Senior Manager Corporate Real Estate Transactions EMEA

• Reports directly to the Senior Director of Global Real Estate, Facilities and Fleet
• is responsible for integrating and delivering effective real estate transactions, project leadership and portfolio management for Baxter’s global office real estate portfolio in EMEA, APAC and the Americas
• Accountable for supporting and accomplishing Baxter’s global real estate strategies
• Value-focused leadership for continual improvement to, and effective implementation of, real estate projects, processes, policies and procedures
• Effective management of critical dates, transactions, and projects
• Outstanding collaboration and integration with real estate collaborators, team members, and providers to optimise Baxter’s global real estate
• Provide global transactional real estate expertise and sound financial management
• Deliver short- and long-term efficiency gains, cost savings, and guidelines for continuous improvement, transformation, and optimization of Baxter’s real properties
• Promote, manage and lead strategy, governance, process/policies/procedures, standards, and operational excellence for worldwide real estate activities
• including regional transactions, project execution, process improvement, governance, operations, resource strategy and management, compliance and reporting of same
• Serves as the transactional real estate expert for offices Globally
• Ensures sound financial evaluation and management which optimizes Baxter’s worldwide property office portfolio
• driving and influencing results in a productive manner
• Identifies, develops and leads collaborator relationships and project teams
• including consultants, contractors, providers and SME’s
• Proactively collaborates with Baxter’s business groups and functions
• Evaluates provider performance and ensures effective real estate operations, transaction management, innovative solutions and performance criteria are being met
• Prioritizes and integrates CRE processes, policies, goals and objectives for collaborators, providers, projects and systems
• Effectively improves Baxter’s real estate through continuous improvement of strategic real estate principles, operating mechanisms, transactions and collaborator interface
• including business groups, property ownership and management, vendors and service partners
• Identifies, manages and leads real property transactional strategies and solutions
• including the acquisition, disposition, lease renewal, restructuring, renegotiation, subleasing, building and land due diligence, research and valuation
• Provides oversight and collaborative support for the real estate capital and expense plan of global real estate projects
• Identifies and accomplishes portfolio optimisation initiatives
• delivering to corporate objectives and real estate goals
• Work with the Global Real Estate Group at Baxter to formulate strategic solutions to effectively manage the real estate portfolio, deliver savings, and support corporate initiatives
• Apply, and act as a source of, guidelines, process, tools, techniques and continuous improvement for real estate transactions, processes, task coordination and portfolio optimization
• Refine and ensure policy compliance
• Develop and improve the role of CRE as a proactive driver of corporate success, collaborator, and shareholder value
• Use the global real estate portfolio, operations, systems, teams, and vendor networks to lead, support, and provide effectively
• Alignment of Global CRE portfolio and processes with business and corporate objectives
• Sourcing strategies and ongoing service evaluation
• improvement of the operational platform, organisational design and delivery model
• Negotiations
• including transactions and vendors (e.g. RFPs, MSAs, SOWs, real estate contracts)
• Technology review and strategic improvement
• Portfolio and workspace optimisation
• effective asset utilisation
• Strategic decisions for the worldwide property holdings, assets and management of same
• including analysis and advisement (financial, organisational, implications, risks/benefits, impacts and operational excellence)
• Strategic relationship management
• including effective communication and presentation skills
• Experience in accomplishing global real estate transactional strategies
• This includes defining operational systems, processes, and tactics for all CRE functional areas
• These support company goals and enhance efficiency and financial outcomes

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Real Estate, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field is required
• Candidates must have 7 to 10 years of global industrial or commercial real estate experience in a corporate environment
• Global Life Science experience preferred
• EMEA experience required
• Previous experience in the development, leadership and execution of global real estate
• including property portfolio management, strategy, transactions, project management and collaborator engagement and leadership
• Able to provide global oversight and expertise to effectively acquire, manage and dispose regional real property assets at strategic and tactical levels
• Understanding of the full life cycle of real estate portfolio and project management
• Effective financial competence and real property asset management and optimisation skills required
• including understanding of GAAP, cash flows, impact to bottom line, capital, operating expense, capital markets, interest rates, investments, currency fluctuations, and fiscal/monetary policies which affect real estate and real estate transactions
• Strong ability to partner across business groups and internal Baxter team members while building effective networks of external providers and resources
• Prior management of enterprise-wide global projects and strong negotiating skills are critical
• Understands how to define, implement and optimize property portfolios and transaction management at the strategic and tactical level
• Ability to lead, direct and motivate others
• managing multiple priorities and many projects across the company
• Real Estate License or related professional designation required

Global Life Science experience preferred

• Competitive total compensation package including base salary and bonus
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance
• Support for Parents
• Continuing Education/ Professional Development
• Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• 2 Days a Year to Volunteer