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About the Role

Seeking a strategic and analytically driven Director of Real Estate Governance to play a key role in shaping and advancing the real estate strategy across a ~100 location global commercial portfolio to inform decision-making, optimize the portfolio, and drive long-term business value.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support global real estate business processes, governance, compliance, and alignment with internal stakeholders to ensure processes meet operational excellence standards.
• Support Global Head of Real Estate on strategic initiatives driving operational efficiency, organizational alignment, standardization of global frameworks, and financial approval governance.
• Own department meeting routines and cadences, internal stakeholder alignment, all internal and external processes, and monthly and quarterly financial and operational governance routines and approvals.
• Track all approvals for official audits and compliance requirements.
• Support real estate functional leaders to standardize processes, ensure KPIs and metrics, and align executive governance approval requirements for the department.
• Conduct diligence and analyze existing processes, developing a programmatic approach for alignment, updates, and socialization.
• Build and support an ongoing operational excellence program, tracking, and metrics to ensure continuous improvement.
• Analyze insource versus outsource opportunities for efficiency, talent, and long-term success of the function.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, business cases, and briefing materials to communicate recommendations to senior leadership.
• Track and manage the real estate team workload in partnership with the Global Head of Real Estate, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely execution of strategic initiatives and reporting on outcomes to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience in real estate related leadership, governance, compliance, strategy, corporate real estate, commercial real estate advisory, or a related role.
• Strong working knowledge of commercial real estate fundamentals, market dynamics, facilities or occupancy planning, portfolio analytics, with familiarity of lease structures and real estate accounting standards.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex datasets and translate quantitative findings into clear, actionable strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
• Strong intellectual curiosity, analytical rigor, and attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced global environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex analysis clearly.
• Global experience preferred.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement.

Skills

• Real estate governance
• Real estate compliance
• Real estate strategy
• Corporate real estate
• Commercial real estate advisory
• Commercial real estate fundamentals
• Market dynamics
• Facilities planning
• Occupancy planning
• Portfolio analytics
• Lease structures
• Real estate accounting standards
• Data synthesis
• Strategic recommendations
• Analytical rigor
• Attention to detail
• Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel)
• Written communication
• Verbal communication

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Onsite (4 days per week)

Experience Level

• Director

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree required (Business, Real Estate, Finance, Economics, or related field preferred)

Salary/Compensations

• $190,000-$220,000 USD per year

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four Medical Plan options generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter & Transit FSA
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Volunteer days

About the Company

• At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about.
• We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations.
• Corient is the world’s largest multi-family office and non-bank wealth manager focused on serving ultra-high- and high-net-worth clients.
• As the industry’s only global professional services partnership, we combine the personal service and objectivity of a boutique with the scale and resources of a global institution.
• Our partnership model fosters collaboration over competition, bringing together the collective expertise of Corient to each relationship to deliver a transparent, client-first experience.
• As a fully integrated global firm, we deliver comprehensive solutions across investment management, wealth strategy and family office services to help clients simplify their lives, manage their wealth and establish lasting legacies.
• Corient refers to the separate but affiliated entities under common control of Corient Holdings Inc. Client assets include all assets of Corient Holdings Inc., including majority- and minority- owned businesses.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.