Real Estate Portfolio Manager

About Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. 

More about the role

This is an exciting job opportunity for a Real Estate Portfolio Manager, onsite in Gurgaon or Noida office, with Signify.

The Real Estate Portfolio Manager has a regional responsibility for the countries in scope (India sub continent, Middle East, Africa and Turkey) and partners with the businesses to drive portfolio optimization and consolidation, create additional value on our total Real Estate cost.

This role will be responsible for ensuring that Real Estate strategic initiatives are deployed and implemented, in line with strategic and portfolio plans for the businesses and in line with Signify.

Strategy and Portfolio

• Responsible for senior stakeholder alignment in the region to fully understand business and location strategy and translate that into real estate requirements.
• Support development of real estate strategy per asset type and deploy  the same .
• Advises and challenges strategic rationale, space demand, financial implications, liabilities, risks and opportunities.
• Primus inter pares in the region for HoRE. Leads the regional team and ensures balanced project allocation and prioritization for the region aligned with strategic priorities.
• Space management -Analyzing office utilization data, developing space plans, and implementing solutions to ensure the physical environment supports the needs and goals of Signify and its employees.

Transactions

• Reviews 18 months advance lease events on a regular basis and ensures business alignment and execution.
• Responsible for real estate transactions and contract term negotiations in the region for lease renewals, lease acquisitions, disposals and partners with internal and external stakeholders in legal, environmental, tax, finance etc.
• Manages outsourced service providers for transactions in the region.
• Ensures high quality and compliant and auditable transaction process and is primary interface with brokers.

Financial Management

• Responsible for target and meets capital expenditure and P&L targets.
• Prepares financial business cases prior to submission and presentation to investment committee

Facilities and Project Management

• Support team of facility managers, ensuring compliance with HSE/Security standards and promoting a safe and efficient workplace environment across the assigned regional facilities.
• Oversee the execution of real estate projects with the support of facility managers and external suppliers

Subject Matter Expertise Role

• Holds SME role for the domain supporting strategic priorities. In this global SME role, be a consultant supporting across regions in the area of but not limited to workplace, project management, transactions, (use of own) technology, sustainability.

More about you

While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or related; master's degree highly preferred

• 10+ years of corporate real estate experience, portfolio management, facilities management and transactions management in an international environment with distribution/warehouse, manufacturing, office, and R&D sites. Excellent knowledge of lease contracts

• Experience in stakeholder management, account management and managing expectations within a matrix management environment

• Working knowledge of transactions, design, construction management, facilities and property management

• Excellent business and financial acumen and experience in and been responsible for transactions, negotiations and deal-making; negotiation-handling with uncompromising sense of business integrity

• Strong working knowledge of commercial and industrial building systems, including HVAC, electrical distribution, plumbing, fire/life safety systems, building controls, and industrial utilities is preferred

• Knowledge of financial aspects like IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), lease accounting, NPV (Net Present Value) and cash flow; experience with and understanding of decisions impacting P&L and balance sheet

• People management skills creating a performance culture and experience coordinating project teams, preferably in matrix environment; combines result orientation with process focus

Everything we’ll do for you

You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together. 

Come join us, and together we can light up the future.