The posting
Job Description
Global Real Estate is a dynamic function at GM, responsible for a diverse portfolio exceeding 300 million square feet across manufacturing, logistics, office, and retail asset classes. As the North America Real Estate team evolves and expands, we are seeking to add an additional Project Manager to grow our capabilities and capacity.
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing leasing, acquisition, and disposition of real property assets, ensuring alignment with GM’s strategic objectives and delivering exceptional value to stakeholders. Reporting to the Group Manager, this role manages projects from business requirements, site strategy, and feasibility through due diligence, approvals, negotiation, execution, occupancy, and closeout.
What You’ll Do
- Conduct site searches, develop transaction strategies, and manage timelines for real estate projects.
- Lead negotiations of business and commercial terms with owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, brokers, and other parties, in partnership with GM Legal on legal language, risk allocation, and final documentation.
- Engage stakeholders involved in transactions, including business units, labor relations, legal, environmental, consultants, and brokers.
- Ensure uniform delivery of real estate services consistent with GM policies and procedures.
- Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready projects, transaction, approval, lease, and closeout records in GM systems.
- Provide support for business unit budgeting and financial planning.
- Deliver presentations to leadership at divisional and corporate levels.
- Collaborate with Public Policy and interface with local authorities on land use, permitting, entitlements, and property matters.
- Champion the Infrastructure & Corporate Citizenship brand, increasing awareness and engagement among business partners, service providers, and contractors.
- Travel as required to support project execution.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 6 years of real estate experience.
- Capability to lead projects involving internal stakeholders and external resources and be skilled in negotiations, financial analysis and a broad range of real estate matters including legal and environmental.
- Strong business acumen and, solid interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated, organized, creative, and success oriented.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), chat and virtual meeting tools (e.g. Teams, Slack), and experience using AI.
- B.A./B.S. in Business, Finance, Real Estate or a related field of study.
Preferred Qualifications
- Manufacturing, logistics, warehouse or industrial-facility experience.
- Diverse experience in corporate real estate, brokerage or tenant representation, economic development, and real estate investment/ development.
- MBA and/or JD.
- Active Real Estate License or Broker’s License.


GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position requires the ability to legally operate a motor vehicle on a regular basis. A company vehicle will only be provided for this role by passing the Motor Vehicle Report review.


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