Real Estate Lead - India and Nepal

Job Title: Real Estate Lead - India and Nepal

Location: Mumbai HO

Req ID: R-1168514

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The role will be responsible to manage Unilever’s real estate portfolio in India + Nepal (and any relevant geography that the business needs to engage in). Our real estate portfolio includes Offices, Supply Chain – land, factories and warehouses, and other asset classes. This role is part of the Global Real Estate team and would report into the RE Lead for India and Nepal. It is a senior role in Unilever, where this role would be instrumental in enabling us to respond to changing business needs, minimising the costs and taking opportunities to maximize value while balancing risks. We are looking for a team player with leadership qualities of owner’s mindset, who is self-driven, and who is excited by new challenges.

Scope includes:

• Office, Residential, Land, Supply Chain, R&D, Retail and others. Logistics and Divestment of freehold assets will be a key focus for this role.
• Owned, leased and 3P managed sites are within the scope of this role.
• Transactions, including but not limited to, acquisitions (buy, lease, built-to-suit), divestments (sale, lease exits), and other portfolio related activities (such as, renewals, rental etc.).
• Role is supported by an established 3P global supplier though transactions may be delivered without the 3P support.
• Ensure that Unilever’s governance and policies are adhered to.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Understand business units’ plans, space demands and real estate market trends and provide thought leadership in strategy sessions with business units to drive the best solutions considering all relevant occupancy scenarios.
• Proactively manage occupancy costs by understanding business units’ demands, market trends, hybrid ways of working, and space planning requirements to implement the best occupancy strategies and commercial options for the business (including sale/lease backs, adjustments of rent to market, etc.).
• Drive the Logistics Real Estate strategy aligned with the global guidelines and governance in place and drive wider support for the Supply Chain real estate portfolio.
• Evaluate the optimal balance of leased and owned facilities through financial analyses of alternative lease and ownership strategies, based on agreed assumptions and accounting criteria.
• Prepare comprehensive business cases that will be utilized to obtain consensus and approval from Business Units and Senior Management.
• Drive freehold divestments and acquisitions and any business activities (such as, M&A, separation).
• As required, step-in to manage other aspects of the real estate portfolio.

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS

Necessary Experience & Qualifications 

• Relevant Degree or equivalent experience in real estate transactions career.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (oral and written), advanced Excel skills, presentation packages (PowerPoint), interrogating databases (systems and web-based systems). Detail oriented and be able to look at the big picture and understand the business plans and trends.
• Experience in the engagement of key, senior level stakeholders, along with proven ability to influence and manage relationships with those stakeholders.
• Be able to have a high-level view and roll-up the sleeves to do the transactions themselves.
• Significant experience in taking divergent pieces of information, crafting clear, concise business plans and recommendations, and then land these recommendations to the business stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen required to review strategic plans and scenarios.
• The ability to work a-synchronically with diverse groups.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications 

• 12+ years of experience.
• Experience driving change through a matrixed, complex organization.
• Experience leading cross functional teams charged with creating and implementing operational methods that are vastly different from current methods.

• Storyteller who is confident with leading presentations and landing a narrative with facts backing the information.
• Agile advocate who has embraced agile project delivery and agile working.

• Fluent spoken and written English. Portuguese, Spanish, Other languages would be an advantage. 

SKILLS

• Real Estate (RE) industry knowledge including the following:
  • Best practices;
  • Contracting methods;
  • Service Level Agreement methodologies;
  • Strengths and weaknesses of third-party delivery models;
  • Key global, and regional service providers, and strengths and weaknesses of those providers;
  • Real Estate transactions.
• Previous experience managing a regional lease administration program.
• Previous experience leading a strategic real estate portfolio planning program, and successful experience tying corporate real estate objectives to business objectives.
• Previous experience with Office portfolio, Logistics and Industrial projects, including supporting on the strategy stage of the projects.
• Ability to manage suppliers, ensuring the Services delivered by Strategic Partners meet the cost and service level expectations and requirements of the Unilever business.  Experience in developing Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and managing them across geographic regions.
• Experience of working regionally, bringing understanding and insight into the needs of other regions to the development of these service operations.
• Extensive experience in analysing the “current situation” to develop strategies to drive efficiencies.
• Deep thinker who keeps on top of trends, new ways of working and industry research.
• Energetic, action and people oriented. A team player who works for the success of the business and the wider team is a critical element of this team’s culture.
• Strong Analytical and Organizational capabilities

• Effective communication and presenting skills
• Able to lead projects and manage project through prioritization and time management.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & process improvement.

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