Location: Leeds/London

Contract Type: Permanent, Hybrid

Overview of the role

This is a Senior leadership role accountable for designing and delivering a global leasing strategy and ensuring operational excellence across a distributed office portfolio. You will lead a small, high impact central Corporate Real Estate team that sets policy, maintains a single source of truth for lease data, runs strategic cross regional negotiations and enables federated regional teams to make locally appropriate decisions.

Success depends on your ability to build trust, influence without mandate, and translate commercial insight into practical, adoptable solutions for a non-command and control organisation. You will act as a trusted partner and enabler, combining central stewardship of policy, data and commercial leverage with a relationship first approach to influence locally owned outcomes that are right for the business.

What You’ll Do

Strategic leadership and governance 

• Define and deliver the global leasing strategy (consolidation, co‑location, market entry/exit) aligned to corporate objectives.

• Own governance frameworks, approval gates and a clear decision‑rights matrix that balances central stewardship with local autonomy.

• Represent CRE & Asset Strategy in senior leadership forums and act as the central escalation point for cross‑regional leasing matters.

Lease lifecycle and operational oversight

• Oversee the full lease lifecycle: rent reviews, expiries, dilapidations, extensions, acquisitions and disposals.

• Set operational property management standards and ensure consistent landlord and sub‑tenant relationship practices.

• Resolve complex contractual and operational issues in partnership with Legal, Finance, Tax and Risk.

• Enablement, capability and relationship management.

• Design and roll out a practical leasing playbook, toolkits, training and an accreditation programme for regional teams.

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with regional CRE leads, business unit owners and key partners (Legal, Finance, Procurement, Workplace, HR).

• Act as a coach and advisor: provide negotiation support, market intelligence and commercial coaching to local teams.

Commercial leadership and supplier management

• Lead strategic, cross‑regional negotiations and preserve central bargaining power while enabling local execution.

• Manage central panels of brokers, legal advisors and suppliers; set service standards and commercial terms for adoption.

Data, reporting and financial stewardship

• Maintain a single source of truth for lease data; ensure records are audit‑ready and support accurate forecasting and executive reporting.

• Prepare strategic business cases with robust financial modelling, ROI analysis and risk assessment to inform senior decisions.

• Use central analytics to identify portfolio optimisation opportunities and inform local choices.

Team leadership

• Lead, mentor and develop a small central team of leasing specialists and external partners; delegate ownership while retaining oversight of strategic outcomes.

• Foster a collaborative, high‑performance culture that models influence, empathy and commercial rigour.

What You’ll Bring

Experience: Proven track record leading global lease portfolios and property management operations in multi‑jurisdictional, federated organisations.

Negotiation: Demonstrable success in complex, cross‑regional lease negotiations and supplier panel management.

Technical competence: Deep knowledge of lease accounting standards, contract governance and lease administration systems.

Financial acumen: Strong financial modelling and business case development skills, with experience quantifying savings and risk.

Qualifications: Relevant degree or professional qualification in real estate, property management, finance or law preferred.

Skills, behaviours and leadership qualities

Influence and relationship building: Exceptional ability to build trust, influence senior stakeholders and secure timely ratification in a non‑command environment.

Collaborative mindset: Comfortable operating in a federated model; skilled at co‑creating solutions and enabling local decision‑making.

Communication: Clear, persuasive communicator who simplifies complexity and adapts style to diverse audiences.

Commercial judgement: Pragmatic, outcome‑focused decision maker who balances cost, risk and business needs.

Change and capability builder: Experience designing practical playbooks, training and accreditation to uplift distributed teams.

Resilience and pace: Able to deliver at speed while maintaining attention to governance and data integrity.

Benefits

• Uncapped Holiday Allowance (you read that right!)

• Enhanced Pension Scheme (please ask for your location, and we will share)

• Bonus Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Income protection

• Private healthcare (with option to add dependent)

• £/₤1,000 annual self-development learning fund & Access to thousands of Udemy courses

• Invest via the Company Share save Scheme, Discount vouchers, Volunteering days.

• Improved Parental Leave and paid time off for appointments.

• Reward portal eg. electric car scheme, gym membership discounts etc.

• Wellbeing scheme

• On-site Gym, Canteen and Gaming area plus many more

Equal opportunities

At Flutter, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.

We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.

Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role