Associate Director - Workplace/Real Estate & Facility

- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Architecture, Facilities, Real Estate or other related discipline

- Broad working knowledge of Workplace and FM with specialist (discipline) knowledge in one area (e.g. Real Estate, Capital Projects)

- 10+ years' experience in Workplace and FM Operations

In this role you will:

- Responsible for the management and delivery of workplace services and infrastructure for the India commercial portfolio, consisting of capability centres, head office and branch offices. Ensuring support and facilitate all business operations.

- The WREF India Lead will serve as the primary liaison with the business units and stakeholders to ensure workplaces support their needs

- Establish and develop key relationships internal and external

- Work closely with key internal partners within Business Unit(s) (e.g. HR, Tech, Procurement etc) to ensure WREF's services are integrated as a part of a joined up, cohesive approach to employee experience.

- Assume full accountability for the delivery of OPEX and CAPEX budgets, ensuring financial acumen across their organisation and responsibility for budget delivery with their reporting WREF Business Unit and Site Leads.

- In regard to real-estate transactions, this role will support the regional delivery team and partners to define business requirements, assess site conditions and operationalise sites once acquired.

- Manage established contract governance processes and structures to ensure value and delivery in the Service provider contracts, and to ensure effective risk management controls are in place.

- Accountable for the prioritization and delivery of a program of capital projects (including minor works, infrastructure, business driven and energy projects) for assigned Business Unit(s), working closely with the Real Estate and Capital CoE and managing 3rd party project managers.

- Lead the onboarding of new sites into WREF management, ensuring thorough due diligence, solution development and service integration.

- Validate performance reporting and to ensure appropriate metrics are delivered by the service providers to key internal stakeholders.