Director - Head of Real Estate (f/m/d)

The Head of Real Estate holds end-to-end strategic responsibility for Deutsche Börse Group’s global workplaces, encompassing more than 30 corporate locations worldwide. This role shapes the Group’s real estate strategy, ensuring that offices reflect a modern, high-performance work environment that enables productivity, collaboration, and employee wellbeing.

Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

You will lead a global team accountable for the operational excellence, continuous improvement, and transformation of our existing locations, while driving the planning and delivery of new sites in alignment with long-term business objectives. This includes overseeing a broad ecosystem of external partners to ensure consistent, best-in-class service quality across all regions. A key part of the role is close collaboration with real estate teams across our subsidiaries to advance an “under one roof” concept, creating a more integrated workplace experience, aligning related processes and standards across Deutsche Börse Group.

Your responsibilities

• Provide corporate Real Estate Management expertise
• Ensure smooth operations and management for dedicated Deutsche Börse Group premises
• Deliver construction projects of various sizes for existing and new locations worldwide
• Manage complex contract negotiations, e.g., lease contracts and contracts with general contractors
• Lead a team of 30+ experienced facility management experts globally
• Enhance the Real Estate & Facility Management related Target Operating Model (TOM) in line with the ongoing “One Group” project
• Ensure compliance with all relevant internal and external rules and regulations and proper documentation for all assigned premises
• Secure budget adherence in line with defined targets
• Manage the relationship with Physical Security, Corporate IT, and Business Continuity Management teams
• Steer external service providers supporting building operations such as technical maintenance, cleaning, in-house services, and catering

Your profile

• University degree in Economics, Engineering, or a related field
• At least 7 years of experience leading mid to large international teams
• Minimum 5-10 years in senior facility management roles with a focus on corporate real estate topics and building operations
• Proven track record in project management and delivery experience with budget responsibility
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex topics clearly and concisely, used to communicate to C‑Level Management
• Proven business partnership ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills
• High drive and flexibility, including on‑site presence and travel as needed
• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken); French language skills are an advantage