Regional Real Estate & Facilities Manager

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Overview of Company & Role:
ALS Limited is a publicly listed laboratory-based testing services company that provides a diversified line of independent analytical services to a range of customers in pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, environmental, food, lubricants, and minerals industries. Its diverse laboratories perform routine and specialty analytical testing for compliance, safety, certification, discovery, and verification purposes. ALS employs 19,000+ staff across 70+ countries globally. Owing to the best-in-class offering, the company has consistently outperformed the industry and has grown annual revenue to ~$2.4B AUD through acquisitions and organic expansions. The company is focused on initiatives to improve Total Shareholder Return through operational excellence, which includes strengthening Procurement, Supply Chain, Real Estate, and related functions.
As the Regional Real Estate & Facility Manger, you will be responsible for managing all leased and owned ALS facilities within an assigned region. This includes providing oversight, guidance, and assisting with execution for all real estate transactions, while also leading the development and implementation of new strategies and capabilities focused on optimized real estate and facilities cost, value, and improved use of capital.
The role will be based in the assigned region and will support all business streams within the region. The role will primarily focus on Europe and Africa region but will assist with Asia-Pacific and Australia regions as needed. The role directly reports to the Global Real & Facilities Director and routinely interacts with business leadership, procurement, operations, sustainability, safety, finance, and other management personnel.
General Responsibilities:
· With support of the Global Real Estate and Facilities Management Director, you will serve as the primary point of contact within the region for the business to request any new real estate leases, lease renewals, purchases, or sales, and provide advice for all company real estate needs and contract terms and price negotiations, including day-to-day lease management activities, enforcing terms, and dispute resolution.
· Develop relationships with key personnel in ALS regional operations that can support your function, as well as with Landlords, outside brokers, and other key stakeholders.
· Implement ALS Real Estate & Facility Management Policies & Procedures in the region, including providing training when necessary.
· Evaluate and action real estate project initiation forms sent in by the business requesting support from the real estate and facilities management function.
· Utilize the company’s lease and facility management software to enhance centralized management, tracking, reporting and contractual life-cycle management for all facility leases, while also supporting the company’s need for sustainability statistics (energy, waste, space, etc.).
· Expand the company’s ability to seamless integrate and execute real estate operations and transactions globally through approved agreements with third-party service partner(s) that will represent the company on transactions as needed.
· With support of outside brokers, lead and support sale-and-leaseback transactions for company owned real estate assets as needed that maximizes value, while protecting future cost structure.
· Assess and evaluate all facilities in region to ensure we are optimizing existing leased and owned space, minimizing excess space, maximining ROCE, planning for future expansions when necessary.
· Conduct regular benchmarks to ensure the efficiency and competitiveness of our Real estate portfolio and for use when guiding others in the organization on transaction pricing.
· Represent ALS at real estate property sale, lease, and purchase showings.
· Evaluate and implement strategies for property tax reduction for new and existing facilities.
· Coordinate with company’s Sustainability function to ensure the real estate and facilities function is supporting related initiatives for environmental impact reduction, employee wellbeing, safety and security, and optimizing facility economics.
· Work with business leaders, procurement, and sustainability function to develop a program for managing and reducing facility related costs, including Energy, Utilities, Maintenance, Cleaning, and Waste Removal.
· Maintain a relationship with limited architect and design companies within the region to assist with leveraging cost for new builds and improvements. Coordinate with Regional Procurement team to provide contractual support for evaluating, contracting and project management of any new construction or refurbishment project.
· Achieve respective Real Estate & Facilities KPIs and achieve cost savings through strategies and efforts.
· Follow and promote the company’s health, safety and sustainability requirements and culture.
· Interface with the Global Real Estate & Facilities Director and other functions for support when needed.
Skills and Behaviors:
· Core Competencies – Operations & Maintenance, Project Management, Communication, Performance & Quality, Occupancy & Human Factors, Real Estate, Risk Management, and Sustainability.
· Strong analytical, evaluation, and critical thinking skills.
· Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot problems, resolve conflicts and set direction.
· Strategic and innovative mindset that has a broad view of the overall objective but takes a practical and hands-on approach to achieving the tasks needed to build support for and implement the strategy.
· Exceptional communication and presentation skills along with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, including executive leadership team.
· Fluent verbal and written communication skills in Czech and English; additional European language capabilities are considered an asset.
· Naturally connects and builds relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence, receives feedback well.
· The ability to balance the desire/need for broad change with an understanding of how much change the organization is capable of handling, to create realistic goals and implementation plans that are achievable and successful.
· Comfortable working in a matrixed organization with a variety of stakeholders at various levels in the organization.
· History of delivering cost savings though all phases of facility management.
· Advanced Computer Skills, with ability to create evaluations, summaries, and presentations using Project Management, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams.
Experience and Qualifications:
· Minimum of 7-10 years of corporate real estate experience in country or regional leadership roles.
· BA or BS degree in Business, Real Estate, Operations, or related field is preferred.
· Certification (i.e., FMP or Continuing Education in Facility Management) is preferred.
· Strong knowledge of real estate and facility management processes.
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