Regional REFM Commercial and Governance Lead

About the role

A member of the REFM regional leadership team, the Regional RE&FM Commercial & Governance (C&G) Lead is the regional commercial and governance anchor for RE&FM. The role safeguards commercial discipline, compliance, and predictable governance across the regional RE&FM portfolio and enables self-service for the Business in line with the RE&FM SLA. The role is a subject matter expert (SME) across budgets and costs, payments, external partners, leases, and master data, and ensures solid data foundations for regional decision-making, aligned to global frameworks and SLAs with other Support teams.

Responsibilities

• Anchor and embed global RE&FM commercial governance frameworks, guardrails, tools, templates, and ways of working across the region, ensuring consistent application across sites and countries.
• Contract Account Manager for REFM Partners, Vendors, Contractors, etc.,,
• Act as the regional guardian of commercial compliance, decision rights, and approval frameworks, challenging decisions that sit outside agreed guardrails and reinforcing predictable governance routines.
• Serve as the regional budget and cost transparency anchor, ensuring visibility and explanation capability at site, country, and regional level, aligned to the Finance SLA and global timelines.
• Support regional leaders and budget owners by providing data-based commercial insight, including deep dives on deviations and drivers to enable proactive management actions.
• Ensure an efficient and compliant operational financial flow (PR, PO, and invoice governance) within RE&FM, serve as the escalation point for blocked, parked, or disputed invoices, and implement root-cause fixes to help prevent repeat issues.
• Safeguard external partner commercial compliance, ensuring governance routines and payment structures are set up correctly for RE&FM-owned contracts, and providing guidance to enable Business self-service for Business-owned contracts, in line with the RE&FM SLAs.
• Ensure adherence to global lease processes and tools for RE&FM-owned leases, including IFRS 16 governance, and ensure effective handoffs and data quality across RE&FM, Legal, and Finance in line with agreed SLAs.
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