Global Real Estate & Facilities - SME Facility Services & Space Management

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. 

 

 

 

YOUR FUTURE ROLE       

In this global role, you will act as the Subject Matter Expert for Facility Services & Space Management within SAP’s Global Real Estate & Facilities (GRF) organization. You will ensure that SAP maintains best-in-class standards for facility operations and space management across more than 200 locations worldwide.

 

What you’ll build

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the global framework, standards, and guidelines for Facility Services and Space Management.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership to regional Facility Services teams, ensuring alignment with GRF’s global operating model.
• Manage and steer global vendor relationships, selecting service providers, monitoring performance, resolving escalations, and driving innovation in delivery models.
• Guarantee business continuity for Facility Services globally and act as escalation point for critical operational issues.
• Own and evolve space management standards, ensuring consistency across all regions and alignment with workplace and business strategies.
• Evaluate the impact of workspace changes on employee satisfaction, productivity, and collaboration, and translate insights from employee feedback into actionable improvements.
• Drive innovation in facility services and space solutions, challenging existing practices and identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, sustainability, and user experience.

 

What you bring:

You bring deep expertise in Facility Services & Space Management and the ability to define and implement global standards in a complex, matrixed environment. You are equally comfortable with strategic leadership, vendor management, and operational problem-solving, and you thrive on shaping frameworks that ensure consistency and innovation across regions.

You offer:

• A degree in Business Administration, Real Estate, Facility Management, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Facility Services operations, best practices, and innovations, ideally in a global corporate environment.
• Experience managing global vendors and service providers, with a proven ability to drive performance and partnership.
• Track record in space management frameworks and tools, with the ability to connect workplace design, usage, and employee experience.
• Strong project management skills, with experience leading global initiatives and change programs.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills to ensure alignment across regions and functions.

 

Where you belong:

The Global Real Estate & Facilities Organization (GRF) helps SAP run better and is a key enabler for employee efficiency, innovation capability, employer attractiveness and ultimately SAP’s brand value. As a truly global organization, we are responsible for more than 200 locations in more than 70 countries worldwide, managing a real-estate portfolio of more than 1.5 million square meters of office space. In addition, GRF is responsible for operating the SAP Data Centres.

As partners for SAP’s business units, we strive for world-class office solutions focusing on employee experience, customer experience and supporting SAP's financial ambitions.

 

What you can expect is professional onboarding, exciting career progression, a diverse work environment providing growth opportunities, learning & development possibilities, and an international business network for you to leverage. Interesting non-work related activities (volunteering, charity, sport events,..)

This role is based at the ultra-modern Metronom office building directly above the Nove Butovice metro station. The location encompasses SAP's vision for the perfect work-life balance by featuring uniquely decorated relaxation rooms, parents' and kids' room.

BENEFITS

Yearly bonuses, sick days paid and sick leaves fully refunded, flexible start/end of working hours, contributions to the pension/life insurance, meal vouchers, holidays 5 weeks, educational courses, coaching and mentoring