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Job Summary:

The primary responsibility of the Senior Corporate Real Estate (CRE) Manager, EMEA, is to oversee corporate real estate planning, office build outs, implementation and operations for all offices in their assigned region.   This role includes the management of our emerging Global Centre of Excellence (GCOE) based in Warsaw.

This role will be Warsaw based and report to the Director, CRE EMEA.

Responsibilities:

Planning

• Drives corporate real estate planning, including capacity projection and space allocation

• Advises on strategic space planning to efficiently manage Real Estate portfolio and align corporate real estate goals with broader business objectives

• Maintains an awareness of the evolution of the business to ensure a close connection between broader business objectives and CRE activities 

Operations

• Identifies areas in which to improve processes, systems and overall client satisfaction

• Ensures the regional CRE Ops organization remain in compliance with company processes and policies (in particular: finance, legal, compliance, and risk)

• Manages procurement and vendor management initiatives in conjunction with the Procurement and Legal departments on an ad hoc basis

Business Continuity

• Assumes leadership role for Business Continuity Planning across the region

• Accountable for compliance with HSE regulations regarding statutory and building policies and procedures and works to implement safety and emergency preparedness policies and procedures with staff

People Management

• Provides coaching to a dispersed team

• Honors our culture (the Magic of Equinix and the Operating Norms) and holds others to account for the same

• Provides leadership and guidance to team members, setting clear goals, developing individual capabilities, and providing quarterly and year-end feedback to individual on overall performance

• Actively encourages the inclusivity, wellness and sustainability of the department's activities from the grass roots up

• Servant leadership - service to the team rather than the self.  This leader will be in a position to mentor CRE team members

• Actively encourages inclusivity, wellness and sustainability of the department

Stakeholder Management

• Establishes and maintains successful working relationships with landlords, property managers and corporate real estate management, as well as appropriate vendors and corporate groups

• Collects decision-framing data, in particular data relating to occupancy, ticket responses, spend to date, and cost benchmarking

• Partners with counterparts in IT (End user, Network and AV), Procurement, Security, and Operations, providing the cross-functional representation for CRE in region)

• Accountable for providing cross-functional representation for corporate real estate

• Takes a leadership role in and contributes to Equinix special projects as a representative of the Corporate Development department

Global Centre of Excellence

• Develops targeted office strategy for Vendor Management to drive value from the supply chain

• Provides guidance and coaching to the Centre of Excellence team based in Warsaw

Qualifications:

• Proven years of experience preferred as a facilities or workplace manager within a multi-national company

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management preferred

• IFMA, CoreNet or other relevant industry certification

• Preference given to those that have worked across the EMEA region

• Experience supporting and developing a distributed team is critical to success

• Knowledge of general business management, facilities management, and office support services 

• Ability to independently develop and manage resources and programs 

• Knowledge of business planning, goal setting, and budgeting as well as performance evaluations of employees and oversight of contractors 

• Good project management skills and experience

• Positive, pleasant and customer centric mindset

• Communication skills – timely delivery of professional communications to customers and team members

• Confidence and experience in dealing with senior leadership and respectful and polite to people at all levels

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.