Corporate Real Estate Manager (Delivery)

About the Company

About the Role

Responsibilities

• ● Collect, sort, categorize, aggregate and identify patterns and differentiating attributes of office spend across functions to influence resourcing decisions and drive economies of scale.
• ● Analyze scope and service provision to standardize service delivery and customer experience.
• ● Collate across geographies or categories to deliver savings, improved terms, fewer vendors, and higher quality products and services.
• ● Supports the development and maintenance of standard Vendor Management operating policies and procedures, tools and templates to ensure compliance and sourcing excellence.
• ● Acts as change agent for any compliance or new policy rollouts, including training and communications to the function.
• ● Ensures CREs adherence to company risk standards.
• ● Liaise with the Equinix CRE Business contract manager, Equinix Legal and the vendor to negotiate and reach agreement on contractual terms and conditions and agreement amendments.
• ● Uses all of appropriate contracting templates.
• ● Uses tools to prove, track and report compliance.
• ● Compiles and manages CRE vendor database (to include key dates, contract status and spend).
• ● Manages communication and vendor management training program for CREW.
• ● Creates high quality and compelling presentations to communicate the Vendor Management priorities and processes.
• ● Constructs action proposals based on analysis of relevant data.
• ● Maintains relationship with Regional Procurement where vendors are shared between Ops and CRE.
• ● Adheres to Equinix Generative AI guidelines in deploying artificial intelligence resources for pattern recognition, workflow enhancement, and other common tasks as a way to augment, and not substitute, the Vendor Managers original work product.
• ● Works with vendors to jointly design, develop, install and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to effectively measure, manage, and visually show the impact and value of the vendors products and services to CRE.
• ● Manages the standard definition and computational methodology of all Procurement KPIs/metrics.

Requirements

• ● Business Savvy: an ability to navigate the diverse cultures, backgrounds, and politics of our diverse global employee base.
• ● Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems with sound judgment, strong interpersonal skills, and collaborative style.
• ● Model our Equinix culture and values, actively encourage the inclusivity, wellness, sustainability, and growth of our employees and operations.
• ● Relationship Management: Build and maintain a high trust team environment.
• ● Communicate openly and authentically.
• ● Establish and maintain successful working relationships with stakeholders, as well as appropriate vendors and corporate client groups.
• ● Partner with counterparts in Finance, General Counsel, and Procurement providing cross-functional representation for CRE.
• ● Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity.
• ● Openness to new and innovative ideas and the ability to manage change.
• ● An ability to make the implicit more explicit, more tangible, or better understood.
• ● To take a big picture approach and consider the ramifications of decisions on various constituencies.
• ● Strong leadership profile, demonstrating self-confidence and enthusiasm, customer service focused.
• ● Intuitive about people; creative about how to identify and implement new approaches to address peoples needs and support the growth and sustainability of the business.