Head of Real Estate Management (Global)
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Occupation Type
Property, housing and estate managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Type: Full Time
Duration: Permanent
Location: London, Glasgow or Manchester
Working Pattern: 2 days working from the office, 3 days remote
Department: Workplace & Legal Support Services
The Role
This role leads the delivery and execution of the Management Board’s global real estate strategy, focusing on rightsizing our footprint and modernising workplaces. It plays a pivotal part in reducing fixed premises cost per head, improving space flexibility, and enhancing the quality of workplace services for our legal delivery teams worldwide.
The Team
The role sits within Workplace & Legal Support Services, partnering closely with Regional COOs, Property & Facilities Management teams, and wider business services functions. The team is responsible for delivering consistent, high‑quality workplace experiences globally, supporting hybrid working, and driving continuous improvement across workplace operations.
Essential Skills & Experience
Workplace Strategy & Standards
Duration: Permanent
Location: London, Glasgow or Manchester
Working Pattern: 2 days working from the office, 3 days remote
Department: Workplace & Legal Support Services
The Role
This role leads the delivery and execution of the Management Board’s global real estate strategy, focusing on rightsizing our footprint and modernising workplaces. It plays a pivotal part in reducing fixed premises cost per head, improving space flexibility, and enhancing the quality of workplace services for our legal delivery teams worldwide.
The Team
The role sits within Workplace & Legal Support Services, partnering closely with Regional COOs, Property & Facilities Management teams, and wider business services functions. The team is responsible for delivering consistent, high‑quality workplace experiences globally, supporting hybrid working, and driving continuous improvement across workplace operations.
Essential Skills & Experience
Workplace Strategy & Standards
- Experience setting and maintaining high workplace standards within a large, complex organisation
- Strong understanding of global workplace trends, hybrid working models and space optimisation
- Ability to continuously benchmark and evolve workplace guidelines to meet changing business needs
- Demonstrable experience managing brokers, designers, construction contractors and regional FM teams
- Proven ability to deliver office fit‑outs, relocations, refurbishments or openings end‑to‑end
- Strong governance, value engineering and budgetary control skills
- Ability to maintain accurate lease and occupancy data and leverage it for strategic planning
- Skilled at preparing management reporting, insights, analysis and recommendations
- Evidence-based decision maker with strong judgement under pressure
- Ability to build strong internal networks across business services and practice groups
- Opportunity to shape and implement a global real estate strategy for an international firm
- High visibility across senior leadership, with direct impact on cost efficiency and workplace quality
- A broad remit combining strategy, project delivery, innovation and cross‑functional collaboration
- Modern, flexible working – A minimum of 2 days each week required from the office, 3 days from home.
- Join an award-winning global firm: Clyde & Co is ranked Band 1 in multiple practice areas by Chambers and Legal 500.
- Career progression and development – Structured learning and development programs, secondment opportunities and internal mobility across global offices.
- Award‑winning for pro bono work and recognised as an inclusive firm, with global DEI initiatives, leadership programmes, and community impact through volunteering and sustainability.
The Firm
When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
Our Commitment
Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.
A Note on Privacy
Please take a moment to read our privacy notice.. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.
If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.
This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.
A Note on Privacy
Please take a moment to read our privacy notice.. This describes what personal information Clyde & Co (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.
If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.
This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.