Microsoft Land Acquisition Director 

United States, Washington 

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Land Acquisition Director, based in the United States, will report to the North American (NORAM)and play a pivotal role in leading efforts toland, even prior to zoning being in placewithin new markets as well ascurrent regions. This entails spearheading risk analysis and crafting presentations for scenarios and opportunities where such strategies areand beneficial.

Responsibilities include researching and coordinating opportunities to secure land by comprehensively understanding current land use and navigating the conversion process through zoning/entitlement. Additionally, the role involves accelerating market growth through proactive engagement with pre-construction activities in the NORAM regions.

, not only in the Americas but as a global resource to guide these transactions in other regions.

develop close working relationships with internal as well as external stakeholders, evaluate property solutions within our standards and guidelines, engage with municipalities,pre-closing off-site solutions needed to deliver.  You should also have a demonstrated ability to drive results related to

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 7+ years relevant experience
  • OR 10+ years equivalent experience.
• 7+yearssiteselection, real estate, or entitlement experience
• 7+ years’ experience in transaction history in an industrial/commercial or data center real estate operation with a national footprint

Other Requirements:

to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsfor this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will beto pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the real estate transaction process.
• Experience withreal estate options and/or zoning and easement relatedprocesses

• Ability to effectively communicate internal process requirements to various audiences (e.g.internal and external stakeholders)

• experiencemanaging complex and/or multi-party contracts

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 12, 2024.

• Evaluate, select, negotiate, and recommend acquisitionstructuresfor approval.

• Ability to negotiate effectivelyacross private owners,municipalities,and institutions

• deliverzoned

• alternative acquisition structuresfor land including tasks which can range from siteidentificationand criticaloffsite requirementsto municipal collaboration for pre-construction work.

• Coordination with development, engineering, construction, project managers and legal teams amongst others, to enable evaluation of acquisition targets.

• Guide and coach Land Acquisition Managers(including other regions) within a matrixed organization.

• manage external suppliers including technical firmsand utilitiesacross projects.

• Manage multiple assignments across US and Canada.

• Provide input into the long-term delivery strategy to drive real estate acquisitions that support the Microsoft Cloud transformation.

• This position will require periodic travel to assigned geographies.

• Embody our