Real Estate Transaction Senior Manager

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

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Real Estate Transaction Senior Manager

**Job Summary**:
This position will act as the key individual for executing data center lease and sale transactions in their region for a growing global data center company. They will oversee activities relating to management of an existing portfolio of office and data center properties and site acquisitions related to new development opportunities.

**Responsibilities**

Inventory Planning and Capex Forecasting
- Provides direction for valuation analyses
- Leads analysis for various land acquisition projects and lease negotiations
- Identifies research needs on real estate and data center market in various metros
- Responsible for the inventory roadmap of each metro
- Provides input into the real estate strategy for each metro and supports capex forecast on planned developments

Real Estate Acquisition

Leads asset acquisitions
- Responsible for identifying and managing multiple site searches, ranging in scale from small offices to large data center buildings and greenfield sites
- Oversees program delivery of multiple related projects required for a specific business functional strategy

Permitting
- Oversees land and power permitting approvals with local authorities to support development of data centers

Asset Review
- Aids in development of asset management strategies including expansion, contraction, disposition and reconfiguration of properties

Lease Management
- Directs due diligence efforts for real estate transactions
- Oversees new lease abstracting, quarterly reporting of real estate activity with Finance and compliance with REIT requirements

Project and Program Management
- Will mentor junior project/program team members in project management

Stakeholder Management
- Manages real estate transaction reviews with internal and external legal counsel
- Proactively interfaces with internal operations colleagues to identify real estate needs
- Manages real estate related cross-functional projects with internal and external colleagues

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, or Accounting required
- 7+ years of experience at a national brokerage firm, investment bank or real estate investment firm preferred (experience within data center environment a plus)
- Real Estate License preferred

**French Translation**:
**Résumé du poste**:
Le titulaire de ce poste sera la personne clé pour l'exécution des transactions de location et de vente de centres de données dans sa région pour une société mondiale de centres de données en pleine croissance. Il supervisera les activités liées à la gestion d'un portefeuille existant de bureaux et de centres de données, ainsi que les acquisitions de sites liées à de nouvelles opportunités de développement.

**Responsabilités**

Planification des stocks et prévision des investissements
- Interprète les analyses d'évaluation
- Dirige l'analyse de divers projets d'acquisition de terrains et de négociations de baux
- Identifie les besoins de recherche sur le marché de l'immobilier et des centres de données dans différentes métropoles.
- Responsable des feuilles de route de l'inventaire au niveau métropolitain
- Supervise la stratégie immobilière au niveau métropolitain et soutient les prévisions d'investissement pour les développements planifiés

Acquisition de biens immobiliers

Diriger les acquisitions de biens immobiliers
- Responsable de l'identification et de la gestion de multiples recherches de sites, allant de petits bureaux à de grands centres de données et à des sites vierges.
- Supervise l'exécution de plusieurs projets connexes nécessaires à la mise en œuvre d'une stratégie fonctionnelle spécifique.

Permis
- Supervise l'obtention des permis d'occupation des terrains et des permis d'électricité auprès des autorités locales afin de soutenir le développement des centres de données.

Examen des actifs
- Aide à l'élaboration de stratégies de gestion des actifs, y compris l'expansion, la contraction, la cession et la reconfiguration des biens immobiliers.

Gestion des baux
- Dirige les efforts de diligence raisonnable pour les transactions immo