Principal, Portfolio Strategy, Global Operations Enterprise Services - Portfolio Management

Description

Amazon is currently looking to hire an experienced professional for the role of Principal, Portfolio Strategy in the GOES Portfolio Management (GOES-PM) team. The individual will play a critical role in driving portfolio optimization globally. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team within GOES-PM with a mandate to Think Big and create new ways to unlock value from Amazon's operations network.

This role will focus on driving a new strategic paradigm for lease renewals and identifying opportunities to optimize the existing portfolio. The role will involve partnership with other Amazon teams, both within GOES, and outside, to build the business case to support optimization decisions and investments. The role will report up through the Director, GOES-PM, with a dotted line to the Head of Portfolio Strategy.

The role will ideally be based in the Nashville, Seattle, Miami, or HQ2 corporate offices, although other locations will also be considered. NA travel will be required, also potential for periodic EU travel.

• Drive global strategy for lease renewals, developing priorities and negotiating positions, advancing early and bulk renewals, maintaining a high-speed cadence for renewal transactions, coordinating with BUs and internal partners such as Finance on portfolio planning and tracking savings.
• Foster relationships and coordinate with, partners within GOES, internal Amazon stakeholders, and business unit ("BU") customers to enhance on-going data collection and conduct a deep analysis of renewal strategy by BU.
• Negotiate bulk renewal transactions and possibly individual BU renewals.
• Provide support and project management with lease renewals in North America as needed, including managing lease renewal data, driving data integration and updating milestones, creating and leveraging dashboards, and regular reporting.
• Help lead BU customers to optimize the existing portfolio, including looking at volume allocation, launch, and lease renewal decisions.
• Build datasets and develop analytic insights on Amazon's existing buildings, new launch requirements, lease renewals, excess space, and building operating performance. Drive towards strategic decision-making that enhances the network and solves needs across different BUs.
• Assess and communicate the strategic implications of business decisions relating to the Amazon real estate network.
• Contribute to and help drive strategy for other opportunistic transactions, leveraging conditions to create value for Amazon through the existing building network.
• Navigate through complexity and ambiguity, often with partial information, to clear recommendations for BU customers and internal stakeholders and partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Real Estate, or another related field
• Knowledge of lifecycle of physical assets (property and buildings), including negotiations for the acquisition, closure, and disposition of assets as well as capital improvements to assets.
• +7 years experience in real estate or similar field
• Extensive experience managing large multi-stakeholder projects with high visibility and time pressure
• Ability to deliver transactional results through influencing and leading other team members and stakeholders
• Understanding of financial analysis and real estate valuation, including the use of discounted cash flow models

• Master's degree, or Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
• +10 years experience in real estate or similar field
• Broad understanding of how to innovate in real estate services to optimize customer satisfaction and productivity
• Understanding real estate trends, best practices, capital markets, and the development marketplace
• Communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and build strong relationships with customers/partners, with the ability to invite input from these groups when determining the optimal solution for the BU customer
• Ability to think strategically and holistically about BU's unique real estate needs, while considering with the overall existing Operations network
• Ability to understand and value different BU customer needs and provide tailored services where necessary
• Leadership capability and credibility with the ability to be influence at all levels
• Acts decisively, holding others and themselves accountable for tasks, actions and development needs

Amazon is an equal opportunity…