About the Team
Our Workplace team is responsible for curating and sustaining our unique work environments around the world, helping to bring our Purpose to life in the physical sense. We manage the full life cycle of our physical workplaces, from ideation to expiration, and we are key influencers of the employee experience through our workspaces, services, and amenities.
About the Role
As a Real Estate Analyst, you will contribute to our overall Real Estate strategy, including but not limited to Portfolio Management and Lease Administration. You will help to scale our existing portfolio by building robust processes for our global portfolio, currently serving ~1900+ employees occupying ~400K square feet across 14 locations.
In your role, you will also be building and leading all aspects of our function, focusing on ensuring tight alignment with the relevant functions in the Accelerate (finance) organization.
You will be both execution-focused, helping to ensure our day-to-day business runs smoothly, and strategy-focused, contributing to the long-term health of the organization; you will move between these elevations frequently.
What You’ll Do
- Manage leasing, acquisition, disposition, and site selection activities for the company
- Act as a liaison between senior management and firms contracted to maintain/manage the company’s real estate properties
- Maintain strong relationships with third-party leasing and sales brokers
- Keep a database and regularly appraise all real estate leased by the company
- Work with external legal counsels to draft and scrutinize legal documents
- Coordinate with landlord facilities and property management professionals
- Develop knowledge and tools to best facilitate the company’s need for optimal site selection
- Collaborate with internal teams to manage due diligence, entitlements, and scheduling in the purchase or development of new locations
- Provide oversight to brokers in performing market analysis including traffic counts, site accessibility, demographics, employee locations, and competitor locations
- Tour potential sites
- Make internal presentations to senior management for approval of leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and site selection decisions
What You’ll Need
- 2-3 years of experience working in Real Estate, ideally in a high-growth technology-driven start-up environment
- Entrepreneurship experience: intrapreneurship (building processes from scratch) or experience founding a startup/providing consultancy & advising (self-starters)
- Stakeholder management and influence
- Defined and executed on strategies related to real estate, and taken accountability for the delivery
- Experienced in governance and relationship management of Workplace supply partners
- Experienced in working in and delivering Workplace solutions and strategies within a corporate environment (as a consultant or in-house)
- An understanding of industry top methodology
What’s In It for You
- Competitive equity package
- Medical insurance coverage
- Lunch, snacks, and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Travel allowance for your commute
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
- Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam
Enthusiastic about this position?
Are you the Real Estate and Portfolio Analyst we are looking for? Then we would like to invite you to apply! Would you like more information about the position? Then contact Mark Bonar at mark.bonar@colliers.com or +31 6 82 48 05 92 | #interimmanagement
