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Job Summary
The Manager, Real Estate, plays a key role within the Enterprise Real Estate (“ERE”) Transaction and Portfolio Management team, offering comprehensive support across all Comcast Connectivity and Platforms business units. These units occupy more than 2,800 properties worldwide, encompassing a broad spectrum of commercial real estate from office buildings and call centers to industrial and flex facilities, towers, land and development sites, as well as data centers.
This position is responsible for leading or assisting with lease negotiations, site selection, project management, portfolio planning, and reporting, focusing particularly on critical infrastructure and data centers. The role involves frequent collaboration with business leaders and several cross-functional departments, such as Legal, IT, Finance, Tax, EHS, and Risk. Strong relationship management skills are vital for success in this position.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Negotiate lease, sublease, license, and purchase agreements directly or through brokers.
- Maintain a current portfolio of projects and support departmental analytics and reporting.
- Manage brokers and other third-party service providers.
- Conduct financial analyses for real estate options, such as own-versus-lease assessments, consolidation opportunities, and comparative site reviews.
- Develop and present deal justifications, approval documents, and planning materials.
- Participate in annual strategic planning initiatives.
- Monitor industry and technological trends.
- Perform additional real estate transaction, planning, and reporting tasks as assigned.
- Ensure accuracy in contracts, reporting, and project documentation by demonstrating strong attention to detail.
Requirements:
- Have 7+ years of experience managing commercial real estate transactions or planning across multi-market portfolios.
- Possess experience with IT organizations, critical infrastructure, or data center properties.
- Demonstrate strong financial analysis skills, including comparative cost analysis, time value of money, and valuation.
- Show proven ability to handle multiple projects independently in fast-paced environments.
- Be willing to travel and work outside normal hours as needed.
- Hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
Bonus to have:
- Hold real estate or data center certifications (CCIM, MCR, SLCR, CDCD/P).
- Have direct experience working with commercial real estate brokers.
- Possess a graduate degree (MBA, MSRE) or a relevant certificate.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
- This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Skills
Project Management, Real Estate, Strategic Planning
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Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
5-7 Years
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