Real Estate Manager

You will join Linklaters in a strategically important role within the Premises function, supporting the delivery of major workplace projects across the firm’s international office portfolio.

As Real Estate Manager, you will lead the planning and delivery of major workplace and office fit-out projects across a global portfolio of 30 offices in 20 countries. This is a newly created, standalone role reporting directly to the Global Head of Premises, with a particular focus on relocation, fit-out and refurbishment programmes across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project leadership and governance:
• Lead projects from initial brief and feasibility through to completion and post-occupancy review, ensuring they meet with agreed objectives.
• Assemble and manage multi-disciplinary professional teams.
• Help prepare clear, concise internal approval papers and business cases to secure governance and budget approvals.
• Lead project meetings to ensure projects meet scope, time & cost objectives.

• Stakeholder and steering group management:
• Act as the primary point of contact between external project teams and Linklaters’ internal stakeholders.
• Guide local Linklaters’ steering groups on decision making, options appraisal and risk, providing practical, commercially-sound advice.
• Facilitate workshops and presentations to senior stakeholders to agree briefs, design principles, budgets and programmes.
• Build strong relationships with internal clients, ensuring their needs are met.

• Design and construction management (client-side):
• Manage project teams through the entire design and construction process, ensuring Linklaters’ design, technical, brand and operational requirements are fully incorporated.
• Review and challenge design proposals to ensure they are functional, efficient and aligned with the firm’s standards and strategic workplace objectives.
• Lead value engineering reviews to optimise cost, programme, quality and sustainability outcomes, while maintaining core project objectives.
• Monitor progress against programme, budget and quality benchmarks, and drive timely resolution of issues, risks and changes.

Requirements:

• Significant project management experience, ideally gained on the client side or in consultancy, with a strong track record of leading office fit-out, refurbishment, relocation or new-build projects from feasibility through to completion.
• Proven experience delivering complex projects in occupied office environments, including managing business continuity, phasing, operational risk and the practical challenges of office moves.
• Strong international project experience, ideally across Europe, with a good understanding of how real estate, design, procurement and contracting approaches vary across jurisdictions.
• A strong understanding of commercial office real estate, workplace design and fit-out, together with a sound grasp of construction delivery and the ability to work effectively with technical advisers and external consultants.

Benefits:

• Private medical care
• Free in-house fitness centre
• Life insurance
• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel
• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card
• Wide range of training opportunities