Microsoft Real Estate Acquisition Manager 

United States, Washington 

205595130

The Infrastructure Planning & Acquisitionis responsible forthe acquisition and planning of Data Centeris responsible forthe delivery and pre-positioning of Data Center

The Real Estate Acquisitions Manager, 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 place. 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.

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

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 3+ years relevant experience
  • OR 5+ years equivalent experience.
• 5+ years siteselection, real estate, or entitlement experience
• 3+ years’ experience in transaction history in an industrial/commercial or data center real estate operation with a national footprintleveraginga combination of internal and external resources

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 twoyears 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)

• A track recordof coordinating high quality projects in an atmosphere where speed, flexibility,frugalityand heavy workload are the expected norm.

• experiencemanaging complex and/or multi-party contracts

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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