Global Real Estate & FM Strategy Director

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SINGAPORE PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric Singapore Pte Ltd. seeks a Global Real Estate Director to lead the worldwide Real Estate strategy within the Global Supply Chain, spanning offices, plants, warehouses and labs.

This role emphasizes governance, data-driven decisions, and sustainability across a multinational footprint. You will partner with Corporate Functions, Regional Operations, SERE domains, and GSC leadership to deliver a resilient, efficient, and sustainable real estate portfolio aligned with strategic

Qualifications

• Experience in global Real Estate, Facility Management, or related fields across a multi site, international environment.
• Knowledge of integrated facility management (IFM), service delivery models, and vendor governance.
• Strong understanding of real estate transactions (acquisitions, renewals, disposals) and portfolio optimization.
• Experience in climate and nature capital risk frameworks (TCFD, TNFD, scenario analysis), corporate decarbonization pathways, and sustainability disclosure (CSRD, GHG Protocol, SBTi).
• Proficiency in FM/RE systems, workplace management tools, financial modeling, and CapEx/Opex planning.
• Professional certifications such as IFMA (CFM), LEED AP, and GARP SCR preferred.
• Degree in Real Estate, Facility Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business or related discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define the global Real Estate strategy with Corporate RE, Industrialization, and GSC partners.
• Harmonize and transparency of end-to-end property portfolio (offices, plants, warehouses, labs), including data quality, contracts, KPIs, and governance.
• Oversee Real Estate decisions across GSC property portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic, financial, and operational priorities.
• Deliver analytics and insights (scenario planning, location strategy, make vs lease, consolidations, climate and nature scenario) to enable informed decisions on productivity and footprint evolution.
• Strengthen governance frameworks to ensure alignment between Corporate, Regional, and SERE teams.
• Build global IFM/FM capability through benchmarking, cost transparency, and data driven identification of outliers.
• Standardize and elevate FM practices globally, such as promoting convergence/sharing of regional best practices in operating model and innovation.
• Embed sustainability FM practices and sustainable vendor selection criteria into the global FM model.
• Partner with Corporate Security, Regional FM, and Indirect Procurement on governance of guarding, access control, CCTV, visitor management, and incident response.
• Global governance processes: KPIs, SLAs, vendor reviews, risk assessments, and escalation protocols.
• Integration of physical security standards within IFM execution models.
• Alignment with global resilience requirements and internal/external audit expectations.
• Integrate climate risk assessment and adaptation planning into site strategy, footprint decisions and CapEx planning.
• Support Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction by strengthening governance of Real Estate and Facility Management data, spending, and performance monitoring.
• Ensure sustainability standards (LEED, BREEAM, WELL) are applied in new tertiary buildings, major refurbishments, and acquisitions.
• Own the RE/FM contribution to the Sustainability Cockpit and to external disclosure frameworks (CSRD, TCFD, TNFD).
• Lead or participate in transversal topics and initiatives across Real Estate, FM, SERE, Digital, Sustainability, and GSC strategy.
• Drive SERE Technical Debt Reduction initiatives (assets, systems, digitization).
• Support Schneider Electric’s Digital transformation, AI use cases, Sustainability Cockpit, and data driven decision tools.
• Support Winning Plan reporting, and coordination of steering committees.
• Act as the key global interface between GSC and Corporate Functions on Real Estate, FM, and Physical Security topics.
• Drive organizational alignment by bridging strategic, policy, and operational layers across Corporate, Regional, and Site teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders, navigate matrix structures, and resolve cross functional misalignments.

Skills

Global Real Estate

Facility Management

IFM

Vendor governance

Real estate transactions

Climate risk

Sustainability disclosure

Education

Degree in Real Estate, Facility Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business or related discipline preferred

Tools

FM/RE systems

Workplace management tools

Financial modeling

CapEx/Opex planning

Job description

Schneider Electric Singapore Pte Ltd. seeks a Global Real Estate Director to lead the worldwide Real Estate strategy within the Global Supply Chain, spanning offices, plants, warehouses and labs.

This role emphasizes governance, data-driven decisions, and sustainability across a multinational footprint. You will partner with Corporate Functions, Regional Operations, SERE domains, and GSC leadership to deliver a resilient, efficient, and sustainable real estate portfolio aligned with strategic