Real Estate Director

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This position reports to

National Real Estate Manager

Your role and responsibilities

The Real Estate Director manages leasing/buying transactions over the Canadian real estate portfolio. He/she is the main point of contact to provide internal businesses optimal working/production/warehousing environments. This role requires a dynamic leader who can build productive relationships with internal/external stakeholders and ensure compliance with company policies and relevant legal requirements. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: - Building strategic relationships with local division leadership to understand their future real estate related supply and demand requirements. - Participating on the real estate strategic development plans for all business areas and divisions to enhance the local division facilities for both current and prescribed future needs. - Overseeing the acquisition, development, and management of real estate assets to support business operations and growth. - Being responsible of the action plan define with the business to ensure deadlines are met and communicated. - Leading and managing all real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, and lease/sublease negotiations. - Provide regular updates and reports to senior management on the status of ongoing transactions and projects. - Hires and manages third party, consultants and professionals. - Ensuring the analysis of legal documents related to real estate (deeds of sale, rental offers, leases, subleases, easements, and their amendments) to identify the rights and obligations of the parties. - Ensuring the management of the process for exercising options provided in leases and subleases. - Sending issues notices to tenants and subtenants, follows up on the required approvals to proceed with the exercise of options in compliance with legal deadlines. - Managing the leasing of vacant properties owned or rented by the company, appoints brokers to find tenants, ensures that their activities are compatible with the purpose of the property, verifies the solvency of tenants, and negotiates the terms of the lease or sublease (rent, work, etc.) - Being responsible for office space leasing files, including the exercise and negotiation of renewal options, the search for alternative locations, and the expansion of existing spaces. These tasks include appointing brokers, comparing alternatives, and, if necessary, negotiating leases, with the collaboration of the Legal Department.

Qualifications for the role

• Business Strategy
• HSE Management
• Budget & Performance Targets
• Communications & Public Affairs\Portfolio Management
• Finance\Systems
• Communications & Public Affairs\Sustainability
• Workplace Strategy
• Real Estate related Legal knowledge
• Strong presentation skills

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB's Electrification Global Markets organization is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and generating profitable growth for the Electrification Business Area. Our 10,000 strong commercial team represents the portfolio of all Electrification Business Area Divisions in over 100 countries. Our unmatched domain expertise across key industry verticals and channels combined with our truly global footprint makes us able to deliver extraordinary business results, supporting our customers with solutions which address their current needs, whilst considering the future emerging trends such as Urbanization, Digitalization and Shift to Electricity and Sustainable Energy. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 9th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.