North America Corporate Real Estate Manager

Job Title: North America Corporate Real Estate Manager

About Us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to build a career worth celebrating.

Which company will you join?

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has changed. We're the world's leading premium alcohol company! Our brands are industry icons including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It's why we trust them with our legacy and why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the very best people!

At Diageo, our purpose is to celebrate life everywhere, every day. To do that, you will join an organization that is passionate about customers and consumers, and proud of what they do. Diageo teams constantly set high goals and then try hard to exceed them. We are also an incredibly diverse organization, and we value each and every one's talent and personality.

About the role:

Context - The Global CRES portfolio is significant in size and consists of a mixture of office locations, Supply/manufacturing, logistics sites and land/other. The North American region covers the US and Canada and this role is responsible for the following in region:

• Deliver against the Global CRES strategy; to create inclusive and sustainable workplaces that drive connections and inspire our employees to do their best work
• Lead NA demand office transactions to include new leases, renewals, planning and development and associated legal and financials with various contractual frameworks.
• Run NA property lease administration, data analytics and direct and indirect commercial income through active property asset and estate management
• Manager the real estate and capital life cycle project management with Financial and Strategic Target Metrics performance.
• Support the financial performance of the CRES function for operational IFM/FM in the region plus day to day Property Lease administration to include lease payment processing.
• Customer engagement and business partnering with emphasis on risk, safety and compliance.
• Lead strong performance partner engagement with Fleet vendor, IFM vendor, commercial real estate agents, advisors, specialist, consultants, planning, lawyers, etc.
• Partner with business, external partners, and supporting Americans, Central and Regional CRES teams to ensure our real estate, land, projects and associated initiatives meet our ambition.
• Partner with the business, suppliers, and internal partners to ensure our workspaces meet our ambition.
• Ensure proper governance for CRES related activities i.e. sustainability and H&S reporting, and handling related risk

Role Responsibilities:

Outstanding Relationships

• Develop and maintain trusted productive relationships with business/market client groups, Global/Regional CRES Teams, Performance Partners, participate in team meetings.

• Build, maintain relationships with networks to obtain insights, be the ambassador for CRES, showcasing our successes and innovation.

CRES Real Estate and Projects Performance & Outcomes

• Ensuring the Real Estate and Capital Projects deliver optimises cost, carbon and cash value add and programmes for consolidation, change or growth where needed within our CRES standards.

• Support the NA Real Estate and capital lifecycle management to include OPEX budget impact, driving efficiencies and financial value.

• Provide ongoing performance improvement and operational value to existing ways of working for value and efficiency

• Coordinate real estate longterm planning ensuring continuity of portfolio with minimum disruption to Diageo's business operations while partnering with CRES Global Real Estate.

• Align with all Supplier and Diageo's systems used to meet its health and safety obligations.

• Deliver our 2030 targets with respect to Sustainability - waste, water, carbon, aligning CRES with Diageo's Society 2030 ambition.

Team and 3rd Parties

• Ensuring optimal delivery of key supplier real estate and project contracts to address business needs and release value.

• Manage Fleet vendor and budget to provide support to our Commercial sales and business vehicle requirements

Governance, Risk, Performance Measurement & Reporting

• Share, roll out and embed best in class practice in CRES activities i.e., across NA

• Ensure compliance with standards and policies within CRES, manage all CRES related real estate and project risks.

• Measuring and reporting to the CRES SLT on real estate and project metrics, plus key NA regional stakeholders

• Establishing cross functional teams and holding them to account for the governance of decisions and change projects for their market.

• Compliance with Risk Management Standard and all compliance & governance, CARM controls, SOA etc

• Ability to quickly assimilate new information and expand areas of expertise.

• Proven track record in delivering portfolio performance, as well as the ability to deliver and manage a wide variety of real estate projects while working with others, both within CRES, across an organisation and partnering with external Performance Partners.

• Be able to display knowledge of change and programme management i.e. first or second gen outsourcing, real estate strategies, construction/fit-out/relocation projects/initiatives

• Experience in real estate strategic and operational management services and external partners across NA markets

• Awareness and management of CRES Risk and governance

Experience / skills required:

• Strong experience of managing IFM and Property Management services across a range of buildings / asset types.

• At least 7 years leadership / management experience in CRES related function.

• Experience in and / or a good understanding of Diageo or equivalent organisation

• Highly self-motivated and pro-active with effective communication skills

• Ability to align key client groups with potentially conflicting priorities and to effectively communicate with/challenge senior leaders.

• Track record to work with others, both within CRES and across an organisation

• Be able to display knowledge of change and programme management i.e. first or second gen outsourcing, IFM initiatives

• Understanding of Supplier and CRES IFM performance metrics and communication thereof

• Experience of managing Sustainability programmes/targets across the CRES lifecycle, and fleet

• Awareness and management of CRES Risk and governance policy and delivery of such

Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: Diageo-JR1123924

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-03-13T19:17:06