Senior Director, Workplace Portfolio Management – APAC

Job Description Summary:

The Senior Director, Workplace Portfolio Management – APAC serves as the single-point, end-to-end owner and operator for a designated segment of the global real estate portfolio. This role is fully accountable for both defining the strategic roadmap and leading the hands-on execution to deliver it, ensuring seamless alignment with Operating Unit (OU) business objectives.

Areas of Focus:

• End-to-End Portfolio Ownership: Act as the integrated “GM” for designated portfolio segment — accountable for the full lifecycle from OU strategy engagement through financial forecasting, business case development, project execution, delivery, and post-occupancy performance measurement, etc.

• OU Strategy & Relationship Management: Serve as the primary strategic partner to OU leadership (Presidents, CFOs, HR) and work to translate business goals into prioritized real estate initiatives and portfolio actions; including how to secure funding (GRW vs. OU) and clearly articulate financial impacts to OUs, and GRW leadership.

• Program Management Office (PMO) in-role: Operate as the PMO for designated portfolio — establish standards, governance rhythms, reporting, and manage the most complex/high-impact programs directly.

• Financial Stewardship: Own capital and operating budget decisions for portfolio initiatives; develop business cases, manage forecasts, control costs, and report ROI to OUs and GRW leadership.

• Performance & Value Realization: Define success criteria for initiatives and the portfolio (strategic outcomes and delivery metrics); track and report on outcomes and opex reduction where applicable.

• Operational Decision-Making & Escalation: Serve as the primary escalation point for high-profile and critical operational matters across the portfolio; make and drive resolution of key operational decisions in close partnership with CBRE, regional office managers, and other facilities management and workplace vendors within the region.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Portfolio strategy & roadmap: Define and maintain a multi-year portfolio strategy and roadmap that translates OU business priorities into prioritized real estate actions (right-sizing, consolidation, expansion, workplace transformation). Continuously validate strategy against OU plans, market dynamics, occupancy

• trends, and corporate objectives. Working closely with Real Estate Transactions team, Portfolio Planner, and Workplace Strategy team.

• Strategic financial leadership: Lead the development and rigorous review of business cases (capex and opex) for major investments with Director of GRW Commercial Finance.

• Set portfolio driven KPIs to manage programs more efficiently and set clear success criteria for cross-functional GRW teams to align to, including quantify ROI and payback periods to make informed decisions.

• Be able to present recommendations to OU leaders/executives and GRW senior leadership and ensure linkage between strategic decisions and financial outcomes.

• Portfolio economics & analytics: Own portfolio-level analytics and decision-support models (total cost of occupancy, cost per sq ft/FTE, utilization, scenario NPVs). Drive data-driven scenario planning (consolidation, network optimization, sale/leaseback) and surface trade-offs, risks, and upside to leadership.

• OU engagement & influence: Act as a trusted advisor to OU leaders and OU finance partners—translate real estate impacts into OU P&L and budget implications, negotiate funding and timing, and secure business alignment for portfolio actions.

• Governance & operating model: Design and run governance forums and decision cadences (steering committees, portfolio reviews) to prioritize pipeline, allocate capital, and accelerate decisions. Ensure clear decision rights, program milestones, and escalation path recommendations.

• CAPEX & OPEX stewardship: Own portfolio-level capital prioritization and opex optimization strategy. Ensure budget and business cases meet criteria, monitor spend vs. AFE/budget, and ensure proper capitalization and closeout in SAP through partnership with GRW Finance, CBRE PJMs, FinHub and Genpact.

• Risk, compliance & controls: Ensure portfolio actions comply with finance controls, SOX requirements, and lease/accounting policies (ASC 842 implications). Own audit readiness for portfolio programs and lead remediation actions for control gaps.

• Outcomes & value realization: Define success metrics for each initiative and the portfolio (cost savings, workspace productivity, employee outcomes). Track realization and lead post-implementation reviews to capture lessons learned and ensure benefits are delivered.

• Organization & capability building: Build and elevate cross-functional capability within Portfolio Planning, GRW Finance, and delivery teams. Mentor and develop other team members to improve commercial rigor and execution excellence.

• Change & stakeholder management: Lead communications and change strategies for major portfolio moves and workplace transformations to ensure OU adoption and mitigate business disruption.

What can help you to be successful in the role?

Growth Behavior:

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.

• Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

• Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

• Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

Leadership Behavior

• Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

• Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.

What We Can Do For You 

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.

• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.

Skills:

Account Closing, Budgeting, Business Analytics, Cash Flow, Communication, Corporate Finance, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance, Financial Performance Management, General Ledger (GL), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Group Problem Solving, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Leadership, Microsoft Office, Preparation of Financial Reports, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management, Strategy Development, Teamwork, Waterfall Model

Location(s):

Singapore

City/Cities:

Singapore

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

April 29, 2026

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.