Real Estate Lead

UK/Sweden/US

Build a long-term career with global knowledge and opportunities

In our fast-paced, growing environment, embrace an exciting opportunity to build a long-term, varied career. With a huge variety of global opportunities and learning from other teams this is the place to embrace lifelong learning and build capabilities, setting your own direction and pace.

We now have a fantastic opportunity for a Real Estate Lead to join our team.

In this role, you will act as a strategic advisor to the business on all Corporate Real Estate matters, bringing a diverse range of industry experience, with the ability to navigate and influence complex stakeholder groups, along with the self-confidence to speak in the best interest of AZ. Doing so as part of a client-centric operating model centered around Business Unit verticals and their unique demands and asset profiles.

The role is geographically based within major AstraZeneca markets to build positive working relationships and knowledge base at the Site level, primarily within the R&D and Operations property portfolios, to effectively assess and deliver real estate strategies and transactions aligned with the business objectives.

What you'll do:

Work closely with R&D and Operations Business Partners throughout the process, starting with standard Terms of Engagement spelling out the business requirements, risks and constraints, and inform opportunities to be considered therein

Lead engagement with site sponsors to define detailed evaluation plans to include site specific objectives and rules of engagement, scenarios to be evaluated, cross functional team members, and detailed plans

Fully own client relations and act as the single point of contact with site stakeholders, finance business partners and operational staff, along with external partners and affiliates, property owners, brokers and legal counsels.

Facilitate the delivery of real estate strategies informed by sound scenario analysis and supporting business cases, acting as the lead architect introducing creative real estate solutions aligned with the Enterprise-Business Unit objectives and property performance metrics

Establish clear accountabilities for all cross-functional team members in gathering key business insights and scenario assumptions, with assignments and deadlines identified and communicated early in the process

Act as primary point of contact with external partners across the evaluation and transactional phases

Develop and present business case summaries comparing financial and non-financial factors against business drivers, clearly documenting, and securing business endorsements on the recommended real estate strategy