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Company Details

Our client is a global European MNC in the auto component manufacturing industry, with a strong international presence and operations across multiple locations. The organization operates in a complex, multi-site environment and is focused on operational excellence, sustainability, workplace quality, and long-term asset performance.

Role & responsibilities The Head Global Real Estate Management, India will be responsible for leading the company's real estate and facility management agenda across India. The role will have primary ownership of Facility Management and workplace operations, while also providing strategic oversight across real estate portfolio management, projects, property/asset management, financial planning, and infrastructure development.

The position will work closely with global and regional real estate teams, business leadership, plant/site leadership, internal functions, consultants, contractors, and service partners to ensure safe, compliant, cost-effective, and high-quality workplace and facility operations.

The ideal candidate should bring strong experience in corporate real estate/facility management within a multinational and preferably manufacturing or industrial environment, along with the ability to manage a diverse portfolio and drive strategic initiatives across multiple locations.

Key Responsibilities

1. India Real Estate & Facility Management Leadership

- Lead the overall Corporate Real Estate and Facility Management function for India across offices, manufacturing locations, and other company facilities.
- Develop and execute facility management strategies in line with global standards and India business requirements.
- Ensure consistent and high-quality delivery of hard and soft facility services across locations.
- Establish appropriate operating standards, governance mechanisms, service levels, and performance measures for facility operations.
- Drive continuous improvement in workplace quality, service delivery, operational efficiency, and employee experience.

1. Facility Operations & Infrastructure

- Oversee day-to-day facility operations covering building infrastructure, engineering services, utilities, maintenance, housekeeping, security, workplace services, and other support functions.
- Ensure high levels of facility availability, reliability, safety, and business continuity.
- Develop preventive and predictive maintenance strategies to improve asset reliability and lifecycle performance.
- Identify infrastructure gaps and initiate improvement programs to support evolving business and manufacturing requirements.
- Ensure facilities remain operationally efficient,



safe, sustainable, and fit for purpose.

1. Real Estate Portfolio & Asset Management

- Provide strategic oversight of the organization's India real estate portfolio, including property, buildings, infrastructure, and associated assets.
- Monitor utilization, capacity, lifecycle requirements, operational performance, and long-term infrastructure needs.
- Support portfolio optimization and recommend appropriate strategies based on business growth, consolidation, expansion, or changing workplace requirements.
- Work with regional/global teams on real estate strategy, portfolio planning, transactions, and property-related initiatives as required.

1. Projects & Capital Investments

- Lead and oversee facility expansion, infrastructure development, renovation, workplace transformation, relocation, and other real estate-related projects.
- Define project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, and execution plans.
- Coordinate with architects, consultants, project management teams, engineering teams, contractors, and other external partners.
- Ensure projects are delivered within agreed cost, quality, timeline, safety, and compliance parameters.
- Drive effective project governance and provide regular updates to senior management.

1. Budget & Cost Management

- Own and manage the annual facility and real estate budgets for India.
- Monitor operating expenses, capital expenditure, contracts, and project investments.
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising service quality, safety, compliance, or workplace standards.
- Evaluate business cases and investment proposals for facility and infrastructure initiatives.
- Track financial performance and provide management with appropriate analysis, forecasts, and recommendations.

1. Vendor & Contract Management

- Lead the selection, governance, and performance management of facility management partners, contractors, consultants, and service providers.
- Establish clear SLAs, KPIs, service standards, and performance review mechanisms.
- Conduct regular reviews of vendor performance, service quality, cost effectiveness, and compliance.
- Drive contract optimization, commercial negotiations, and supplier improvement initiatives.
- Build strong and reliable strategic partnerships with key service providers.

1. Compliance, Risk & Governance

- Ensure all facilities operate in accordance with applicable statutory, regulatory, environmental, safety, and corporate requirements.
- Maintain strong governance and audit readiness across all locations.
- Identify facility-related operational and business continuity risks and develop appropriate mitigation plans.
- Ensure required licenses, certifications, inspections, statutory records, and compliance documentation are maintained.
- Work closely with EHS, legal, finance,



procurement, HR, security, and other functions to maintain a compliant workplace environment.

1. Stakeholder & Global Collaboration

- Partner closely with India business leaders, plant heads, corporate functions, and regional/global real estate teams.
- Translate global real estate and workplace strategies into effective India-level execution.
- Manage multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization and build alignment across diverse business requirements.
- Provide senior leadership with insights on facility performance, portfolio requirements, risks, investments, and improvement opportunities.

1. Workplace & Employee Experience

- Drive initiatives to create a secure, efficient, comfortable, and future-ready workplace.
- Improve workplace services and employee experience through better processes, technology, infrastructure, and service delivery.
- Evaluate changing workplace needs and recommend solutions aligned with business and workforce requirements.
- Promote sustainability, resource efficiency, and responsible facility management practices.

1. Continuous Improvement & Strategic Initiatives

- Identify opportunities to improve facility efficiency, asset utilization, service quality, cost effectiveness, and operational resilience.
- Introduce best practices, technology, standardization, and data-driven facility management approaches.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators for facility and real estate operations.
- Provide strategic recommendations to senior management on long-term facility and infrastructure planning.

Candidate Profile

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Real Estate, Property Management, Business Management, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of relevant experience in Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, Workplace Management, Property Management, or related functions.
- Preferably 5+ years of experience in a multinational / global corporate environment.
- Experience managing multiple sites / a pan-India real estate or facility portfolio will be strongly preferred.
- Exposure to manufacturing, automotive, auto components, industrial, or engineering organizations is highly desirable.
- Strong experience in hard and soft facility management, infrastructure, maintenance, projects, vendor management, contracts, and budgets.
- Proven experience managing CAPEX and OPEX and delivering cost optimization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of statutory, safety, environmental, and facility-related compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale projects involving consultants, contractors, architects, and service providers.
- Ability to work effectively within a matrix organization and international stakeholder environment.
- Strong commercial and financial understanding with the ability to manage budgets and evaluate investment proposals.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, influencing, and leadership skills.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with the ability to drive hands-on execution across multiple locations.

Interested candidates meeting the above criteria are requested to share their updated CV at [email protected].

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