Global Real Estate Director

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Location: Kallang

Mission (About the Role)

The Global Real Estate Director plays a critical global role within Schneider Electric’s Global Supply Chain organization, responsible for driving Real Estate strategy, Facility Management excellence and governance of Physical Security across a diverse international footprint, with sustainability embedded 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. The global director partners with Corporate Functions, Regional Operations, SERE domains, and GSC leadership to deliver a resilient, sustainable and operationally efficient real estate portfolio aligned with Schneider Electric’s strategic ambitions.

What will you do?

Global Real Estate Strategy & Portfolio Governance

• 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.

Facility Management & Operational Excellence

• Build global IFM/FM capability through benchmarking, cost transparency, and data driven identification of outliers and productivity opportunities.

• Standardize and elevate FM practices globally, such as 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.

Physical Security

• Partner with Corporate Security, Regional FM, and Indirect Procurement on governance of guarding, access control, CCTV, visitor management, and incident response

• Global governance processes: KPIs, SLAs, vendor reviews, risk assessments, and escalation protocols.

• Integration of physical security standards within IFM execution models.

• Alignment with global resilience requirements and internal/external audit expectations.

Sustainability Operations & Climate Resilience

• 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).

Cross-functional projects

• 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.

Leadership and stakeholder management

• 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.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• 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.

• Professional certifications such as IFMA (CFM), LEED AP, and GARP SCR preferred.

• Degree in Real Estate, Facility Management, Engineering, Architecture, Business or related discipline preferred.

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Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us. IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world. We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one. Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!

• €40 billion global revenue

• +9% organic growth

• 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

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