Team Lead Location Manager

Do you want to help create the future of healthcare? Our name, Siemens Healthineers, was selected to honour our people who dedicate their energy and passion to this cause. It reflects their pioneering spirit combined with our long history of engineering in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.

We offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. Sounds interesting?  Then come and join our global team as Team Lead Location Manager to take responsibility for our corporate real estate.

About the Role

As Team Lead Location Manager, you will take clear ownership and strategic responsibility for a diverse, multi site corporate real estate portfolio, including manufacturing, production, warehousing, and corporate office environments. Through a small team of direct reports, you will provide direction, support, and accountability while driving continuous improvement across estate and contract management activities.

This role is essential to ensuring our workplaces are safe, compliant, efficient, and well maintained, enabling both operational excellence and a positive employee experience. You will work closely with technical, commercial, and operational stakeholders, balancing decisive action with thoughtful collaboration to deliver sustainable outcomes.

The role includes regular travel within the United Kingdom and across the EMEA region (approximately 20–30%), with a hybrid working model that includes 1–2 days per week working from home and the remaining time spent in our Camberley office and at our manufacturing sites.

What You Will Do?

In this role, you will:

• Act as a central point of leadership and coordination for technical project managers, asset managers, and external stakeholders, including landlords, suppliers, and local authorities.
• Lead, develop, and support a capable and engaged team, setting clear expectations while fostering trust, learning, and shared responsibility.
• Partner with asset and technical management teams to lead and support contract negotiations, contributing to the development of commercial terms such as pricing, service levels, and termination clauses.
• Oversee the effective and compliant delivery of lease and rental agreements, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, and alignment with business needs.
• Drive space optimisation and utilisation initiatives, balancing operational performance, employee needs, market conditions, and cost effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to improve estate efficiency, running costs, and internal rental or charging structures, taking a structured and pragmatic approach.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal standards, including maintenance programmes and corporate governance requirements.
• Lead and support the implementation of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) actions, promoting a culture of responsibility, awareness, and continuous risk reduction.
• Develop robust financial forecasts, manage budgets, and maintain strong oversight of cost drivers related to facilities, infrastructure, and technical equipment.

What You'll Bring

Qualifications & Experience

You will bring a balanced combination of expertise, judgement, and leadership experience, including:

• A degree in real estate management, facilities management, engineering, construction, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience supported by relevant qualifications.
• Demonstrable experience managing or leading a corporate real estate or facilities function within a complex, multi site environment.
• A strong background in project management, estate maintenance, and asset lifecycle management.
• Proven experience leading people in technical or operational settings, with the ability to motivate, develop, and hold teams accountable.
• A solid working knowledge of real estate, lease, and contract law, applied with commercial awareness and sound judgement.

Technical Expertise & Skills

To succeed in this role, you will be confident working with:

• Commercial leases, service contracts, and supplier management frameworks.
• Facilities and building systems, including mechanical, electrical, and infrastructure services common to manufacturing and office environments.
• Financial planning and control, including budgeting, forecasting, cost modelling, and variance analysis.
• Data and performance insight, using information to inform decisions and improve estate outcomes.
• Compliance and governance requirements, including statutory maintenance, health & safety legislation, and internal audit standards.

Personal Attributes

• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills in English.
• A leadership style that combines decisiveness with approachability, and accountability with support.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and a balanced, customer focused mindset.
• Comfortable working across teams, cultures, and priorities within a matrixed organisation.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the UK, Ireland, and EMEA as part of the role.