About the Role
Welcome to ZEISS – a company that unites innovation and responsibility! Our Corporate divisions are diverse and contribute decisively to the strategic direction and sustainable success of the ZEISS Group.
As Senior Manager Real Estate Transactions & Projects, you steer complex national and international real estate mandates and drive site and portfolio developments forward. You manage end-to-end mandates, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, and develop robust contract solutions in close coordination with Legal and Tax.
For site and portfolio decisions, you develop well-founded options for action and drive them through to decision and implementation. In M&A projects, you are responsible for real estate due diligence and advise the business on real-estate-related opportunities, risks, and action needs. You report to the Head of Transaction & Asset Management and align key mandate and decision matters with him.
Your Role
•You steer demanding real estate mandates in an international corporate real estate environment, combining strategic, transactional, and technical topics.
•As Senior Manager Real Estate Transactions & Projects you are responsible for national and international projects and transactions, site and portfolio developments, as well as real estate due diligence and business advisory in the M&A context.
•You lead projects, project bundles, and other mandates end-to-end, handle key issues yourself, and coordinate internal and external project participants. Together with the business, regional real estate units, and central functional areas, you align the mandates with business objectives.
•You develop target pictures, strategies, and decision bases for sites, cross-site topics, and selected assets. To do so, you conduct market, property, and feasibility analyses, assess opportunities and risks, and identify concrete implementation steps.
•You develop transaction and structuring options, engage brokers, consultants, and owners in a targeted manner, and prepare the options for decision-readiness. You conduct purchase and lease contract negotiations independently and in close coordination with Legal, Tax, and the responsible decision-makers.
•You prepare governance and decision-making processes in terms of content, work out the key decision points, and moderate the alignment. You lead interdisciplinary project teams functionally and project-related, ensuring quality and progress of the mandates.
•You further develop standards, processes, and tools in Transaction & Asset Management in a practice-oriented way and ensure a consistent and efficient approach.
Your Profile
•A completed degree in architecture, civil engineering, real estate management, or a comparable qualification
•At least ten years of professional experience in independently leading complex real estate projects and transactions, ideally in an international environment
•Very good knowledge of corporate real estate, transaction management, as well as lease and purchase contract negotiations and structures
•Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of the economic, strategic, and operational connections between real estate transactions and projects, business requirements, and later operations
•Strong competence in structuring and managing complex projects as well as in project management
•Solid technical and construction-related understanding to classify, reconcile, and evaluate planning, technical, and user-side requirements; experience in construction project management is an advantage
•Experience in the functional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams
•Strong problem-solving competence, entrepreneurial thinking, and a pragmatic approach
•High communication, persuasion, and negotiation skills as well as very good German and English language skills; additional foreign languages, for example Spanish or French, are an advantage
•Experience working with international and virtual teams as well as willingness to travel as required, predominantly within Europe
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team: Sandra Köhler, Sandra Vogel
