Job Description Summary

Reporting to the Global Procurement Director- Plant Indirect and Real Estate, the Associate Director - Real Estate is responsible for managing the Company portfolio of BD’s leased and owned properties for North and Latin America.

Job Description

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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Key Responsibilities:

Advising BD Leadership on how best to plan and optimize the Real Estate Portfolio in pursuit of BD objectives. This is done by:

• Working closely with the Regional & Business Presidents, Heads of Finance, Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) Strategy & Transformation team, and other Business and Regional Leaders to understand business strategies and from this to develop forward-looking views and plans of the required spaces; and acquiring and divesting space accordingly. 

• Regular interactions with Executive Leadership Team (EXLT) to advise and influence decision making in real estate programs to ensure not only financial outcomes, but also to support human capital management and strategic long-term company and BU goals.

• Spaces requiring refit / renovations will be coordinated with the appropriate BD organizations and external suppliers.  Additionally, a master database of leases, titles, etc. will be centrally maintained and coordinated to manage renewals, tax payments, and insurance assessments.

Strategic Orientation:

This role, in coordination with the Associate Director- Real Estate for EMEA & GAR is the focal point for ensuring the $100M+ in global real estate lease spend and the entire BD property portfolio (approximately 25 million square feet over 300+ sites in 50+ countries); is managed appropriately and consistently with BD values. Specific activities will include:

Facility Planning

• Long Range Planning –with the EXLT, businesses and regional leaders identify areas of likely future corporate growth and retraction; make selective strategic acquisitions of land; and developing and executing appropriate exit strategies

• Master Planning – working with business units, develop master plan for sites when land and/or existing facilities are to be converted into active/different uses.

• Acquisition – working with business units to identify and acquire (either lease or purchase as is appropriate) land / facilities.

• Disposal – working with business units to identify surplus assets, reviewing potential uses across the BD network, and disposal of the assets in the most effective manner.

• Workplace Standards – Working with HR, Facilities, Global Construction, and other expert groups internally and externally to ensure that our workplace layouts and policies are attractors for talent, are efficient working spaces and help deliver increased ROI for BD.

Ongoing Asset Management:

• Database Management – Ensuring the maintenance of the global database of all leased and owned property to a) enable timely reviews by internal departments (i.e., risk reviews by Risk Management)     b) compliance with external requests and c) to feed updates to BD’s financial system for lease accounting

• Tax Management – Payment (or coordination thereof with the business and Finance) of taxes applicable for each facility.  Appropriately challenging assessments as needed and as possible within locales to manage the aggregate tax liability.

Supplier Management:

• Ensure that BD’s lead Real Estate partners deliver the value to the relationship, both in support of transactional and administrative activities, but also input to long term strategies.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• As a key team member, ensure timely Real Estate input to M&A teams to ensure costs, issues and risks are identified and planned for. This may involve bringing other functional expertise onboard such as Global Construction or Facilities.

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