Senior Manager Real Estate Transaction & Projects (m/f/d)

Welcome to ZEISS – a company that combines innovation and responsibility! Our corporate areas are diverse and contribute decisively to the strategic orientation and sustainable success of the ZEISS Group. As Senior Manager Real Estate Transactions & Projects, you control complex national and international real estate mandates and drive location and portfolio developments. You manage end-to-end mandates, coordinate internal and external stakeholders and develop resilient contractual solutions in close coordination with legal and tax. For location and portfolio decisions, you will develop sound action options and lead them to decision and implementation. In M&A projects, you are responsible for the real-state-due diligence and advise the business on property-related opportunities, risks and needs for action. You report to the Head of Transaction & Asset Management and agree with it key mandate and decision issues. You control challenging real estate mandates in an international corporate-real-state environment and combine strategic, transactional and technical topics. As Senior Manager Real Estate Transactions & Projects, you are responsible for national and international projects and transactions, location and portfolio developments as well as real-state due diligence and business advisory in the M&A context. You conduct projects, project bundles and other mandates End-to-End, process central issues themselves and coordinate internal and external project participants. Together with the Business, Regional Real-Estate Units and Central Functions, you align the mandates with the business objectives. You develop target images, strategies and decision-making bases for locations, cross-site topics and selected assets. To do this, conduct market, object and cost-effectiveness analyses, evaluate opportunities and risks and show concrete steps to implement them. You develop transaction and structuring options, bind brokers, consultants and owners in a targeted manner, and prepare the options for choice. You conduct purchase and lease negotiations independently and in close coordination with Legal, Tax and the relevant decision-makers. You prepare governance and decision-making processes in terms of content, work out the key decision-making points and moderate the vote. Interdisciplinary project teams guide you professionally and project-related and secure the quality and progress of the mandates. You develop standards, processes and tools in the Transaction & Asset Management practice and ensure a consistent and efficient approach.

A completed degree in architecture, civil engineering, real estate management or a comparable qualification At least ten years of professional experience in the independent management of complex real estate projects and transactions, ideally in the international environment Very good knowledge of Corporate Real Estate, Transaction Management as well as lease and purchase contract negotiations and structures Designed analytical skills and a sound understanding of economic, strategic and operational relationships between real estate transactions and projects, the requirements of business and subsequent operation Designed competence in structuring and controlling complex projects and in project management established technical and structural understanding to classify planning, technical and user-side requirements and to evaluate solution options; Experience in Construction Project Management is beneficial Experience in the professional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams Impressed problem-solving competence, entrepreneurial thinking and pragmatic approach High levels of communication, conviction and negotiation as well as excellent knowledge of German and English; further foreign languages, for example Spanish or French, are advantageous Experience in cooperation with international and virtual teams as well as willingness to make necessary missions, mainly within Europe