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About the Role

The Global Real Estate Director is a critical global role responsible for driving Real Estate strategy, Facility Management excellence, and Physical Security governance across an international footprint, with sustainability as a core expectation. The role ensures global consistency, operational excellence, and long-term productivity through strong governance, standards, data visibility, and cross-functional leadership, aligning the real estate portfolio with strategic ambitions.

Responsibilities

Co-define the global Real Estate strategy with Corporate RE, Industrialization, and GSC partners to support footprint optimization and business growth.
Drive harmonization and transparency of the end-to-end property portfolio (offices, plants, warehouses, labs), including data quality, contracts, KPIs, and governance.
Oversee and support Real Estate decisions across GSC property portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic, financial, and operational priorities.
Deliver analytics and insights (scenario planning, location strategy, make vs lease, consolidations, climate and nature scenario) to enable informed decisions on productivity and footprint evolution.
Strengthen governance frameworks to ensure alignment between Corporate, Regional, and SERE teams.
Build global IFM/FM capability through benchmarking, cost transparency, and data-driven identification of outliers and productivity opportunities.
Standardize and elevate FM practices globally, promoting convergence/sharing of regional best practices in operating model and innovation.
Embed sustainability FM practices and sustainable vendor selection criteria into the global FM model.
Partner with Corporate Security, Regional FM, and Indirect Procurement on governance of guarding, access control, CCTV, visitor management, and incident response.
Implement global governance processes: KPIs, SLAs, vendor reviews, risk assessments, and escalation protocols.
Integrate physical security standards within IFM execution models.
Ensure alignment with global resilience requirements and internal/external audit expectations.
Integrate climate risk assessment and adaptation planning into site strategy, footprint decisions, and CapEx planning.
Support Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction by strengthening governance of Real Estate and Facility Management data, spending, and performance monitoring.
Ensure sustainability standards (LEED, BREEAM, WELL) are applied in new tertiary buildings, major refurbishments, and acquisitions.
Own the RE/FM contribution to the Sustainability Cockpit and to external disclosure frameworks (CSRD, TCFD, TNFD).
Lead or participate in transversal topics and initiatives across Real Estate, FM, SERE, Digital, Sustainability, and GSC strategy.
Drive SERE Technical Debt Reduction initiatives (assets, systems, digitization).
Support Schneider Electric’s Digital transformation, AI use cases, Sustainability Cockpit, and data-driven decision tools.
Support Winning Plan reporting and coordination of steering committees.
Act as the key global interface between GSC and Corporate Functions on Real Estate, FM, and Physical Security topics.
Drive organizational alignment by bridging strategic, policy, and operational layers across Corporate, Regional, and Site teams.
Influence senior stakeholders, navigate matrix structures, and resolve cross-functional misalignments.

Requirements

Experience in global Real Estate, Facility Management, or related fields across a multi-site, international environment.
Knowledge of integrated facility management (IFM), service delivery models, and vendor governance.
Strong understanding of real estate transactions (acquisitions, renewals, disposals) and portfolio optimization.
Experience in climate and nature capital risk frameworks (TCFD, TNFD, scenario analysis), corporate decarbonization pathways, and sustainability disclosure (CSRD, GHG Protocol, SBTi).
Proficiency in FM/RE systems, workplace management tools, financial modeling, and CapEx/Opex planning.
Must submit an online application to be considered.

Skills

Real Estate Strategy
Facility Management
Physical Security Governance
Sustainability
Portfolio Governance
Data Quality Management
Contract Management
KPI Tracking
Cross-functional Leadership
Analytics
Scenario Planning
Location Strategy
Make vs Lease Analysis
Consolidation Strategy
Climate Risk Assessment
Nature Risk Assessment
Corporate Decarbonization
Sustainability Disclosure
IFM Capability Building
Benchmarking
Cost Transparency
Operational Excellence
FM Practice Standardization
Vendor Selection
Physical Security Management
Access Control
CCTV Management
Visitor Management
Incident Response
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Risk Assessment
Escalation Protocols
Resilience Planning
Audit Compliance
CapEx Planning
Opex Planning
LEED
BREEAM
WELL
Sustainability Cockpit
CSRD
TCFD
TNFD
Transversal Project Leadership
Technical Debt Reduction
Digital Transformation Support
AI Use Case Support
Data-Driven Decision Tools
Winning Plan Reporting
Steering Committee Coordination
Stakeholder Management
Organizational Alignment
Matrix Navigation
Cross-functional Misalignment Resolution

Location

Kallang

Work Type

Global

Experience Level

Global Real Estate
Facility Management
International Environment
Multi-site Experience

Education Level

Degree in Real Estate, Facility Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business or related discipline preferred.
Professional certifications such as IFMA (CFM), LEED AP, and GARP SCR preferred.

Benefits

Total Rewards package designed to help you perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential.
Package helps you care for yourself and your family, plan your future, grow your skills and career, collaborate in an inclusive workplace, and contribute to your community.

About the Company

Schneider Electric advances progress and sustainability for all through products, software, and services that propel the digital transformation of energy management and automation.
The company empowers people and organizations to become more resilient, electric, and digital.
Working at Schneider Electric means working toward a cleaner, better world.
Global team built on inclusion, mastery, purpose, action, curiosity, and teamwork.
€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150,000+ employees in 100+ countries.

Equal Opportunity

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
The company mirrors the diversity of the communities in which it operates, and 'inclusion' is one of its core values.
Differences are believed to make the company and individuals stronger.
Committed to championing inclusivity in everything they do.
Upholds the highest standards of ethics and compliance.
Trust Charter demonstrates commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality, and cybersecurity.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.