Job Details
Job Function: Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)
Job Sub Function: Physical Security
Job Category: Professional
Job Posting Locations: London, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Director, Real Estate Delivery – EMEA/APAC is accountable for the end‑to‑end execution of real estate transactions, projects, and portfolio initiatives across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia‑Pacific. This role leads regional delivery teams and partners to execute DPS’s global real estate strategy while navigating regulatory diversity, market variability, labor frameworks, and geopolitical considerations. Operating as the primary regional execution leader, this role translates global strategy, standards, and governance into locally compliant, business‑ready delivery, ensuring speed, quality, cost discipline, and risk management across a highly complex and diverse regional portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Regional Real Estate Delivery Leadership: Own and lead real‑estate delivery across EMEA/APAC, ensuring consistent execution across markets with varying regulatory, commercial and operational environments. Serve as the single point of accountability for regional execution performance. Lead, develop and coordinate regional RE delivery teams and matrixed partners. Drive standardization, governance and best‑practice sharing across RE delivery teams to improve speed, quality and controls.
Transaction & Portfolio Execution: Execute real‑estate transactions including leases, renewals, expansions, exits, consolidations and dispositions. Partner with RE Governance & Strategy on business case development, approvals and prioritization, ensuring alignment to global strategy. Oversee lease administration and documentation, ensuring compliance with local legal and regulatory requirements. Support transformation initiatives, portfolio optimisation and long‑range real‑estate planning to align the portfolio with evolving business needs.
Project Execution & Performance Management: Oversee project execution across the region, ensuring adherence to approved scope, cost, schedule and quality standards. Apply standardised delivery models and best practices while adapting execution to local market realities. Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, including regulatory delays, stakeholder constraints and market volatility.
Strategic Space & Site Delivery: Deliver strategic space planning, workplace and site initiatives aligned to global workplace and design standards. Support site changes, relocations, expansions and consolidations, including coordination with FM and Property Services for operational readiness. Manage hand‑offs from project delivery to ongoing operations.
Compliance & Governance Adherence: Ensure all regional activities comply with global RE governance, approval thresholds and internal controls. Navigate and manage local regulatory, labour and consultation requirements, including Works Councils where applicable. Act as the regional escalation point for compliance, execution risk and delivery challenges. Deliver projects and services in compliance with applicable safety, quality, regulatory and company standards; partner with EHSS to embed safe execution.
Stakeholder & Supplier Management: Partner closely with Global RE Governance & Strategy, Property Services, Strategic Supplier Management, Finance, Legal, Procurement and regional Business Leaders. Drive accountability from third‑party providers delivering regional RE services across diverse markets. Influence and align senior stakeholders through clear executive communication, decision support and change leadership.
Core Capabilities
- Regional real‑estate delivery leadership in complex markets
- Transaction and lease execution across multiple jurisdictions
- Project delivery and performance management
- Portfolio execution and site delivery
- Regulatory and compliance navigation
- Financial and business case discipline
- Stakeholder and vendor management
Competencies & Skills
- Execution Leadership: Strong bias toward delivery, accountability and results in complex environments. Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives across diverse geographies and time zones.
- Commercial & Financial Acumen: Solid understanding of real‑estate economics, lease structures and project financials across varied markets. Ability to manage cost, schedule and scope trade‑offs in volatile or constrained environments.
- Influence & Collaboration: Proven ability to lead through influence in a matrixed global organisation. Strong communication skills across cultures, functions and seniority levels.
- Judgment & Problem Solving: Sound judgment navigating regulatory, stakeholder and geopolitical complexity. Ability to anticipate risks and drive pragmatic, compliant solutions.
Experience & Education
- 12+ years of experience in corporate real‑estate delivery, transactions or project management
- Experience leading EMEA and/or APAC regional portfolios in a global enterprise
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (Master’s degree, MBA or equivalent)
- Background in medical device, pharmaceutical or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with workplace strategy, site consolidation or portfolio optimisation initiatives
- Familiarity with sustainability, energy efficiency or green building standards
- Executive‑level presentation, negotiation, stakeholder management and change leadership capabilities
- Certifications such as PMP, RICS or similar project/real‑estate credentials (preferred)
- Additional regional languages (preferred)
Travel
Travel up to 20–30%, including international travel across EMEA and APAC.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Accommodation Statement
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us through Johnson & Johnson’s accommodation resources.
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