Head of Real Estate Europe and India (EURI)

AECOM; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a Head of Real Estate to strategize and optimize their portfolio in the Greater London area. The role involves overseeing real estate transactions, managing broker relationships, and ensuring compliance with lease terms while maximizing the value of a multi-million dollar portfolio. Candidates should possess strong negotiation skills, strategic thinking, and extensive experience in facility management within complex organizational structures. This role offers flexible hybrid work options and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work options

Access to industry-leading technology

Comprehensive benefits program

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills are essential for this role within a complex organizational structure.
• Strategic thinking to align Real Estate strategy with business goals is crucial.
• Experience managing real estate in a matrix organization facing cultural changes is needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end real estate transactions including acquisitions and renewals.
• Manage relationships with brokers and coordinate RFPs and site selection.
• Oversee lease portfolio performance and compliance with lease terms.

Skills

Strategic thinking and commercial acumen

Strong negotiation and influencing skills

Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication

Job description

Job Description

The Head of Real Estate EURI is accountable for the Real Estate (RE) strategy, management and optimisation of our portfolio within this geography. This critical role will oversee regional Real Estate strategies which are consistent with overall business goals and vison.

Reporting to Sr Director International Real Estate and Facilities Service, you will oversee a team of Real Estate professionals for the region, working closely with regional operational leads to ensure the tactical implementation is fully supported within our local markets.

This role will focus primarily on maximizing the value of AECOM’s EURI portfolio of approximately $45m cost, 60+ locations and 6000+ people, encompassing 550,000 square feet of operating real estate assets while simultaneously optimizing real estate portfolio operating expenses and capital expenditures.

Role Responsibilities

Transaction Management

• Lead end-to-end real estate transactions (acquisitions, dispositions, subleases, renewals, expansions, rightsizing).
• Manage broker relationships and coordinate RFPs, site selection, and market surveys.
• Negotiate business terms to secure favorable outcomes for the corporation.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders (Legal, Finance, HR, Facilities, IT, Business Units) throughout the transaction lifecycle.

Lease Administration & Management

• Oversee lease portfolio performance, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance with lease terms.
• Manage critical dates—renewals, expirations, rent escalations, options.
• Validate and approve landlord billings, rent payments, and CAM reconciliations.
• Work with lease administration systems (e.g., CoStar, TRIRIGA, Manhattan).

Lease Negotiation & Documentation

• Work with Legal to draft, review, and negotiate lease agreements, amendments, SNDAs, estoppels, and other legal documents.
• Ensure agreements meet corporate standards, risk tolerance, and compliance requirements.
• Engage external counsel when needed and manage negotiation strategy.

Vendor & Landlord Relationship Management

• Maintain strong relationships with landlords, brokers, consultants, and vendors.
• Resolve landlord disputes and operational issues related to leases.
• Manage broker agreements and performance metrics.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication
• Advanced knowledge of Facilities Management methods, and processes.
• Working knowledge of Real Estate practice, trends and tools.
• Experience of managing Real Estate within a complex, matrixed organisation facing significant business and cultural change.
• A bias for data-driven decision-making, with experience in using insights to inform priorities and measure success.
• Proven project and programme management experience within Real Estate
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and influence at the highest levels of an organization.

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10141104

Business Line: Geography OH

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: International Support

Career Area: Finance

Work Location Model: Hybrid