Senior Manager, International Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Services – London

This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced operator who values partnership, consistency, and practical execution. The role combines operational leadership with close collaboration across regions and functions, requiring regular engagement with local teams, landlords, and internal stakeholders. Success in this role is built on credibility, trust, and an ability to balance global standards with local business needs.

Responsibilities

Lead workplace services and facilities operations across a distributed leased office portfolio, ensuring safe, compliant, high-quality environments while maintaining consistent standards and hands-on operational oversight across regions. Lead site selection and end-to-end leasing activities, partnering with senior stakeholders to support negotiations, ensure operational readiness for new and changing locations, manage landlord relationships, and mitigate lease-related risk. Build trusted relationships with local and regional leaders, partner cross-functionally to align workplace services and priorities, and act as a strategic conduit to deliver global standards while respecting local needs and regulations. Lead and support workplace and facilities teams in London and Paris while collaborating with regional and US leadership to resolve issues, share best practices, and ensure consistent execution across locations. Develop and manage capital projects across leased locations, leading space planning and office reconfigurations, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring projects are delivered to scope, budget, quality, and schedule. Manage the regional facilities budget while overseeing vendor sourcing, contract optimization, performance management, and tracking financial and operational metrics. Own and maintain a comprehensive Health & Safety program across UK, Europe, and APAC, ensuring regulatory compliance, training, audits, and documentation across all sites.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Demonstrated experience managing facilities or workplace services across multiple leased offices and countries. Proven experience leading site selection and delivering leases through execution. Strong project management and delivery experience in occupied office environments. Proven experience leading distributed teams. Solid budget management and cost-efficiency experience. IOSH qualification required. Ability to operate across time zones and cultures. Additional European language skills (French, German, Spanish) a plus. Valid passport and willingness and ability to travel regularly (~25%)

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in the Blue Fin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing