Director, Real Estate Management

About the role

Directs, operates, and maintains large commercial property/portfolio ensuring hard and soft facilities services (Engineering, Custodial, Contracts, and Subcontractors); budgeting and financial oversight. Evaluates portfolio options for: reducing occupancy costs, improving space usage, and monetization and redevelopment of existing space.

Responsibilities

• Develop and articulate a short-to-mid term strategic vision for the real estate portfolio that directly supports the health system’s growth plans and enterprise-wide goals.
• Lead comprehensive portfolio optimization initiatives, driving strategies to reduce costs, generate revenue, and rationalize footprint across multiple regions or functional units to meet annual targets and long-term strategic objectives.
• Oversee and guide pipeline reviews and complex feasibility studies to assess alternatives and recommend solutions that balance diverse business needs, affordability, and enterprise direction.
• Identify system-wide or multi-regional opportunities for improvement in performance, utilization, and customer experience, developing robust business cases to support recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
• Advise senior leadership on new market opportunities and network strategies based on demand, access, and competitive dynamics, with a long-term planning horizon.
• Lead regular operating reviews with regional and functional unit operators to review pipeline, data, and project status, ensuring alignment and accountability.
• Establish and manage strategic relationships with third-party brokers and external stakeholders, setting performance expectations, monitoring KPIs, and driving accountability.
• Coordinate extensively with internal and external legal counsel on all binding documents and complex real estate issues, providing strategic guidance.
• Lead the internal socialization of large-scale real estate initiatives, securing alignment and approvals from diverse senior stakeholders, and providing clear, timely updates on progress and strategic impact.
• Provide strategic oversight and accountability for all significant regional and multi-regional transactions, including new leases, renewals, extensions, terminations, subleases, surrenders, purchases, and dispositions.
• Develop policies and procedures for tracking and managing critical lease dates, ensuring proactive strategic decision-making ahead of key events.
• Direct site selection processes leveraging advanced analytics, tools, and market intelligence, overseeing market tours and strategic broker engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in transaction management, lease administration, and customer relationship management across functional units.
• Lead and direct integration activities for acquisitions and divestitures within the assigned regions, ensuring seamless transition and strategic alignment.
• Contribute to proposals and business development efforts within assigned groups, acting as an advisor on real estate implications and opportunities.
• Performs related duties as required.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.

Qualifications

8-12 years of relevant experience and 7+ years of leadership/management experience required.

Pay

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).