Contracts Manager

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As a Real Estate Professional in Site & Facilities Services, you will provide facilities operations and management services, advice, support, and planning for all aspects of owned/leased facilities and physical plant infrastructure. This role involves establishing and building client relationships, both internally within IBM and externally with tenants.

Your primary responsibilities will include

• Manage Facilities Operations: Oversee the day-to-day operations of facilities, ensuring compliance with environmental, energy, health, and safety programs. This includes managing and tracking budgets, project schedules, and deliverables, as well as identifying and mitigating risks.
• Coordinate Construction Projects: Lead construction projects from planning to execution, ensuring timely completion and budget adherence. This involves collaborating with clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders to meet project objectives.
• Develop Client Relationships: Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal IBM clients and external tenants, providing excellent customer service and support to meet their facilities needs.
• Track and Analyze Facilities Data: Measure and track key facilities metrics, including contract deliverables, business controls, space and population, commodity use, and waste disposal. This data will inform budget preparation, tracking, and reporting.
• Maintain Audit Readiness: Ensure facilities operations are audit-ready, generating reports and managing upgrades and asset management of building management systems as needed.
• Facilities Operations Management: Experience with managing day-to-day facilities operations, ensuring compliance with environmental, energy, health, and safety programs, and managing budgets, project schedules, and deliverables.
• Construction Project Coordination: Experience with leading construction projects from planning to execution, ensuring timely completion and budget adherence, and collaborating with clients, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
• Contract Management: Experience with managing contracts, including tracking deliverables, business controls, and budgets, and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations.
• Facilities Data Analysis: Experience with measuring and tracking key facilities metrics, including space and population, commodity use, and waste disposal, and using data to inform budget preparation and tracking.
• Building Management Systems: Experience with managing upgrades and asset management of building management systems, ensuring audit readiness and generating reports as needed.
• Contract Negotiation Skills: Experience with negotiating contracts, including lease agreements, construction contracts, and facilities management contracts. Ability to develop and implement effective contract negotiation strategies.
• Space Planning Expertise: Experience with space planning and design, including analyzing space utilization and developing plans to optimize space usage.
• Budget Management Tools: Experience with budget management tools and software, including financial analysis and reporting. Ability to develop and manage budgets for facilities operations and construction projects. Slovakia Enterprise Operations Hybrid Professional BRATISLAVA, SK