Regional Portfolio Manager UK, Europe, ME and Americas

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Regional Portfolio Manager to oversee the full end-to-end lifecycle of all leased office locations across the UK, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. With responsibility for a portfolio of more than 40 sites and 60 leases, this role sits at the heart of the Corporate Real Estate function and plays a critical part in shaping how the organization occupies space globally. From strategy development and business case creation through to acquisition, negotiation, renewals, exits, and reinstatements, you will oversee all lease-related activity while ensuring strong commercial management, governance, and alignment with organizational needs.

This is a highly varied opportunity, covering a wide-ranging, international portfolio and offering the scope to truly make the role your own. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders and cross functional partners to advise on optimal workplace solutions, manage portfolio performance, and leverage real-time market intelligence to support informed decision making. As part of a small, agile team, you’ll benefit from a short hop to the top, direct access to senior stakeholders, and the ability to shape impactful property strategies quickly and effectively. You’ll also take ownership of global lease administration, valuations, and financial stewardship across leased assets, ensuring transparency and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

This role is both strategic and hands-on, offering significant visibility and the chance to influence major real estate strategy across multiple regions. You will manage external partners, drive high-quality negotiation outcomes, enhance global processes, and ensure the organization maintains the right workplaces in the right locations on the right terms. For someone looking for a broad remit, genuine autonomy, and the chance to make a meaningful mark, this is an exceptionally impactful and rewarding opportunity.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

Essential:

• Extensive experience managing regional commercial property portfolios in a corporate or educational environment.
• Ability to build strong, trusting relationships and effectively influence and gain support for ideas.
• Possess a sound understanding of the real estate industry and strong persuasive presentation and negotiation skills.
• Strong commercial acumen, able to place real estate in a wider business context and capable of providing robust and accurate advice to business divisions.
• Strong financial, analytical and planning skills.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), comfortable with operating across the organization and able to influence business stakeholders.
• Highly customer-focused, willing to strive for excellence.
• Flexible and adaptable, willing to take on new challenges and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience of managing real estate software systems and lease databases / outsourced lease admin arrangements.
• Practical experience in areas such as U.K business rates and valuations.

Desirable:

• Experience with ad hoc data modeling.
• Recognized qualification in business or real estate related subjects.
• Member of industry recognized organizations. Recognized real estate qualification - Chartered surveyor (RICS) or equivalent.
• Experience working with technical teams to create dashboards and other analytical tools from disparate data sources.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

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