Commercial Real Estate & Workplace Services Area Manager

Location: [Austin, Texas] Hybrid

The Area Manager – Commercial Real Estate & Workplace Services is responsible for overseeing real estate and facilities operations across a defined cluster of office and R&D sites within the Americas Region. The role delivers localized leadership for real estate execution, site operations, and workplace experience while serving as a key connection point between internal business stakeholders, outsourced service providers, and the global real estate team.

In addition to ensuring day-to-day operational excellence, the role contributes to global real estate initiatives in sustainability, workplace analytics, and Prop Tech enablement.

• Oversee daily site operations, ensuring safety, compliance, and an engaging employee experience
• Manage performance of outsourced facilities providers under a centrally coordinated Facilities Management model
• Support real estate transactions, site fit-outs, space changes, and occupancy planning

• Serve as the primary contact for local business leaders and end users
• Lead regional implementation of global workplace strategies and initiatives
• Promote adoption of global standards and support business continuity planning

• Champion sustainability efforts at the site level, including energy, water, and waste reduction
• Ensure compliance with internal ESG goals and environmental, health, and safety regulations

• Maintain accurate reporting on occupancy, service metrics, and operating costs
• Provide regional insights to global workplace dashboards and analytics tools
• Support the deployment and adoption of smart workplace and building technologies
• Assist in delivering small to mid-sized workplace and facility projects (e.g., renovations, relocations)
• Monitor vendor performance against SLAs, safety, quality, and compliance requirements
• Manage local operational expenses in line with established budget, support forecasting and planning
• Support capital projects including scope of work development, financial planning and stakeholder engagement from project conception through completion

Required (Core)

Qualifications:

• ~10 Years experience in real estate and/or facilities management
• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Construction Management or Building Systems Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or Civil).
• Interested in real estate and/or facilities management within office and/or R&D environments
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Auto Cad, Bluebeam and real estate/FM systems
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).
• Willingness to travel within Region US, Canada and Mexico (~20%) and collaborate globally across time zones

• Experience with space planning, lease support, or workplace transformation
• Familiarity with technical or R&D campus environments
• Exposure to sustainability programs and smart building systems,
• Understanding of global real estate operations and cross-cultural collaboration
• Experience with workplace analytics platforms