Senior Manager Portfolio Strategy Workplaces EM

Workplaces actively manages the adidas real estate portfolio, including leases and transactions across offices, showrooms and distribution centres, to enable business growth, portfolio optimisation and great workplaces while stewarding real estate investments. The role supports tactical implementation of the portfolio strategy and manages and optimises the Emerging Markets corporate real estate portfolio across leased and owned locations. It works within an extensive network of internal and external stakeholders and industry experts to provide value-added service and support sustainable portfolio decisions.

• Manage and maintain an integrated view of the Emerging Markets workplace portfolio across offices, showrooms, distribution centres and other relevant workplace locations.
• Lead comprehensive business intake with country and functional stakeholders to understand needs, drivers, expectations, constraints and timelines, and translate requirements into transaction specifications, search criteria, project definitions, scopes of work and decision timelines.
• Lead stay-versus-go analysis assessing business requirements, market options, cost, risk, operational implications and timing, and use broker market intelligence, portfolio data and internal inputs to develop viable supply scenarios and guide executive-level decision making.
• Identify portfolio optimisation opportunities, including renewal, relocation, consolidation, expansion, contraction or exit, and present clear recommendations and trade-offs aligned with country and business objectives and approved financial objectives and investment criteria.
• Lead business case development and manage end-to-end real estate transactions, including acquisitions, new leases, lease renewals, relocations, expansions, contractions, subleases, terminations, extensions and dispositions.
• Monitor critical lease dates and act as regional steward for timely action, proactively initiating stakeholder engagement, analysis, governance and decision making ahead of key milestones, and manage site identification, market searches, requests for proposal, option comparison
• Commercial negotiations and transaction documentation with brokers, Legal, Non-Trade Procurement, Finance, Design & Delivery and Workplace Management.
• Coordinate the creation of business cases, market analyses, engagement agreements, requests for proposal, letters of intent, lease documents and exhibits, ensure negotiations align with approved scenario assumptions, standards, financial objectives and critical business terms
• Coordinate due diligence and risk visibility, and maintain landlord relationships and escalation of material commercial or lease matters.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with business, Finance, HR, functional and Workplace stakeholders across Emerging Markets, lead client relationship management and cross-functional alignment, and manage external brokers, transaction partners, landlords
• Consultants and specialist vendors with clear deliverables, timelines, standards and quality expectations.
• Act as regional steward for accurate, complete and current portfolio data, documentation and governance records, ensure lease administration activities, documentation control, data accuracy and system updates with Global Workplaces COE teams, establish ownership
• Update rhythms and data quality controls, ensure compliance with policies, approvals and internal controls, and maintain space data, floor plans, CAD files, measured plans and area records.
• Support regional commercial reporting and financial visibility, coordinate consolidation and analysis of lease costs and wider workplace OPEX and CAPEX, develop consistent templates, processes and reporting approaches with Finance and Non-Trade Procurement
• Develop benchmarking and performance insights, identify and support implementation of efficiency and cost-management opportunities, and lead portfolio and commercial inputs for annual budget preparation and future planning.

• Typically 7+ years of relevant corporate real estate portfolio and transaction experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex transactions and business cases.
• Practical experience in more than one Emerging Markets location and/or across multiple countries, including exposure to different landlord, broker, legal and commercial practices.
• University degree in business, real estate, finance, engineering, architecture or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated business acumen and entrepreneurship, with experience working in an international organisation and with cross-functional senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead business case development, execute portfolio strategy and manage complex corporate real estate transactions.
• Expert verbal and written communication, influencing, presentation and negotiation skills, including confidence working with senior executives.
• Sound legal understanding and judgement relating to property contracts, transaction risk and the roles of Legal, Finance, Procurement and technical specialists.
• Comprehensive financial acumen, commercial judgement and data modelling capability, including advanced Excel.
• Strong functional knowledge of transaction management, financial analysis, project planning and execution, portfolio data governance and supplier management.
• Experience managing external brokers, landlords, consultants and vendors across multiple markets.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, connect portfolio, operational and financial information and communicate practical recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organise, maintain and quality-control varied portfolio, lease, space and financial data.
• Highly collaborative, with the capacity to build strong individual and team relationships and lead through influence in a distributed and diverse work environment.
• Proactive, engaging and impact-oriented mindset, with the ability to think critically end-to-end and continually adjust in a dynamic business environment.
• Fluency in English, written and verbal.

• Experience in lease administration, portfolio systems, space data management or workplace commercial analytics is advantageous.

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