Global Real Estate Strategy Director

Grant Thornton (US); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Senior Director, Real Estate to lead the firm’s global real estate strategy, portfolio, and occupancy programs. The role drives strategy across design, transactions, and financial management of the global lease portfolio, and partners with Workplace Operations on place-based execution.

You will build a new global real estate organization, set design standards, govern data analytics, and oversee external partners to deliver value with a hybrid work model requiring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in real estate, business, architecture/engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of corporate real estate experience, including portfolio strategy 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.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree in real estate, business, architecture/engineering, or related field

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Senior Director, Real Estate to lead the firm’s global real estate strategy, portfolio, and occupancy programs. The role drives strategy across design, transactions, and financial management of the global lease portfolio, and partners with Workplace Operations on place-based execution.

You will build a new global real estate organization, set design standards, govern data analytics, and oversee external partners to deliver value with a hybrid work model requiring