Manager, Real Estate & Strategic Planning

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Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Intuitive is seeking an analytical, collaborative, and business-oriented Manager, Real Estate & Strategic Planning to join the Real Estate & Workplace Services (REWS) organization. This role supports global real estate strategy, long-range planning, portfolio scenario modeling, and investment analysis to help inform enterprise growth, space planning, and capital allocation decisions.

The Manager, Real Estate & Strategic Planning will help develop integrated, data-driven real estate strategies by connecting business demand, headcount and space requirements, portfolio options, operational constraints, and financial implications. The role works closely with REWS leadership and collaborates with Global Operations, Logistics, Operational Industrial Engineering, Construction, Workplace Services, Finance, and other REWS stakeholders.

This position contributes to the speed, quality, consistency, and transparency of real estate decision support. The Manager will support standardization and automation of space-planning models, develop scenarios and leadership-ready recommendations, engage proactively with business partners, and help prepare analysis in advance of major occupancy, expansion, and capital decisions.

Essential Job Duties

Real Estate Portfolio Strategy

·       Maintain and support the strategic view of the global real estate portfolio, including current-state needs, future demand, constraints, risks, and opportunities.

·       Support portfolio strategies that align real estate decisions with enterprise growth, operational requirements, and long-term financial objectives.

·       Identify and evaluate strategic options for expansions, consolidations, relocations, renewals, and other portfolio actions.

·       Coordinate real estate strategy development activities with execution teams and help ensure decisions, assumptions, and accountability are clearly documented.

·       Contribute to process improvements and knowledge-sharing practices that strengthen REWS planning capability.

Long-Range Planning & Scenario Modeling

·       Support LRM3 and other facilities planning activities in partnership with business and functional stakeholders.

·       Build and maintain scenario models that integrate headcount projections, regional requirements, space standards, utilization, timing, and portfolio capacity.

·       Develop multiple planning scenarios, sensitivities, and decision points to clarify trade-offs, dependencies, cost, and operational impacts.

·       Improve and help automate the current space-planning model to reduce manual intervention, improve repeatability, and enable more consistent scenario development.

Financial & Investment Analysis

·   Partner with FP&A on financial modeling and investment analysis for real estate alternatives.

·   Assess total cost, cash flow, capital requirements, timing, risk, and other financial implications of strategic real estate options.

·   Prepare fact-based recommendations that balance business requirements, operational feasibility, portfolio strategy, and financial viability.

·   Maintain transparent assumptions, source references, and model documentation.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Governance

·       Serve as a planning and strategy partner across REWS and collaborate with Global Operations, Logistics, Operational Industrial Engineering, Construction, Workplace Services, and Finance.

·       Support operating rhythms, planning inputs, decision processes, and escalation paths that strengthen accountability and reduce organizational friction.

·   Engage stakeholders early to understand business scope, identify needs in advance, and develop long-term solutions rather than reactive responses.

·   Align stakeholders around a common set of assumptions, scenarios, recommendations, and leadership messages.

Executive Communication & Decision Support

·       Translate real estate, space, operational, and financial analyses into clear leadership-ready narratives, recommendations, and decision materials.

·       Prepare presentations, dashboards, scenario summaries, and portfolio updates for REWS leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

·       Communicate risks, trade-offs, dependencies, and recommended actions in a concise and consistent manner.

·       Support leadership discussions and respond to planning requests with coordinated, high-quality analysis.

Data, Tools & Continuous Improvement

·   Define and maintain planning methodologies, assumptions, model controls, and documentation standards.

·   Identify opportunities to automate recurring analyses and improve the speed, quality, and usability of portfolio planning outputs.

·   Perform additional duties and strategic projects as assigned.