Real Estate Transactions Manager (Ohio)

AEP Service Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AEP Service Corporation seeks a Transaction Manager to oversee real estate acquisitions, dispositions, leases, and renewals from planning through close. You will coordinate due diligence, documentation, and closing requirements while negotiating terms with landlords, sellers, buyers, brokers, and service providers.

You will partner with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders, track schedules and risks, maintain records, and ensure governance and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, project management, or related field preferred; or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in real estate transactions, contracts, finance, or related business functions.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in real estate transactions, contracts, portfolio strategy, or related business functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage acquisitions, dispositions, leases, renewals, and related real estate transactions from planning through execution.
• Coordinate due diligence, valuation inputs, approvals, documentation, and closing requirements.
• Negotiate routine to moderately complex business terms with landlords, sellers, buyers, brokers, and service providers.
• Partner with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders to ensure transaction requirements are met.
• Track schedules, risks, and dependencies to keep transactions on time and within business expectations.
• Maintain transaction records, reporting, and controls to support governance and audit readiness.
• Identify and escape commercial, legal, operational, or timing risks that may affect execution.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office

Transaction tracking tools

Time management

Financial evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, project management, or related field

4+ years of relevant real estate transactions experience

7+ years of real estate transactions/portfolio experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Contracts management software

CRM/Transaction management software

Job description

Responsible for managing assigned real estate transactions from initiation through closeout. Coordinates due diligence, negotiations, approvals, and stakeholder communication to ensure transactions are completed efficiently, compliantly, and in alignment with business needs.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage assigned acquisitions, dispositions, leases, renewals, and related real estate transactions from planning through execution.
• Coordinate due diligence, valuation inputs, approvals, documentation, and closing requirements.
• Negotiate routine to moderately complex business terms with landlords, sellers, buyers, brokers, and service providers.
• Partner with legal, finance, procurement, and business leaders to ensure transaction requirements are met.
• Track schedules, risks, and dependencies to keep transactions on time and within business expectations.
• Maintain transaction records, reporting, and controls to support governance and audit readiness.
• Identify and escape commercial, legal, operational, or timing risks that may affect execution.

Education and Work requirements are listed below:

Transaction Manager (Salary Grade 6)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, project management, or related field preferred; or equivalent experience.
• Experience: Four (4) or more years of relevant experience in real estate transactions, contracts, finance, or related business functions.

Transaction Manager, Sr (Salary Grade 7)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, project management, or related field preferred; or equivalent experience.
• Experience: Seven (7) or more years of relevant experience in real estate transactions, contracts, portfolio strategy, or related business functions.

Other Expectations:

• Demonstrated negotiation, analysis, and stakeholder management skills.
• Working knowledge of transaction processes, contracts, financial evaluation, and document coordination.
• Ability to manage multiple deals and competing deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and transaction tracking tools.

What You’ll Get:

This single vacancy is posted in a range. Please note that Education and/or relevant Experience will be used to determine the appropriate salary and salary grade. In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well‑being of our employees.

Where Putting the Customer First Powers Everything We Do! At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities.

Compensation Data

Compensation Grade: SP20-006

Compensation Range: $74,551.00 - $109,544.00

Physical Demand Level

The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

It is hereby reaffirmed that it is the policy of American Electric Power (AEP) to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in all respects of the employer-employee relationship including recruiting, hiring, upgrading and promotion, conditions and privileges of employment, company sponsored training programs, educational assistance, social and recreational programs, compensation, benefits, transfers, discipline, layoffs and termination of employment to all employees and applicants without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At American Electric Power, we provide more than electricity to our millions of customers - we energize possibilities. We're redefining the future of energy by reducing our carbon footprint, empowering the communities we serve and building an engaged, talented workforce. All while delivering the reliable service our customers expect. It’s an exciting time in the energy industry. Are you ready to be part of it? We’re looking for team members to help create the grid of the future. Learn more about our commitment to creating a supportive, inclusive work culture that values different experiences.