The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) team provides real estate transaction expertise, business partnering, occupancy planning, design and construction, workplace strategy and facility operations for Amazon’s corporate office portfolio globally. This role is on the Global Business Partnering (GBP) team who’s overarching purpose is to create a bridge between each business unit and GREF to align real estate strategies in support of business objectives. As a Manager on GREF’s Business Partnering team, you will serve as a business partner (BP) for the Devices and Services (D&S) business unit, working with the org's and GREF’s senior leaders.

This role connects Amazon’s D&S business globally to all of GREF’s services and programs, requiring a high-degree of cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and initiative. The role serves two primary functions: 1/ identify and reduce defects pertaining to D&S corporate real estate so that we may improve both D&S and GREF’s ability to scale; and 2/ elevate the influence of GREF’s suite of products and programs within D&S to provide greater customer experience and efficiencies.

The optimal candidate is an experienced business partner who excels in an entrepreneurial culture, building trust quickly. They have a strong mastery of the range of challenges and scope within corporate real estate and workplace experience. They have vision, strong leadership and communication skills, and are comfortable with C-Suite executives. This person must be able to dive deep and deliver on behalf of the customer while dealing with ambiguity.

The role will implement real estate and workplace reporting mechanisms to support Amazon leaders with the data, analytics, and insights necessary to inform their business goals and spend approvals.


Key job responsibilities
• Partner across enterprise partners (e.g., Finance, PXT, Public Relations, Legal, Security, etc.), all cross-functional GREF real estate teams, Corporate FP&A, and Public Policy to support executive leaders in managing through ambiguity while inspecting and understanding the consequences of choices and trade-offs.
• Build systems and tracking mechanisms to deliver agreed upon SLAs.
• Establish rhythm of business for each org, integrating GREF into business-level OP1/OP2 planning process and WBR/MBR/QBR cadence.
• Implement reporting mechanisms to support D&S leaders with data, analytics, metrics and research to make the best decisions.
• Balance D&S expectations and needs with Amazon fiduciary stewardship, as well as cost savings mandates and GREF standards/protocols.
• Lead and support the development and delivery of executive-level real estate presentations, recommendations, and business cases; incorporate input from GREF teams to secure decisions and alignment for those presentations.
• Oversee issue escalation processes.
• Partner with GREF teams and external stakeholders to drive the successful development, implementation, and execution of GREF strategies across organizations and regions
Provide thought leadership, industry best practices and market insights to D&S leadership to inform recommendations and decisions.