Retail Real Estate Manager Jobs in Silver Spring, MD

PORTFOLIO STRATEGY AND DEMAND PLANNING 

• Own and maintain the global real estate portfolio strategy, including location, capacity, tenure, timing, and scenario recommendations. 
• Partner with business leaders, Px, Finance, Manufacturing, Engineering, Security, EH&S, and Facilities Operations to understand growth plans, workforce demand, operating requirements, and risk. 
• Translate business scenarios into multi-year portfolio plans, decision points, options, dependencies, and financial implications. 
• Identify opportunities to expand, renew, consolidate, relocate, or exit space before constraints become business-critical. 

SITE SELECTION, TRANSACTIONS, AND BROKER MANAGEMENT 

• Lead site selection, market evaluation, option development, and real estate transaction strategy for new and existing locations. 
• Direct brokers, market advisors, landlords, and other external partners through clear scopes, timelines, deliverables, and performance expectations. 
• Structure and negotiate leases, renewals, expansions, contractions, assignments, subleases, and exits in partnership with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and executive approvers. 
• Coordinate business cases, due diligence, approvals, negotiation positions, and transaction documentation while maintaining a clear audit trail of decisions and commitments. 

LEASE ADMINISTRATION AND PORTFOLIO CONTROLS 

• Establish and maintain a single authoritative inventory of sites, leases, owned assets, critical dates, obligations, rights, options, and landlord responsibilities. 
• Implement disciplined lease administration, critical-date management, notice processes, obligation tracking, and escalation controls. 
• Partner with Finance and Legal to validate occupancy costs, rent and operating-expense obligations, forecasts, accruals, and transaction assumptions. 
• Drive timely resolution of landlord, lease, and occupancy issues while preserving clear ownership between Real Estate and Facilities Operations. 

OCCUPANCY, SPACE PLANNING, AND PORTFOLIO ANALYTICS 

• Establish common occupancy-planning methods, demand inputs, capacity assumptions, space standards, and scenario models. 
• Maintain a current view of capacity, utilization, vacancy, constraints, lease events, cost, and portfolio risk across the global footprint. 
• Develop location and space scenarios that balance business speed, employee experience, operational requirements, flexibility, cost, and risk. 
• Create concise portfolio dashboards and decision materials for monthly reviews, annual planning, and major site or transaction approvals. 

LIFECYCLE INTEGRATION AND EXECUTIVE ADVISORY 

• Serve as the principal real estate advisor to the Global Facilities Leader and a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders. 
• Coordinate with Capital Delivery to translate an approved transaction into a funded project, while preserving Capital Delivery ownership from authorization through occupancy. 
• Engage Facilities Operations, EH&S, Security, IT, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders early enough that operating and compliance requirements inform site and transaction decisions. 
• Contribute the portfolio fact base, real estate risks, and decision materials required for enterprise governance without assuming ownership of the broader Facilities PMO. 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in corporate real estate, business, finance, economics, planning, facilities, project management, or a related field. 
• 6+ years of progressive experience in corporate real estate, portfolio strategy, transactions, occupancy planning, workplace strategy, lease administration, or a comparable function. 
• Demonstrated experience supporting a multi-site portfolio and translating business demand into real estate strategies, options, and executive recommendations. 
• Practical experience with site selection, lease transactions, broker management, commercial negotiations, due diligence, or lease administration. 
• Strong business and financial acumen, including occupancy-cost analysis, scenario modeling, business cases, budgeting, forecasting, and trade-off evaluation. 
• Ability to synthesize incomplete and sometimes conflicting inputs into concise, fact-based recommendations and decision materials. 
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate Finance, Legal, Px, Procurement, Facilities, Capital, Security, EH&S, and business partners without relying on formal authority. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, high discretion, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-changing environment. 

• Experience in aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, technology, or another high-growth and regulated environment. 
• Experience with international portfolios, multi-country transactions, or global real estate business partnering. 
• Experience supporting manufacturing, engineering, hangar, laboratory, classified, SCIF, or other technically complex environments. 
• Familiarity with IWMS, lease-administration, occupancy-planning, mapping, financial-modeling, and business-intelligence tools. 
• Real estate, finance, project-management, workplace, or related professional credential. 
• Experience building a new real estate capability, leading external advisors, or developing analysts and cross-functional workstreams.