Director Workplace Design, PM, Systems & Analytics

Cox Enterprises; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Enterprises seeks a Director, Real Estate to lead workplace strategy, interior design, construction project management, technology, and data analytics across its portfolio. This enterprise role focuses on optimizing spaces to support growth, productivity, and efficient operations while controlling costs.

The ideal candidate will be an industry-recognized leader with executive presence, strong influence skills, and the ability to build partnerships across diverse stakeholders, balancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10+ years’ experience (or equivalent combinations).
• Demonstrated leadership in managing complex real estate/facilities programs.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management across executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert on workplace strategy, space planning, design, interiors construction, and occupancy analytics.
• Establish enterprise standards, governance, and project management processes.
• Lead cross-functional collaborations to align real estate investments with enterprise objectives.
• Direct multi-discipline project delivery across diverse environments (office, industrial, retail).
• Develop capital plans and investment recommendations for real estate decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Facilities/Real estate

Microsoft Office

CAD

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 10+ years experience

Tools

CAD

Bluebeam

Job description

Company

Cox Enterprises

Job Family Group

Facilities

Job Profile

Director, Real Estate

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $134,900.00 - $224,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Director, Workplace Strategy, Delivery & Systems serves as the enterprise leader responsible for shaping, planning, delivering, and optimizing physical environments across our portfolio companies. Leveraging their deep expertise, the Director leads the workplace strategy, interior design and construction project management, workplace technology, and related data analytics across the portfolio. They will ensure the company’s spaces support business growth, employee productivity, and efficient operations while promoting effective space utilization, avoiding unnecessary costs, and guiding sound investments in the company’s physical environment.

The ideal candidate is an industry-recognized leader with exceptional influence skills, executive presence, and the ability to build strong partnerships across diverse stakeholders.

As a trusted advisor to senior leadership and portfolio company stakeholders, the Director partners across business functions to understand organizational goals and recommend scalable, right-size solutions. The role balances enterprise standards with the distinct needs, capabilities, and scale of each portfolio company to improve operational and financial outcomes

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert on workplace strategy, space planning, design, interiors construction, workplace technology, and occupancy management analytics.


• Establish and promote enterprise service standards, performance metrics, governance, reporting frameworks, and project management processes.


• Drive continuous improvement through process optimization, standardization, technology adoption, and performance measurement.


• Partner with business leaders to understand growth plans, operational requirements, workforce strategies, customer experience objectives, and organizational priorities; translate them into practical, scalable solutions tailored to each operating company’s size, maturity, complexity, and business needs to optimize operational and financial results.


• Establish enterprise standards, design guidelines, governance frameworks, and best practices informed by industry trends, emerging workplace concepts, technology innovations, and optimized project delivery practices.


• Develop strategic recommendations that align real estate investments, workplace initiatives, and technology capabilities with enterprise objectives.


• Lead the planning, design, and execution of complex projects across office, industrial, warehouse, retail, mixed-use, and other commercial environments. This includes leading requirements discovery, stakeholder interviews, concept development, furniture solutions, test fits, and project execution, where appropriate.


• Develop capital plans, business cases, and investment recommendations that support strategic and optimized real estate decisions. Present recommendations, business cases, project updates, risks, portfolio analyses, and strategic opportunities to senior leadership.


• Develop a deep understanding of individual business objectives, operational needs, workforce requirements, and customer-facing priorities across a variety of portfolio companies and investments


• Build strong cross-functional partnerships and lead through influence across Real Estate, Facilities, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Technology, Human Resources, Security, Communications and other stakeholder groups.


• Direct architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, furniture vendors, and external partners through all phases of project delivery. Develop and maintain strategic relationships with consultants, design firms, contractors, and other industry partners.


• Support acquisitions, divestitures, relocations, consolidations, and transformation initiatives through strategic project leadership and execution.


• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and aligned with operational and business objectives.


• Serve as the business owner and strategic leader for real estate technology platforms, leading system strategy, governance, administration, standards, data quality, reporting consistency, floor plan and occupancy data management, portfolio analytics, and continuous optimization.


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• Partner with the technology organization to develop dashboards, reporting tools, and workplace analytics that support data-driven decision-making, portfolio optimization, utilization and space planning, and investment recommendations.


• Build, develop, and lead high-performing internal and cross-functional teams and external partners across workplace strategy, project management, design, workplace systems, and portfolio analytics to deliver business results.


• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, customer service, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 8 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years’ experience in a related field; or 14 years’ experience in a related field


• 5+ years’ experience in a management or leadership role


• Requires strong knowledge of Microsoft tools, CAD, Bluebeam


• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, presentation and collaboration skills, with strategic thinking, executive presence, business acumen, and influence needed to work effectively across the organization


• Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.


• Experience managing complex capital projects, workplace portfolios, and enterprise workplace programs.


• Strong financial acumen and experience developing capital plans, budgets, business cases, and investment recommendations.


• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into measurable business outcomes.


• Demonstrated expertise leading office, industrial, warehouse, retail, or similar commercial environment initiatives.


• Strong understanding of workplace strategy, project delivery, construction management, portfolio analytics, occupancy planning and operational requirements.

Preferred

• Experience supporting multiple business units, operating companies, or complex multi-brand organizations.


• Proven ability to influence executive leaders and build alignment across highly matrixed organizations.


• Experience leading workplace technology, facilities management, occupancy management, IWMS, CAFM, or related enterprise platforms.


• Professional certifications such as PMP

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Us

As our primary divisions Cox Automotive and Cox Communications drive new waves of innovation, Cox Enterprises is entering spaces like cleantech, healthcare, esports and more. We’re a family business guided by a legacy of bold innovation that’s driven by those who want to make their mark. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.