Principal Transaction Manager, Corporate Real Estate

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About the Team

The Global Real Estate & Workplace team creates and continuously improves Workday’s productive and safe office environments while supporting our core values and distinction as a great place to work.  With this critical contribution to the company in mind, we partner with other Workday departments to ensure that we are successful in delivering on this goal.

About the Role

We are looking for a Principal Transaction Manager to drive our most sophisticated Corporate Real Estate (CRE) deals. In this critical individual contributor capacity, you will lead transactions from the initial Letter of Intent (LOI) stage through to completion. Serving as the primary point of contact, you will coordinate with external brokers and internal stakeholders to ensure each deal is compliant, de-risked, and perfectly matched with our strategic objectives. Success in this position requires a project management mastery, along with strong financial and legal acumen. We are looking for a professional who excels at resolving ambiguity, managing global strategies, and transforming intricate data points into an actionable path forward.

Responsibilities:

Deal Execution & Strategy

• End-to-End Leadership: Direct the full lifecycle of high-value, global commercial real estate transactions, ensuring all critical milestones are met on time and within budget.

• Strategic Planning: Prepare, recommend, and implement comprehensive transaction strategies for both the acquisition and disposition of properties.

• Investment Committee Preparedness: Develop and communicate highly sophisticated investment recommendations and deal summaries.

• Operational Tracking: Track all transaction activity, driving clean and effective partnership to impacted stakeholders, both internal and external.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Create a checklist that incorporates all elements needed to make a decision that includes aspects from Operations, Safety/Security, Design/construction and sustainability. This should be shared with Brokers when reading out options and weighting them for selection purposes.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with internal teams—including Design & Construction, Operations, Safety/Security and Legal—as well as external brokers to ensure total alignment on all transactional nuances.

• Operational Integration: Lead new initiatives, processes, standards, and operational plans that support and elevate broader functional goals.

• Seamless Post-Closing Hand-offs: Facilitate a clean, structured hand-off to Operations teams post-closing to guarantee minimal business disruption and on-time project execution.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive corporate real estate experience, successfully executing complex transaction management strategies, including commercial acquisitions, dispositions, and leases.

• Bachelor's Degree is required

Other Qualifications:

• Proven expertise in managing and executing complex, high-value commercial real estate transactions on a global scale.  

• Strong history of creating significant financial value and delivering impactful, de-risked results for corporate portfolios.

• Master-level project management skills with the ability to manage multiple fluid, high-stakes deals simultaneously.

• Advanced understanding of real estate financial modeling, forecasting, transaction accounting, and value creation metrics.

• Comfort operating in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments with the ability to carve a clear path forward amidst incomplete information.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively orchestrate, influence, and unite diverse internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to confidently navigate real estate contracts, LOIs, leases, and purchase agreements in partnership with legal counsel.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $141,000 USD - $211,600 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $134,000 USD - $238,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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