Director, Global Real Estate Governance & Workplace Strategy

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An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Director, Global Real Estate Governance & Workplace Strategy

Location: Austin, TX

Job : 44612

As HID continues to scale globally, our physical footprint plays a critical role in enabling operational agility, supporting innovation, and driving cost‑efficient growth. In support of HID’s 2030 growth ambitions and long‑term transformation agenda, the Director, Global Real Estate & Workplace Strategy leads the performance and strategic direction of HID’s real estate and workplace portfolio across North America, Latin America, and EMEA, while contributing to global governance and enterprise standards.

This role partners with Business Areas, corporate functions, and ASSA ABLOY to guide a forward‑looking, analytically driven footprint strategy—one that anticipates workforce and operational needs, strengthens competitiveness, and positions HID for accelerated, scalable growth. The remit includes shaping consolidation and expansion decisions, optimizing the portfolio, and ensuring the workplace environment reflects HID’s brand, culture, and expectations for operational excellence.

Day‑to‑day execution is delivered through outsourced service providers; this role ensures they consistently deliver service excellence, compliance, and seamless ownership and flawless execution. Success requires a leader with strong emotional intelligence, executive presence, and the ability to influence across a global matrix—ensuring alignment, eliminating surprises, and driving predictable outcomes across all regions.

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

As our Director, Global Real Estate Governance & Workplace Strategy, you’ll support HID’s success by:

• Leading long‑range footprint strategy aligned to HID’s 2030 ambitions, acquisitions, and workforce evolution.
• Defining global governance frameworks, playbooks, and standards to be applied consistently across all regions.
• Generating robust Manufacturing Footprint Pipelines including scenario planning, consolidation/expansion evaluation, and capital prioritization.
• Serving as a strategic advisor connecting footprint and workplace decisions to Business Area and functional needs.
• Building alignment across HR, Finance, IT, Communications, Security, Legal, Supply Chain, and ASSA ABLOY.
• Providing structured, executive‑ready updates and ensuring predictable information flow.
• Governing portfolio OPEX/CAPEX forecasting, business case development, and financial modeling.
• Providing visibility into rental exposure, workplace cost structures, and cost‑to‑serve across regions.
• Maintaining consistent capital evaluation frameworks and financial rigor, including for MFP initiatives.
• Providing governance structure and clear expectations so regional teams and outsourced partners execute predictably.
• Leading the Site Leader Network to strengthen adoption, alignment, and communication across regions.
• Ensuring incident governance, risk transparency, and consistent escalation practices.
• Governing outsourced partners via global scorecards, Q /M  rhythms, and standardized performance expectations.
• Ensuring vendors deliver with transparency, responsiveness, and a zero‑surprise mindset across all regions.
• Owning global data governance for lease, space, utilization, risk, and portfolio reporting.
• Delivering executive‑ready dashboards and insights that drive clarity and informed decision‑making.
• Ensuring reliable, early‑stage data onboarding for new acquisitions.
• Ensuring workplace standards, environmental branding, and experience expectations reflect HID’s culture globally.
• Shaping consistent service rituals, workplace identity, and “moments that matter.”
• Accelerating workplace onboarding for newly acquired sites.
• Integrating sustainability and accessibility into footprint planning and workplace decisions.
• Providing visibility into environmental performance and alignment with HID’s global ESG expectations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Real Estate, Engineering,…