Director, Real Estate

World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,6 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen have been at the core of the company's activities since its creation in 1902. Air Liquide's ambition is to be the leader in its industry, delivering long-term performance and acting responsibly.

Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not open for non-immigrant visa sponsorship.

This role, both strategic and operational, will be responsible for optimizing the portfolio of industrial land and real estate property for the NAM cluster. The role, with one direct report, will work closely with business unit leadership within NAM, and be responsible for acquisition, divestiture, permitting, records management, and leases of all real estate properties. This role will lead the development and execution of a road map for land and property management in order to standardize and improve the process between all stakeholders.

• Maintain a real-time inventory all existing properties and document all relevant information such as property taxes, market valuations, zoning, permitting, actual uses, future state etc

• Work with business unit executives to develop and execute a strategy to optimize the NAM cluster real estate portfolio via acquisitions, divestitures, and leases of current and future properties

• Lead the execution of all real estate transactions (divestiture, acquisitions and leases)

• Partner with the legal team to ensure all contractual aspects of industrial property management are respected

• Partner with government affairs team to secure local and federal incentives to support industrial property development

• Coordinate with the Business Shared Services team to ensure timely processing of lease payments

• Establish a structure with all the pillars for future state of the land and property management

• Improve process through continuous improvement in order to generate efficiencies on a recurring basis

• Oversee and develop all the relevant reportings related to land and properties (costs, market valuations, subleases etc)

• Manage the relationship with all the third parties such as real estate companies or brokers

• Manage and negotiate facilities contracts with vendors and contractors

• Managing real estate and physical asset portfolio

  • Lease Management

  • Transaction management

  • Space / move management

  • Project management

• Streamlining associated business processes

  • Standardized processes for real property activities

  • Collaboration to promote more effective decision making and identify opportunities for improved asset utilization

• Maximizing value

  • Move focus to enterprise value, not just needs of individual business unit

  • Provide data to support Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for real estate & facilities

REQUIRED EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Engineering, Real Estate or Land Management required

• 10+ years of work experience in a strategic role with measurable achievements

• 5+ years of people management experience

• 5+ years of project management experience (leading projects)

• Experience reviewing title opinions and real estate documents

• Previous operational planning, and/or financial analysis experience

• Knowledge of IFRS and ERP, accounting software experience

• Proficiency in Google Workspace (e.g. Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gemini)

• Experience with CoStar real estate management tools, especially for records management

• General technical knowledge of AL Operations and Technical Solutions

• Familiarity with AL business models and strategies

• Ability to independently and quickly develop a network across the organization

• Solution-oriented, with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Flexible, comfortable with moving priorities and tight time constraints

• Executive presence with a strong sense of audience

• A mature listener and skilled communicator, both written and verbal

Preferred Qualifications:

• Member Society of Industrial and Office Realtors

• Experience with land surveys including American Land Title Association (ALTA) survey standards

• Exposure to M&A

• Experience in legal and or tax

• Experience with artificial intelligence and challenging the status quo

• Six Sigma certified

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.