The opportunity
A new, exciting opportunity has arisen at Teva Pharmaceuticals for an experienced Facilities Manager to join us as the Associate Director Facilities Management & Real Estate for México & LATAM cluster. As the LATAM Associate Director Facilities Management, you will be responsible for the strategic oversight of all Facilities, Real Estate and Physical Security services for all sites in our LATAM region to support business operations. Your key focus will be to support governance over the management of Hard & Soft Services and Projects, drive continuous improvement across all sites and strengthen relationships with our employees and stakeholders.
In the scope of México, you will be responsible to lead and implement the procedures and policies related to fleet, facilities, real estate, physical security services, EH&S, waste management and maintenance from all the locations in México.
Facilities Management Services & Real Estate include, but are not limited to,
– Hard services, such as maintenance, installation and construction of building systems and infrastructure such as electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems and utilities.
– Soft Services, such as; physical security, cleaning, food services, waste management, pest control, uniforms, fleet, etc.
– Real Estate: you will be responsible to lead all transactions, such as properties selling/buying/sub-leasing, lease renewal, finding new alternatives, space rightsizing, preparing business cases for each transaction in according to local needs, working closely with Legal & Finance teams, etc.
In this role, you will be part of the Global Facilities Management & Real Estate department (GFM&RE), in the International Markets team, reporting to the IM Senior Director Regional Head, based in Israel.
How you’ll spend your day
As the México & LATAM Associate Director Facilities Management & Real Estate, your responsibilities include:
• Provide strategic support for the team overseeing all facilities, real estate and physical security operations
• Leads changes for assigned sites in accordance with the strategic initiatives within GFM&RE and TEVA Corp.
• Assist sites during the development of annual budgets for operational and capital expenses, to reach cost reduction targets set by the Business and Teva
• Monitor Facilities service levels in line with SOPs, SLAs, and KPIs to support business operations and reach service improvement targets
• Engage with all relevant stakeholders on a reoccurring basis including with relevant business manager to align on goals and work plans, and coordinate with other functions (i.e. Corporate Security, EHS, Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, etc.) to meet business needs
• Oversee Cluster strategic FM/RE projects, such as; opening and/or closure of sites, construction, relocating sites, technology-related projects, etc.
• Ensures compliance with Teva and GFM&RE policies, procedures, operating plans and SOPs
• Support the Sr. Dir IM and VP GFM&RE with the implementation of global strategic plans and initiatives for assigned sites
• Identify operational requirements and solutions for upcoming issues and problems (bottlenecks) on various organizational levels:
– Acting as FM interface and supporting synergy on projects with the local, regional and global support teams
– Visiting sites and audit services or service providers
– Requesting changes of the service providers contracts and renegotiating their contracts with support of the TEVA Procurement team
– Representing FM in the new facilities planning, decommissioning, consolidation and upgrade projects to make sure that the FM requirements are achieved, and business needs met
