Director, Global Real Estate

The PerkinElmer real estate portfolio is comprised of commercial office, R&D, laboratory, manufacturing, and training space as well as technical centers in over 37 countries with 122 locations worldwide totaling over 2.5 million SF of office space. More importantly, we recognize and appreciate how space is becoming increasingly important in how work is performed, and how this contributes to the employee experience in today’s organizations.

PerkinElmer is seeking a world class Director, Global Real Estate with responsibility to plan, develop and manage the implementation and execution of a real estate strategy that supports the business objectives of PerkinElmer.

Essential Job Functions: 
•    Demonstrate strong leadership by aligning real estate strategy and evolution with business strategies, products and people. 
•    Develop and implement innovative real estate strategies by each country and region, incorporating the latest technology and contemporary thinking metrics (i.e. collaboration spaces; sustainability; alternative energy sources,) to transform the corporate real estate portfolio and employee experience.
•    Provide recommendations that will contribute to a more effective and efficient real estate portfolio and facility operating model, optimizing investments in our global real estate footprint. 
•    Compile market data, forecast, budget, and other analysis to support real estate priorities and decision making.
•    Manage real estate capital spend and operating budget, setting and delivering on annual budgets.
•    Utilize financial skills and acumen to make better business decisions, engage in negotiations, evaluate issues and propose solutions. (i.e. lease vs purchase, lease renewal vs relocation vs consolidation, collaborative and agile spaces vs. traditional office space etc.) 
•    Conduct on-gong workplace portfolio assessments in order to effectively leverage our footprint and optimize our employee experience; track, analyze and report capacity metrics, risks and opportunities to Executive Leadership Team. 
•    Lead negotiations and finalize contracts with respect to leases, facility vendors, architects, outside legal counsel, real estate brokers, contractors and others as necessary. 
•    Develop facility and real estate reporting tools (with strong analytics) providing leadership with a clear understanding of the overall real estate portfolio performance on an annual basis. 
•    Oversee and coordinate ongoing compliance with standards established by regulatory bodies throughout portfolio. 
•    Manage Waltham-based facilities team and a Singapore based R/E Director who overseas APAC region activities.