Global Real Estate Strategy Director

Grant Thornton (US); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 188,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Senior Director, Real Estate to lead the firm's global real estate strategy, portfolio, and occupancy framework. The role drives workplace design standards and coordinates with Workplace Operations, Finance, and regional teams to align with growth and integration.

The candidate will build a new global real estate organization, oversee transactions and design/construction partners, and advance data analytics to support capital decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in real estate, business, architecture/engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of corporate real estate experience, including portfolio strategy and transactions oversight.
• Experience leading a partner-led delivery model (brokerage, design, and construction vendors).
• Strong financial acumen, including capital planning and project economics.
• Proven ability to provide strategic oversight of a global or multi-country portfolio.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and executive-communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global real estate strategy, portfolio plan, and occupancy strategy aligned to firm growth and integration.
• Build and lead a new global real estate organization with the capabilities, operating model, and regional reach required to support a changing portfolio driven by global acquisitions and organic growth.
• Set workplace design standards and guardrails applied across the portfolio.
• Establish real estate governance, data, and analytics to support capital and occupancy decisions.
• Continuously evaluate and propose automation and AI adoption opportunities within real estate and design & construction processes.
• Own the transactions strategy and oversee execution through the firm's appointed real estate transactions partner.
• Oversee external design & construction partner relationships, ensuring best-in-class outcomes with fees appropriately charged to capital projects.
• Manage an outsource provider- and partner-first delivery model, holding partners accountable to performance and service standards.
• Own the global design standards, recommending changes in office designs and layouts in accordance with business needs.
• Ensure projects are delivered on scope, schedule, and budget, and to firm design standards.
• Establish metrics and targets for efficiency, cost, and customer satisfaction across the real estate portfolio.
• Build, monitor, and act on reports and dashboards that track performance against targets.
• Use data-driven insights to inform decisions and demonstrate value to firm leadership.
• Partner with Workplace Operations on place-based execution and collaborate with Finance on capital planning and project economics.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Global portfolio oversight

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Senior Director, Real Estate to lead the firm's global real estate strategy, portfolio, and occupancy framework. The role drives workplace design standards and coordinates with Workplace Operations, Finance, and regional teams to align with growth and integration.

The candidate will build a new global real estate organization, oversee transactions and design/construction partners, and advance data analytics to support capital decisions.