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Do you want to play a central role in bringing people together focusing on the core values of “Fun, Creativity, Learning and Caring”?

We are looking for a Real Estate Manager to manage our global office portfolio and supporting our local businesses having the best possible workplace solution.

We are always striving for new ways of supporting our businesses, and this role will play a pivotal role as a part of our Workplace Creation & Operations team.

Core Responsibilities

• Proactively manage our global portfolio, focusing on lease event dates, working closely with our local businesses, if they identify a need for change in current office set-up.

• Support our local teams, including legal teams in landlord disputes, arbitration, renegotiations etc.

• Manage and support our global Real Estate partners during transaction execution, ensuring efficient solution to the LEGO Group.

• Ensure all relevant internal partners are involved at the right time (Design, Project Management, HR, Procurement, Legal etc.)

• Support our design team implementing our “LEGO Ways of Working” strategy

• Ensure governance and processes are adhered to.

• Reporting to relevant stakeholders, including financial statements, business cases, portfolio review etc.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Real Estate Manager is an important part of our team, including designers, capacity planning team, Project Managers etc. who are all ensuring an outstanding workplace experience, and supporting the implementation of our overall strategy.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience in Real Estate and strong experience managing contract negotiations, both lease and freeholds and including strategy development on a transactional level

• Teammate, who understand the importance of working with the internal project managers, facility managers, procurement managers, both at central and local level.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, and able to communicate at all levels in our organization.

• Native level English Speaker

• A high degree of flexibility as we are working across time zones and countries

• Able to travel up to 30-40 days per year.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.