Manager, Global Transactions , Global Portfolio Strategy & Transactions (GPST)
Amazon.com
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) organization is responsible for creating the spaces that inspire Amazonians to make history. The globally diverse team manages Amazon’s corporate offices in more than 60 countries. GREF provides real estate transactions expertise, business partnering, space and occupancy planning, design and construction, capital investment program management, facility maintenance, and operations all contributing to the employee experience and leveraging places and programs to enable culture to thrive at Amazon. Within GREF, the Global Portfolio Strategy & Transactions (GPST) team drives global insights and initiatives as a center of expertise to our regional teams in strategizing and planning our corporate real estate portfolio at Amazon.
As a member of the GREF team overseeing corporate office space – this position will report to the Global Transactions Lead and support driving global consistency across the regional Transactions teams. This role requires a variety of skill sets, including transaction management, portfolio strategy, project management, and is a leadership role overseeing a vendor management team. We seek an experienced leader who demonstrates proven success in a fast-paced, matrixed real estate organization, and can deliver a large volume of complex projects simultaneously.
The successful candidate will operate as a trusted advisor to business leaders, and partner with Legal, Finance, and other Amazon advisory teams. They will demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain relationships with integrated vendor partners and be comfortable operating on both strategic and tactical levels, while acting as an internal ambassador, educator, analyst, and solutions architect.
The ideal candidate is an experienced, vibrant, and engaging professional who is customer-obsessed and will excel within an entrepreneurial culture. They will have an ownership mentality, providing expertise, vision, leadership, and exceptional communication skills. They are an authentic leader, who balances the need for effective delivery with the need to be accessible, build relationships, develop talent, and demonstrate self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
The role is based in Seattle but can include up to 10% travel time per year.
Key job responsibilities
• Leverage emerging technologies and automation to simplify and streamline the transaction management lifecycle.
• Deliver and maintain global governance, processes, and frameworks to ensure consistency and efficiency in executing transactions across regions (accounting for local nuances).
• Collaborate with other GREF leaders to define essential lease terms (must-haves) and desirable terms (nice-to-haves), ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
• Own global reporting (including Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews) to identify trends and areas of opportunities; provide insights and recommendations to leadership to enhance performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain ownership of key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the effectiveness of the program; identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or roadblocks that arise during program execution.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of multiple, concurrent initiatives, ensuring deliverables are completed successfully and on time.
• Facilitate status meetings with project teams, key stakeholders, and GREF leadership to communicate progress, address issues, and make data-driven decisions.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, end-users, policy teams, and data/analytics groups.
• Implement agile and hybrid delivery methodologies to prioritize, resource, and deliver initiatives in a timely and cost-effective manner and foster collaboration, adaptability, and customer-centricity.
As a member of the GREF team overseeing corporate office space – this position will report to the Global Transactions Lead and support driving global consistency across the regional Transactions teams. This role requires a variety of skill sets, including transaction management, portfolio strategy, project management, and is a leadership role overseeing a vendor management team. We seek an experienced leader who demonstrates proven success in a fast-paced, matrixed real estate organization, and can deliver a large volume of complex projects simultaneously.
The successful candidate will operate as a trusted advisor to business leaders, and partner with Legal, Finance, and other Amazon advisory teams. They will demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain relationships with integrated vendor partners and be comfortable operating on both strategic and tactical levels, while acting as an internal ambassador, educator, analyst, and solutions architect.
The ideal candidate is an experienced, vibrant, and engaging professional who is customer-obsessed and will excel within an entrepreneurial culture. They will have an ownership mentality, providing expertise, vision, leadership, and exceptional communication skills. They are an authentic leader, who balances the need for effective delivery with the need to be accessible, build relationships, develop talent, and demonstrate self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
The role is based in Seattle but can include up to 10% travel time per year.
Key job responsibilities
• Leverage emerging technologies and automation to simplify and streamline the transaction management lifecycle.
• Deliver and maintain global governance, processes, and frameworks to ensure consistency and efficiency in executing transactions across regions (accounting for local nuances).
• Collaborate with other GREF leaders to define essential lease terms (must-haves) and desirable terms (nice-to-haves), ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
• Own global reporting (including Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews) to identify trends and areas of opportunities; provide insights and recommendations to leadership to enhance performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain ownership of key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the effectiveness of the program; identify, analyze, and resolve complex problems or roadblocks that arise during program execution.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of multiple, concurrent initiatives, ensuring deliverables are completed successfully and on time.
• Facilitate status meetings with project teams, key stakeholders, and GREF leadership to communicate progress, address issues, and make data-driven decisions.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, end-users, policy teams, and data/analytics groups.
• Implement agile and hybrid delivery methodologies to prioritize, resource, and deliver initiatives in a timely and cost-effective manner and foster collaboration, adaptability, and customer-centricity.
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