Overview
This role involves providing legal expertise and advisory services related to commercial real estate leasing, facilities, and operational professional services agreements supporting a global business footprint. The position requires managing complex transactions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support strategic objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and internal policies.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial real estate leases, subleases, licenses to occupy, lease amendments, and ancillary real property agreements across multiple global jurisdictions.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of operational professional services agreements, including facilities management, construction contracts, outsourced operations, financial services transactions, consulting, corporate security, and other vendor contracts.
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor to senior business leaders on real estate and operational vendor matters.
- Partner closely with client groups such as Workplace, Real Estate, Finance, Corporate Security, and Operations teams.
- Collaborate with teams including Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Deal Management, Finance & Strategy, Tax, Security, and Third Party Risk Management to build efficiencies.
- Develop and implement improvements to tools, processes, training, and playbooks to manage high-volume workstreams and educate internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure commercial relationships comply with applicable laws, data privacy and security policies, global privacy regulations, and outsourced services guidelines.
- Identify and evaluate business and legal risks related to lease obligations, landlord/tenant matters, and operational service arrangements, and develop creative mitigation strategies.
- Communicate complex legal issues clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Manage competing priorities and workloads effectively.
- Provide counsel on lease obligations, landlord/tenant issues, operational risk management, compliance, and vendor governance.
- Manage relationships with global outside counsel and serve as a point of escalation.
Requirements
- 6–8+ years of relevant legal experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department supporting commercial real estate leasing and/or operational professional services contracting.
- At least 3 years of experience negotiating complex commercial leases or operational services agreements.
- Deep knowledge of commercial lease structures, landlord/tenant rights and obligations, and real estate transaction mechanics in one or more jurisdictions.
- Proven ability to negotiate a broad range of operational professional services agreements with a practical, business-minded approach.
- Strong business judgment and ability to make decisions amid ambiguity and imperfect information.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple deals simultaneously under tight deadlines.
- Clear and concise communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex issues simply.
- Strong project management skills and attention to detail.
- Proactive ownership mentality with enthusiasm and resourcefulness.
- Humility, curiosity about the evolving industry, a team-first attitude, and a good sense of humor.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience advising high-growth companies on real estate or operational expansion.
- Experience managing a global or multi-jurisdiction commercial lease portfolio.
- Experience working closely with procurement, real estate, or facilities functions.
- Experience negotiating enterprise-level outsourced or managed services agreements.
- Familiarity with financial services, fintech, or technology company environments.
Location
This role supports a global footprint and involves managing transactions across multiple jurisdictions.