Project Director, Corporate Real Estate

Play a leading role in shaping high performing workplace environments across the EMEA region, driving projects that directly enhance how our people collaborate, innovate, and thrive. This is an opportunity within project management, partnering closely with senior stakeholders across a diverse and globally recognised organisation.

As part of the core Real Estate Leadership team, you will project manage multiyear, complex real estate and construction programs including the delivery of an in-situ office refurbishment project. Setting long term project strategy, including phasing, budgeting, and delivery planning. You will oversee strategic project planning, governance, approvals and cost management, shaping cross functional collaboration and guiding multi disciplinary teams of designers, architects, engineers, and service providers.

Partnering closely with Communications, Change Management, Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, acting as the primary interface between business units and outsourced project delivery teams. You will develop strong project briefs that clearly define scope, options, sourcing, schedule, and budget. Through your leadership, you will ensure that projects meet quality, safety and risk standards while enabling innovation and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

What You Offer

• Provide strategic oversight of capital works, ensuring alignment with regional and organisational priorities.
• Build strong cross‑functional stakeholder relationships across corporate teams, business leaders and support functions to drive aligned project delivery.
• Act as the primary interface between business units and project teams, translating complex, multi‑disciplinary projects into clear, actionable updates.
• Lead and govern external partners and multi‑disciplinary teams, including project managers, architects, designers and engineering consultants.
• Oversee project governance, ensuring accurate cost, schedule, scope and risk management while meeting compliance and safety standards.
• Experience in sustainable design and operations, alongside deep knowledge of construction practices, customer experience and managing competing priorities, is highly valuable.
• Education in field such as Real Estate, Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management is advantageous.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you’re excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What We Offer

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
• 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers.
• Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment.
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
• Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options.
• Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including, comprehensive medical and life insurance cover.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services.
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
• Access to company funded emergency and backup dependent care services.
• Recognition and service awards.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment.

In our Corporate Operations Group, you will work at the heart of Macquarie to deliver for our people, businesses, and their customers. We’re a global, collaborative team with deep expertise in technology, data, digital, market operations, corporate real estate, business resilience, procurement and global security.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply regardless of their identity, including age, disability, neurodiversity, gender (including gender identity or expression), sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, parental status, race (including ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals as required during the recruitment process and in the course of employment. If you require additional assistance, please let us know during the application process.