Senior Director, Real Estate Portfolio Strategy and Planning

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to home ownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home.

Job Description

The Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy and Planning is a strategic leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the long-term vision of Fannie Mae’s corporate real estate portfolio. This role sits within Enterprise Workplace and drives an integrated approach to location strategy, portfolio optimization, and workplace delivery—aligning real estate decisions with business objectives, workforce trends, and financial performance.

In this compelling leadership position, you will oversee end-to-end portfolio planning, including asset strategy, capacity modeling, scenario planning, space planning, and design and construction alignment, while ensuring operational rigor through lease administration and critical date management. This role will directly shape the future of Fannie Mae’s workplace by ensuring the portfolio is agile, cost-effective, and aligned with the evolving needs of the business and its people - positioning Enterprise Workplace as a strategic enabler of enterprise performance.

The Senior Director, Real Estate Portfolio and Planning role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive, long-term corporate real estate portfolio roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy and workforce evolution.
• Lead location strategy efforts, including market analysis, site selection, and geographic optimization.
• Establish portfolio optimization strategies that balance cost, flexibility, employee experience, and business continuity.

• Define and execute asset-level strategies (retain, exit, reposition, sell/purchase) across owned and leased properties.
• Lead the Development Process for long term assets including site planning, site approvals, ownership strategies, local government development approvals and execution.
• Partner with Finance and HR to drive portfolio performance, capital planning, and cost optimization.
• Monitor market trends and benchmark portfolio performance to inform strategic decisions.

• Build and maintain dynamic capacity models that reflect workforce trends, hybrid work strategies, and business growth scenarios that align with the strategic workforce plan
• Lead scenario planning exercises to evaluate portfolio impacts of strategic business decisions (e.g., headcount shifts, M&A, policy changes).
• Provide data-driven insights to senior leadership for informed decision-making.

• Oversee enterprise space planning standards and ensure alignment with workplace experience goals.
• Translate business needs into scalable, flexible space solutions across the portfolio.
• Partner with Workplace Experience teams to ensure space strategies support productivity, culture, and engagement.

• Ensure alignment between portfolio strategy and design & construction execution.
• Provide strategic oversight for major capital projects, ensuring consistency with long-term portfolio plans.
• Drive standardization and efficiency in design delivery while maintaining high-quality workplace environments.

• Oversee lease administration processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and risk mitigation.
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