Associate Director of Real Estate

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What you’ll be doing…

As the Associate Director of Real Estate you will be responsible for providing business operations support for Global Real Estate Facility Operations, including implementing and driving strategies to improve the management of the Operations Team with a focus on Facilities Maintenance, Infrastructure, and operating

Budget.

In this role you will be partnering with members of the Global Real Estate Team, Strategic Partners, Vendor Base, Sourcing, EH&S, Risk Management, Finance and Legal Teams to evaluate and address facilities operations driven projects. Providing oversight of financial tracking and results for Facility Operations; Expense and input on the Capital Program. You will work with field teams and vendors while applying experience to interpret and manage contracts, problem solve and drive results. Serving as the operations lead for your region, you will need to have a customer service mindset, be process oriented, be self-motivated, and possess strong leadership capabilities.

• Providing support and oversight of the Preventative and Reactive Maintenance Program.

• Overseeing the management workforce to manage complex tasks and routinely use non-standard procedures to resolve issues. 

• Managing teams (internal and external) performance for impacted geographies.

• Planning, coordinating, implementing and managing (proactively and reactively) responses to disasters both natural and man-made (This may require personal involvement.) 

• Ensuring accuracy, root cause, and remediation of Abnormal Event Reporting. 

• Overseeing purchase order creation and payment processing using your knowledge of corporate payable systems.

• Guiding team, peers and management on ways to improve processes (based on business process gaps).

• Planning, coordinating, implementing and tracking multiple projects simultaneously with a focus on expense tracking and reduction.

• Developing and delivering Executive Level Reporting on targets and results including maintaining status reports, action items, and due dates for facilities service level agreements.

• Working with members of the field teams, legal teams, and government agencies to ensure alignment regarding code and compliance. 

• Ensuring compliance with Global Real Estate and corporate business requirements. 

• Ensuring all projects are conducted using quality principles and appropriate development methodologies. 

• Preparing executive level documentation and presentations as needed.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience. 

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience managing corporate facilities from an operational, facility maintenance, project management, and planning, transactions, and/or infrastructure experience.

• Experience managing a team.

• Experience working with third party vendors that focus on areas such as electrical engineering, HVAC, plumbing, and other building maintenance areas.

• Experience managing and balancing budgets.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time. 

• A valid driver’s license

Even better if you have one or more of the following: 

• A degree in engineering, real estate, business, or related field.

• Experience managing other teams indirectly totaling at least 20 team members.

• Project management experience around the construction and facilities maintenance field.

• Experience in building management systems.

• Knowledge of facilities maintenance and capital infrastructure.

• Knowledge of business operational process and procedure.

• Great communication skills at all levels - both verbal and written.

• Google Suite skills.

• Analytical and presentation skills.

• Knowledge of financial systems.

• Awareness of routine corporate quality assurance and audit procedures.

• Public Sector Account and/or Partnership experience.

• Knowledge of Government Contracts and subcontracting principles.

• Knowledge of EH&S Policies and Emergency Response tactics.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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