Senior Project Manager, GMNA Real Estate
Yesterday• Detroit, MI
Description
Work Arrangement
Hybrid - this role is required to work a hybrid schedule, 3 days a week onsite in Detroit, MI.
About the Role:
Global Real Estate is a dynamic function at GM, responsible for a diverse portfolio exceeding 300 million square feet across manufacturing, logistics, office, and retail asset classes. As the North America Real Estate team evolves and expands, we are seeking to add up to three (3) impactful Project Managers to grow our capabilities and capacity.
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing leasing, acquisition, and disposition of real property assets, ensuring alignment with GM's strategic objectives and delivering exceptional value to stakeholders. Reporting to the Group Manager of either Manufacturing or Non-Manufacturing, this position will serve as the real estate expert and relationship manager for internal GM customers such as Customer Care & Aftersales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing & Supply Chain, Product Development, Connected Customer Experience, IT, and Design.
What You'll Do
- Conduct site searches, develop transaction strategies, and manage timelines for real estate projects.
- Negotiate real estate contracts, including business terms and legal language, directly with owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, and other parties.
- Engage stakeholders involved in transactions, including business units, legal, environmental, consultants, and brokers.
- Ensure uniform delivery of real estate services consistent with GM policies and procedures.
- Manage corporate real estate documents and information workflows.
- Provide support for business unit budgeting and financial planning.
- Deliver presentations to leadership at divisional and corporate levels.
- Collaborate with Public Policy and interface with local authorities on land use, permitting, entitlements, and property matters.
- Champion the Infrastructure & Corporate Citizenship brand, increasing awareness and engagement among business partners, service providers, and contractors.
- Travel as required to support project execution.
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Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of real estate experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Real Estate or a related field of study.
- Capability to lead projects involving internal stakeholders and external resources and be skilled in negotiations, financial analysis and a broad range of real estate matters including legal and environmental.
- Strong business acumen and, solid interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated, organized, creative, and success oriented.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), chat and virtual meeting tools (e.g. Teams, Slack), and experience using AI.
Preferred Qualifications
- Diverse experience in corporate real estate, brokerage or tenant representation, economic development, and real estate investment/ development.
- MBA and/or JD.
- Active Real Estate License or Broker's License.
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.
The selected candidate will be required to travel < 25% for this role.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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Client-provided location(s): Detroit, MI
Job ID: General_Motors-JR-202601829
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-02-14T00:13:01
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Stock Purchase Program
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Woman founded/led
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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