Properties District Manager - East & Southern Africa

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GE is an equal opportunity employer, offering a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation.GE's Global Operations - Properties unit leads the full spectrum of real estate support from global facility management to construction projects worldwide to defining real estate strategy for GE locations. Reporting to the Regional Property Services Manager, SSA, responsibilities include Facilities Management operations, managing Security and Health & Safety programs at Regional GE offices in East & Southern Africa to ensure customer satisfaction and drive net operating income and growth.

Oversee all day-to-day facilities management operations, including communications systems, security, health & safety, mechanical and electrical and building services, procurement and office services, including through the management of external contractors.

Direct and monitor these external contractors and their performance, including customer care operations carried out by them, ensuring that local services and processes are in line with the agreed Global Operations - Properties practices.

Establish and develop relationships with local GE businesses and employee representatives to understand their business and to ensure that our services and solutions meet their needs while taking the global and regional business requirements into account.

Maintain strategies and policies for infrastructure management.

Implement and maintain EHS/SCM initiatives to ensure compliance with goals, objectives, required metrics, planning and scheduling deadlines, budget requirements, and proper reporting and documentation management.
Lead in meeting the current and projected Facility management requirements, establishing clear and measurable serviced delivery levels that support business objectives.

Maintain real property records in the Global Enterprise System property data base and other Global Operations - Properties operating systems, ensuring accuracy of location, space and environmental data for defined geography.

Ensure building documentation is maintained and regularly updated.

Monitor monthly financial performance of properties versus budget; control expenses as necessary to achieve goals.

Provide detailed scope requirements for renovation/space planning initiatives with implementation of associated project management disciplines.

Provide a clear and planned communication strategy to all key stakeholders and employees in East & Southern Africa market for GE.

Develop an annual operating plan (budget) for expenses and liquidations as well as an annual budget for rent billing for each facility for which s/he has responsibility.

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or international equivalent with 5+ years’ experience in facility or property management with a multi-national or global organization (OR in lieu of a diploma, a high school diploma/GED and 9 years' facilities/property management experience with a multi-national or global organization)

Knowledge of Environmental Health & Safety and/or Security Crisis Management

Proven project management experience

Experience directly managing vendors and staff across a diverse, geographically-dispersed portfolio

Familiarity with bid evaluation, design, purchasing and accounting principles

Experience with tenant/lease administration

Experience in developing and managing a budget


Eligibility requirements:

Must submit application for employment through COS (internal candidates) or www.gecareers.com (external candidates) to be considered for this position.

You must be willing to comply with pre-employment screening, which may include drug screening (where allowed by law), reference verification and background check.

You must have unrestricted authorization to work in South Africa.

You must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time.

You must be willing to work in an office in Midrand.

Bachelor's degree in business administration, real estate or related field

Proven organizational, project management, and analytical skills

Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver against measurable goals

Strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills

Clear and concise oral and written communications skills with ability to influence at all levels of the organization

Negotiates confidently with people at a senior level on both an internal and external basis; ability to deal with difficult situations

Independent thinker, capable of identifying emerging security and health and safety issues and recommending appropriate mitigation

Ability to organize multiple priorities, tasks, and requests

Ability to work alone and be self-reliant, demonstrating the ability to set challenging personal goals and the drive and determination to achieve them and make challenging decisions to maintain organizational objectives

Plans and organizes workloads to reflect work priorities throughout the year. Assist team to prioritize work. Consistently delivers work to tight deadlines, and works effectively on multiple tasks through effective management of the team.

Member of industry recognized associations such as BOMA, BIFM, IFMA or MAPM

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