Lab Consolidation & Relocation Program Lead

Nokia Corporation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia is seeking a Real Estate Program Manager to lead lab consolidation and relocation across multiple sites. You will align Business, R&D IT, Real Estate, Digital Office, Engineering, and local delivery teams to ensure ownership and timely decisions.

This role emphasizes governance, risk management, and executive reporting, with technical design remaining with specialists. You will drive integrated plans, advance milestones, and coordinate with stakeholders to maintain operational continuity.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex programs in corporate real estate, construction, facilities, technology, engineering, or laboratory environments.
• Proven ability coordinating multi-site programs with interdependent schedules, workstreams, stakeholders, risks, and executive decision points.
• Strong knowledge of governance, integrated planning, schedule management, risk management, change management, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to establish clear ownership, drive action, and elevate issues constructively.
• Experience working across business, real estate, IT, engineering, infrastructure, and local delivery teams.
• Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic program view with tracking detailed dependencies and delivery commitments.
• Ability to communicate and present credibly to senior executives and governance forums.
• Familiarity with lease events, site exits, reinstatement obligations, relocations, and lab transitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of lab consolidation and relocation program strategy.
• Establish program governance, scope, workstreams, named owners, decision points, reporting requirements, and handover processes.
• Maintain an integrated program view of site exits, lease dates, and transitions.
• Coordinate with diverse teams to define program requirements, priorities, and constraints.
• Lead program-level coordination across multiple projects with clear plans and milestones.
• Drive follow-up across workstreams and escalate delays or incomplete inputs.
• Coordinate relocation planning with lab optimization and cloudification activities.
• Route technical judgments to relevant specialists and track decisions to closure.
• Own the program risk-management workflow and escalation paths.
• Present program status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional coordination

Change management

Job description

Nokia is seeking a Real Estate Program Manager to lead lab consolidation and relocation across multiple sites. You will align Business, R&D IT, Real Estate, Digital Office, Engineering, and local delivery teams to ensure ownership and timely decisions.

This role emphasizes governance, risk management, and executive reporting, with technical design remaining with specialists. You will drive integrated plans, advance milestones, and coordinate with stakeholders to maintain operational continuity.