For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
We are seeking a
Director, Global Real Estate Transactions to lead complex real estate activities across a global corporate portfolio. This role partners with business leaders, finance, facilities, engineering, and cross functional teams to execute real estate strategies that support business growth, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
The Director will oversee real estate transactions across 120+ locations in more than 20 countries for a multinational organization. Responsibilities include leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, site selection, incentive negotiations, and management of external brokerage partners. This role serves as a key advisor to senior leadership and plays a central role in shaping the company’s global real estate strategy.
This position will work remote, from a home office located in the USA.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic real estate advisor to business and functional leaders, supporting operational and long term planning.
- Develop and implement global real estate guidelines to ensure consistent, compliant, and value driven acquisition, disposition, and leasing practices.
- Lead lease negotiations, renewals, and amendments, and resolve real estate related issues.
- Oversee site selection strategy, market evaluations, and location analysis; present recommendations to leadership.
- Lead negotiations of offers and counteroffers to optimize value and mitigate risk.
- Partner with Legal on non standard or complex contractual terms.
- Secure local, state, and federal incentives for qualifying real estate projects and transactions.
- Manage owned real estate assets and maintain accurate portfolio and transaction data.
- Support real estate aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions.
- Collaborate with facilities and business leaders on space planning, utilization, and long term capital requirements.
- Manage relationships with external brokers and service providers, including performance evaluation against defined KPIs.
- Monitor global real estate market trends, service provider capabilities, and emerging technologies.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and procurement processes in collaboration with Finance, Legal, and Procurement.
- Track transaction performance, costs, and savings; provide reporting and insights to senior leadership.
Education
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Business, Finance, Engineering, or a related field required
- MBA or other advanced degree preferred
Experience
- 10+ years of commercial real estate experience in a corporate environment
- Experience supporting multinational and multi site portfolios strongly preferred
- Proven success leading complex negotiations and large scale real estate transactions
- Experience with site selection, market analysis, and portfolio strategy
- Experience in life sciences or other highly regulated industries is a plus
Skills & Competencies
- Strong negotiation and deal structuring skills
- Excellent analytical, financial, and problem solving abilities
- Clear, effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and geographies
- Comfortable operating in a fast paced, global environment
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $160K - 200K USD annually. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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