Project Manager, Real Estate will help manage Expeditors’ Americas real estate portfolio ensuring that the real estate portfolio aligns with business objectives, financial goals, and operational needs by driving data-informed decisions across leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and space utilization.
Responsibilities and Tasks
- Support business cases for acquisitions, renewals, relocations, consolidations, and exits
- Partner with transaction teams and external brokers on leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions
- Ensure transactions support long-term portfolio and financial goals
- Develop and execute portfolio strategies aligned with corporate objectives, workforce plans, and growth forecasts
- Evaluate portfolio performance using financial, utilization, and market data
- Analyze occupancy costs, lease structures (NNN, gross), CAM, and lifecycle costs
- Identify opportunities to optimize footprint, reduce cost, and improve asset performance
- 5+ years of experience in real estate portfolio management and corporate real estate.
- Experience managing large, multi-market portfolios preferred.
- Strategic thinking and portfolio optimization
- Proven experience with logistics, manufacturing, or distribution-focused portfolios
- Written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with real estate and construction financial budgeting and project capex management.
- Able to pivot quickly, reprioritize based on market shifts, and develop creative solutions.
- Software proficiency skills (e.g., MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, portfolio database management).
- Expertise in managing vendors for real estate transactions, space planning and construction cost estimation.
- Financial acumen with the ability to interpret P&L, ROI and expense structures.
Expected base salary: $140,000– $150,000
Expeditors offers excellent benefits:
- Paid Vacation (first year prorated based off month of hire then eligible for 15 days)
- Holidays (15)
- Flexible Days (2)
- Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
- Commuter Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Learning & Development Program
- Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
- Role can be located in Seattle, WA area or Dallas, TX