Country Real Estate Manager

**Country Real Estate Manager**:
**At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions. Write the next chapter of your ABB story.**:
**This position reports to**:
Country Holding Officer

**Your role and responsibilities**:
Real Estate function’s objective is to effectively support ABB’s business activities by securing the most efficient and profitable use of ABB’s real estate facilities/assets. This requires local, professional real estate expertise, to ensure optimum results across all Business Areas and Divisions. As Real Estate Manager you will work within a collaborative environment in the head office in Montreal, Canada, reporting directly to the Country Holding Officer and functionally to the Electrification Global Real Estate Manager. - Work with all Business Areas and Divisions to establish a Real Estate strategy and Masterplan aligned with the business strategy of ABB’s core operations - Development of medium and long term, strategic real estate plans, enhancing current and future facility requirements. Incorporating ABB’s continued operational flexibility. Consolidating dispersed locations with co-location concepts where possible and reducing / eliminating vacancies - Leading a team of 10+ ABB real estate professionals and supported by our service providers. - Manage the financial performance of the function to meet or exceed committed performance level (e.g. budgets and forecasts). Ensure financial accountability of the real estate function including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow. Ensure accountabilities for all assets under Real Estate responsibility - Lead and execute real estate transaction, lease administration and development projects - Establish and regularly update and report the country’s detailed real estate inventory of all ABB owned, leased sites, plots of land, offices, manufacturing, warehouses, storage, parking, and other facilities - Carefully benchmark, rationalize and regularly report the related real estate occupancy costs for every facility. Understand and communicate occupancy charges to the occupying Divisions - Lead all investments in owned or leased facilities. Oversee that such investments are delivered in accordance with Company Policy and formal approval process with the Capital Investment tool - Establish an excellent working relationship for mutual trust and respect with ABB’s various Divisions and the countries’ management to pro-actively support its operational achievements and business targets - Implement a functional Real Estate organization in line with the ABB Way operating model and governance structure. - Manage the Real Estate program with focus on Space Efficiency, Energy Efficiency projects through the Green Real Estate Program, Mergers / Acquisitions and Optimized facility services related the Canadian footprint with direct and subcontract employees ensuring a safe and efficient working environment - Engage with the North America countries to align and simplify operations and processes - Manage the financial performance of the real estate function and benchmark, rationalize, and report the occupancy costs for every facility - Acting as prime point of contact for local authorities for regulatory and compliance purpose related to Real Estate - Ensures (with HR Partner support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates, and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies - Living ABB’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid

**Qualifications for the role**:

- Minimum 10 years of professional real estate experience in a corporate or global real estate environment with solid understanding of facility management and commercial / industrial real estate and experience with challenged or distressed environmental properties
- Master’s degree in real estate, engineering, business, or related field
- Aptitude to develop, lead and coach a distributed workforce within a functional organization and demonstrated effective change management leadership
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively communicate with stakeholders at country and global levels, architects, engineers, developers, commercial brokers, contractors, and others
- Ability to energize Real Estate staff and standardize and harmonize facility services and levels
- Strong focus and leadership in HSE practices within all real estate facility/project activities
- Excellent negotiating and presentation skills and knowledge of financial analysis (discounted cash flow and P&L)
- Familiarity with construction systems and building design to understand