Senior Director, Global Real Estate & Workplace Services

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of Bose’s global real estate portfolio, aligning investments and workplace strategy with business growth, workforce priorities, financial objectives, and employee experience.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on portfolio optimization, market expansion and consolidation, workplace transformation, capital planning, and M&A-related real estate implications.
• Translate business demand, workforce trends, and operating model changes into scalable portfolio, occupancy, and workplace solutions supported by data-driven insights and financial analysis.
• Evaluate and recommend real estate strategies and transactions through financial, operational, risk, employee experience, and long-term flexibility lenses.
• Lead the end-to-end real estate lifecycle across a global portfolio of 1.8M+ square feet spanning office, lab, light manufacturing, and specialized automotive environments.
• Drive portfolio performance through site selection, lease negotiations, renewals, consolidations, dispositions, acquisitions, occupancy planning, and workplace standards that balance global consistency with local business needs.
• Leverage utilization, occupancy, financial, and market data to optimize cost, flexibility, resilience, and workplace experience across the portfolio.
• Lead global workplace services and facilities operations, ensuring safe, scalable, employee-centric environments that support collaboration, productivity, and business continuity.
• Oversee Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) strategy and compliance, embedding safety, resilience, and operational excellence into workplace operations, vendor management, and project execution.
• Partner cross-functionally with HR, IT, Security, Legal, Finance, and Operations to deliver integrated workplace experiences and support evolving ways of working.
• Lead and influence direct, matrixed, and third-party teams across regions, cultures, functions, and external partner organizations.
• Develop scalable methods, tools, processes, operating rhythms, and communications to improve transparency, consistency, and execution quality.
• Provide clear and proactive communications to stakeholders and employee audiences impacted by real estate, workplace, and facilities changes.

  Qualifications And Special Requirements

  • 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in corporate real estate, workplace services, facilities, project delivery, or related fields, including global scope and responsibility for a multi-country portfolio.
  • Ability to travel both within the U.S. and Internationally.
  • Proven track record defining and executing enterprise real estate strategies aligned to business growth, workforce strategy, operating model evolution, and financial objectives.
  • Deep expertise in global real estate transactions, including lease negotiations, renewals, acquisitions, dispositions, complex commercial agreements, and broker management.
  • Experience supporting M&A due diligence and integration from a real estate and workplace perspective, including portfolio assessments, lease obligations, site rationalization, risk mitigation, and synergy identification.
  • Strong experience managing and partnering with external brokers, landlords, developers, advisors, service providers, and vendors across multiple regions.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with executive leaders and business unit stakeholders, influence complex decisions, and lead cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment.
  • Strong financial acumen, including experience with capital planning, portfolio optimization, investment analysis, ROI, lease vs. buy analysis, and executive-level business case development.
  • Experience using data, market insight, benchmarking, occupancy analytics, and workplace metrics to inform real estate strategy and operating decisions.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Real Estate, Engineering, Facilities Management, or a related field preferred; MBA, advanced degree, or relevant industry certification a plus.