Real Estate Acquisition Manager

Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) have been developing and executing strategies to deliver owned and developed land sites, to scale our business into the future. Our focus is on smart growth, directing strategic scaling through high quality, cost effective and innovative solutions to meet demand and to reduce cost and impact of our overall delivery. Sitting within Infrastructure Planning & Acquisitions (IPA), the Land Acquisition team is responsible for the delivery and pre-positioning of real estate to build Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

The APAC Land Acquisition Manager within the global land acquisition team will be based in the APAC region, reporting directly to the APAC Director and will be responsible for real estate transactions in the APAC portfolio. The Land Acquisition Team is responsible for the delivery and pre-positioning of Data Center real estate needed to build out Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

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This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a significant contribution and impact to one of the largest data center portfolios. You’ll have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to improve and expand our infrastructure in various markets.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

**Responsibilities**:

- Evaluate, select, negotiate, and recommend acquisitions for approval.
- Ability to negotiate effectively.
- Manage the acquisition process for land within assigned geographies, including the management of cross boarder teams formed of multiple client groups, co-workers, contractors, and vendors.
- Coordination with development, engineering, construction, project managers and legal teams amongst others, to enable evaluation of acquisition targets.
- Manage multiple assignments across APAC.
- Provide input into the long-term delivery strategy to drive real estate acquisitions that support the Microsoft Cloud transformation.
- Ability to travel internationally, at times with short notice.

**Qualifications**:
**Basic Qualifications**:

- The right person will possess a combination of
- (a) both technical and business acumen;
- (b) minimum 10 years of experience in business development transactions, real estate transactions with significant technical components, site selection, economic development, and/or program/product management experience; and
- (c) familiarity with infrastructure development and operating environments.
- Be able to demonstrate a successful history of negotiation and deal-making experience.
- Ability to negotiate legal documents and interact with legal resources.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Ability to recognize and communicate real estate, technical, and construction requirements.
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or related fields.
- Positivity, especially in the face of ambiguity and dynamic project requirements.
- Proven track record of positively influencing teams and their leaders.
- Ability to connect and engage with all teams at all levels.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Master's Degree or higher (including Juris Doctor) in business, real estate, economic development, engineering, or related fields.
- Understanding of and experience in the data center industry, including data center siting and general operations.
- Transaction, project, or program management experience.
- Strong knowledge of alternative real estate transaction approaches, structures, and best practices, related development processes, and commercial/industrial site selection.
- Ability to understand & communicate high level electrical, power & cooling, fiber optics, and other technical requirements, particularly related to Internet infrastructure.