Director, Corporate Real Estate & Facilities

Key Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight and leadership for multiple concurrent multimillion-dollar capital investment projects across the United States.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the Chief Financial Officer, senior executive team, and project operations teams, ensuring alignment on scope, budget, schedule, and risk.
• Partner with designated project managers on each initiative, maintaining accountability for project outcomes and reporting progress to senior leadership.
• Identify and escalate project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure timely resolution of issues that could impact cost, schedule, or quality.

Real Estate Portfolio Management

• Oversee a portfolio of approximately 25 commercial properties across the United States, including both full-service and triple net leased facilities.
• Administer and continuously improve the company's real estate management platform (CoStar Visual Lease), ensuring data integrity, reporting accuracy, and system optimization.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of all lease terms, critical dates, financial obligations, and property-specific requirements across the portfolio.
• Coincide regularly with Accounts Payable to ensure accurate and timely processing of lease payments, operating expenses, and reconciliations.
• Monitor market conditions and provide strategic recommendations regarding portfolio composition, footprint optimization, and space utilization.

Lease Transactions & Negotiations

• Lead or support negotiations for new leases, lease renewals, amendments, extensions, and property dispositions.
• Engage and manage outside brokers, legal counsel, and other third-party advisors as needed to support real estate transactions.
• Ensure all executed agreements comply with company policies, legal requirements, and applicable government contract regulations.
• Support facility initiative sponsors with in their development and presentation of business cases and financial analyses to executive leadership for significant real estate decisions.

Facilities Operations & Compliance

• Serve as the enterprise-wide point of contact for all corporate real estate and facilities matters, ensuring consistent service delivery across all locations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain facilities policies, standards, and procedures that support operational efficiency and compliance.
• Ensure facilities operations comply with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, as well as requirements specific to government and defense contracting environments.
• Manage vendor and service provider relationships, including contract administration, performance oversight, and invoice approval.
• Support business continuity and emergency preparedness planning as it relates to facilities and physical infrastructure.

Proposal & Business Development

• Contribute real estate and facilities expertise to company proposal efforts, including authoring or reviewing facility-related content for government contract proposals.
• Respond to surge demand during active proposal periods, providing timely and accurate facilities information in support of capture and business development activities.
• Coincide with business development and contracts teams to ensure proposed facility solutions are operationally feasible and contractually sound.

Strategic Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide support to the CFO and senior executive team on all real estate, facilities, and capital investment matters.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Finance, Legal, Contracts, Operations, IT, and Security.
• Lead, and mentor any site lead or team members not a direct report but with responsibilities in the facilities function.
• Aid the VP Corporate Controller in development and management of the facility service center budget, including capital expenditures, operating expenses, and lease obligations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Business Administration, Facilities Management, Finance, Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in corporate real estate, facilities management, or a related discipline, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, geographically distributed commercial real estate portfolios.
• Proven track record overseeing complex, multimillion-dollar capital construction or renovation projects.
• Experience working within or supporting a government or defense contracting organization, with familiarity with relevant ICD 705 regulatory and compliance environments.
• Strong financial acumen, including the ability to analyze lease financials, develop business cases, and manage budgets.
• Proficiency with real estate management platforms; experience with Visual Lease or comparable systems preferred.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage credibly at the executive level and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, including surge periods associated with government proposal activity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CCIM, CPM, RPA, CFM, or PMP.
• Experience with classified facilities, including ICD 705 requirements.
• Experience with both full-service and triple net lease structures.
• Experience supporting government contract proposal development, including writing or reviewing facilities-related proposal sections.

Security Clearance

This position will require the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Current clearance holders are encouraged to apply.

Working Conditions

• Primarily remote office-based with regular travel (up to 25%) to company locations across the United States to support capital projects, property inspections, and operational needs.
• May require availability outside of standard business hours during proposal surge periods or in response to urgent facilities issues.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is $150,000/year to $225,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on established government contract ranges, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and other factors.