Job Description
DESCRIPTION
The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) organization is looking for a leader with an urban planning background to develop global, regional, and city specific portfolio strategies. GREF is responsible for Amazon’s corporate office portfolio, 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 Strategy team creates real estate strategies for Amazon’s corporate office footprint and works with both internal and external stakeholders to manage execution globally. This team works closely with GREF’s Occopancy Planning, Space Planning, Transaction, Product, and Tech teams, as well as regional portfolio managers.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to create and own the global strategy for GREF’s real estate portfolio. You will work closely with key departments within GREF and organizations across Amazon to develop and determine overall global portfolio priorities. You will work closely with the regional strategy teams to understand local priorities and opportunities to inform the overall global vision. This high visibility role will impact the success of the GREF organization and directly impact business partners across the company. The position requires strategic thinking, an urban planning background, data-driven decision making, a customer centric mindset, executive presence, and strong written and verbal communication skills.
A successful candidate for this role will have deep urban planning knowledge and will be highly strategic, translating complex planning inputs into actionable plans. A track record of delivering results in a fast paced, dynamic environment is a must. Being self-driven, adaptable and able to manage multiple priorities is a key to success.
Key job responsibilities
• Devise real estate portfolio strategy aligned with business growth and market dynamics
• Lead strategic analyses for current and future space needs to help inform site selection (expansions and reductions) considering city infastructure, labor markets, transit, sustainability efforets, etc.
• Help define key KPIs for the global portfolio strategy and regional strategy teams
• Working closely with regional teams to ensure global priorities and strategies are leveraged and adopted
• Work cross-functionally with key partner teams to inform and evolve the global vision
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years of urban planning, real estate strategy, or location strategy – ideally in a fast-scaling organization.
- 12+ years using complex data sets and metrics to inform strategies
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross functional teams or equivalent
- Experience in strategic thinking about business, enterprise software products, and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent
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