Manager - Real Estate, RE

Amazon is currently looking to hire an experienced Manager - Real Estate to join the team and play a critical role in supporting all property acquisition activity across Amazons India Network . This role will be based in Bangalore. Regular travel will be required and this role reports to the Regional Manager- Real Estate .

In this role you will support the India team to ensure the timely completion of new lease transactions including renewals, expansions, terminations, and reconfiguration of existing warehouse space. This encompasses the entire process from working with the local management team in defining the requirements, lease negotiations (business and legal terms), on-site surveys, comparative financial analysis of lease transaction, and project management to affect the end result. Your primary objective in this role is to provide adequate, cost effective storage/operation space for Amazon on the continent given the market conditions working to challenging deadlines and budgetary requirements.

Key Tasks/Responsibilities:
- Support the India team to fulfill the overall strategy for maintaining and developing space requirements of Amazon India Warehouse/storage strategy
- Develop a team of brokers and consultants to deliver the building requirements across different formats

- Develop strong understanding of regulatory requirements related to Real Estate development in the assigned geography

- Maintain regular communications with all business owners including local and central Finance managers, IT, legal, Operations, Facilities and Engineering functional representatives
- Landlord relations, negotiation and contractor management, including escalation of any issues beyond regular daily activity
- Alteration management and reducing Fix costs (all building related costs)
Experience/Skills required:
- Significant Real Estate negotiation and transaction management experience in Logistic and Offices
- Knowledge of life-cycle of physical assets (property and buildings), including the acquisition and disposition of assets and lease administration
- Ability to proactively monitor and control various vendor relationships and external resources (including contract negotiation and vendor management skills)
- Working knowledge of financial analysis techniques including discounted cash flow and capital budgeting
- Broad understanding of how to innovate in real estate services to optimize customer satisfaction and productivity
- Understanding of real estate trends, best practices and the vendor marketplace
- Excellent communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Proven ability to work collaboratively and build strong relationships with customers/partners with the ability to invite input from these groups when determining what will work best for the business
- Ability to understand and value different customer needs and provide tailored services where necessary
- High level of leadership capability and credibility with the ability to be influence at all levels
- Acts decisively, holding others and self accountable for tasks, actions and development needs
The ideal candidate will have a strong real estate background. The ideal candidate speaks fluent English, any additional language would be an advantage.