Sr. Real Estate Transaction Manager

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Our Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions business has an excellent opportunity in the Corporate Real Estate Group (CRE). As our Senior Real Estate Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage your expertise to support development of our property database, enhance our tools regarding lease administration, project manage transactions, oversee lease accounting services and site dispositioning. Reporting to the Global Director of Real Estate, this role is unique because you’ll work closely with regional leadership while operating independently with the ability to focus your talents on the regions and projects that you determine to be most impactful to the business.

As the CRE expert, the you’ll play an integral role with the Real Estate team in a global, matrixed organization with operations in over 60 countries. It’s a big role where you’ll do meaningful work to help create a world class real estate function. If you like the idea of working with a company that’s doing big things to create a cleaner, more sustainable world for us all, here’s more:

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Lease administration and Project Management services for office, industrial (warehouse & manufacturing plant sites), laboratories and land projects.
• Leading operational lease transaction projects to ensure timely completion.
• Own, measure and grow partnership initiatives against identified KPIs and goals.
• Support and execute on abstraction of leases and lease related documents into the real estate tool
• Special projects as assigned include site dispositions; sale of sites, sale/lease-backs, site exits/site restoration and hand over to Landlord, or relocation of sites to new sites, site acquisitions, workspace planning related to office, warehouse, industrial plants or lab designs.
• Ability to partner with Legal department, or outside Counsel to conduct a lease negotiation or property sale for complicated commercial/industrial contracts

• Responsible for creating reports for the Corporate Real Estate team using Excel and Sequentra (lease admin tool)

Core Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree engineering, real estate, accounting, finance or related field.
• 10+ years of prior asset management or industrial and portfolio management or related experience with commercial/industrial, office, laboratory and land properties.
• Experience working with Corporate legal counsel, real estate attorneys,
• Environmental Health and Safety attorneys, environmental consultants and related Municipal Agencies, and 3rd party real estate brokers.
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and requirements related to all types of properties and business operations.
• Advanced Excel skills 

Other Useful Skills & Abilities:

• Lease database management experience, preferably in Sequentra or any other lease tool. Experience in Tableau is a plus.
• Self-directed, experienced leader and financial executive with appropriate industry experience.
• Experience with Google Apps; gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Forms, etc is ideal.
• Good understanding of real estate fundamentals, financing principles, and capital structures. Experience in workspace planning, office fit out, warehouse operations and space/racking/inventory turnover requirements, manufacturing plant operations and related requirements. extensive contract/lease, Sale/Lease-back, and PSA negotiation experience.
• Solid understanding of chemical and dry warehouse storage and logistics requirements and related codes are ideal.
• Knowledge and experience of basic environmental regulations and issues related to property groundwater and soil contamination is ideal.
• Knowledge and experience with local and regional real estate laws and regulations are ideal.
• Ability to partner with A&D firms to translate office requirement appropriate workspace office space.
• IT and Database management, related requirements and timelines is ideal.

Salary Range: $100,000-$107,000 CAD

This is a hybrid role. The ideal candidate must be able to work out of one of the following offices 2-3 days a week on site: 

Trevose, PA

Minnetonka, MN

Beaumont, TX

Cary, NC

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.