Senior Manager of Global Real Estate and Indirect Spend

 

 

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Senior Manager Real Estate and Indirect Spend!! 

Location: Austin, TX

Job ID: 46584

 

As HID advances toward its next stage of global scale, effective management of our real estate and indirect spend portfolios becomes essential to operational stability, cost efficiency, and readiness for 2030. The Senior Manager, Global Real Estate & Indirect Spend Strategy plays a central role in this progress by integrating planning, analytics, and execution across regions and business areas.

This role delivers the financial modeling, scenario planning, and performance insights that guide footprint decisions, supplier strategies, consolidation opportunities, and acquisition‑related integration. It provides a forward‑looking view of how HID operates—covering space requirements, supplier dependencies, contract structures, service delivery, and total cost—enabling leaders to make confident, data‑driven decisions.

Partnering closely with Business Areas, corporate functions, and ASSA ABLOY, the Senior Manager ensures both Real Estate and Indirect Spend operate with consistent standards, reliable data, and predictable outcomes. Responsibilities include stewardship of spend and real estate metrics, development of business intelligence tools, oversight of program delivery, and coordination with outsourced partners to ensure commitments are met.

Success in this role requires sound judgment, strong presence, and the ability to influence without escalating. Acting as a connective tissue across teams, the Senior Manager enhances predictability, reduces surprises, strengthens budget and supplier discipline, and helps shape a footprint and cost structure that can scale with HID’s growth

 

Who are we? 

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo 

 

 

As our Senior Manager Real Estate and Indirect Spend, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Developing financial models and business cases that support HID’s 2030 Strategy, Real Estate footprint decisions, Indirect Spend initiatives, and MFP work.
• Providing scenario analysis and structured recommendations to help leaders understand cost, risk, operational impact, and long‑term implications.
• Supporting end‑to‑end execution of HID’s MFP program by shaping business cases, coordinating cross‑functional inputs, and tracking deliverables from proposal through completion.
•  Managing program reporting, milestones, risk identification, and stakeholder communication to ensure predictable and transparent execution.
• Providing analysis, modeling, and operational coordination to help the Real Estate team assess space requirements, validate consolidation proposals, and monitor progress.
• Supporting the Indirect Spend organization with category spend analytics, process mapping, compliance tracking, and visibility tools that strengthen governance and execution.
• Supporting acquisition integration by evaluating footprint opportunities, indirect spend efficiencies, and transition needs across both organizations.
• Delivering integrated financial analysis for long‑range planning (3–5 years), site‑level budgeting, functional spend builds, and allocation/cross‑charge models across Real Estate and Indirect Spend.
•  Supporting annual FP and FC cycles by developing assumptions, consolidating forecasts, validating inputs, and ensuring accurate submissions.
• Providing financial oversight for capital expenditure programs, including project modeling, spend tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Rebuilding data governance across Real Estate and Indirect Spend to ensure consistent definitions, clean inputs, and reliable reporting.
• Maintaining the savings pipeline (Provolito), providing accurate tracking of savings, spend, compliance,