Director, Real Estate Category Management

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We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.
Iron Mountain is seeking a highly strategic Director of the Real Estate Category to join our Global Procurement team. In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for defining and executing a global real estate procurement category strategy to drive significant cost optimization, operational efficiency, and enhanced supplier performance for our real estate footprint.
The Global Procurement group is pivoting from region-only support to a category-focused structure, leveraging Iron Mountain’s full scale against its global supply base.
Lead global Real Estate & Facilities procurement strategy, owning end‑to‑end category development for leases, facilities services, construction, and infrastructure across a global portfolio.
Drive measurable cost optimization and value creation across OPEX and CAPEX, including lease negotiations, site rationalization, portfolio strategy, construction sourcing, and facilities services while balancing service quality and risk.
Serve as the primary procurement interface to a highly mature managed service provider, establishing governance, RACI models, SLAs, KPIs, and performance management frameworks.
Partner closely with Real Estate, Facilities, Legal, Finance, and executive leadership to align sourcing strategies with business, operational, and location strategies, influencing decisions on acquisitions, exits, and long‑term capital commitments.
Lead complex sourcing initiatives including RFPs, competitive bidding, benchmarking, market analysis, and supplier risk management for leases, construction projects, and facilities services.
Build and lead a high‑performing global team while fostering a data‑driven, performance‑oriented procurement culture and contributing to broader Procurement transformation initiatives.
Deep expertise in Real Estate and Facilities procurement within large, multinational or Fortune 500 environments, with hands‑on experience across leases, portfolio transactions, facilities services, and construction/infrastructure sourcing.
Strong commercial and financial acumen, including lease structures (gross/net), long‑term financial modeling, CAPEX/OPEX controls, tax implications, early exit strategies, and construction change‑order management.
Proven experience working with managed service providers (e.g., CBRE, JLL or similar), including negotiating contracts, managing SLAs/KPIs, auditing invoices, and driving supplier accountability.
Demonstrated success leading global category strategies that materially impact the total cost envelope of a corporate real estate footprint, including site rationalization and portfolio optimization.
Executive presence with strong influencing and negotiation skills, comfortable operating in opaque environments, managing critical conversations, and presenting complex, data‑backed recommendations to senior leadership.
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or postgraduate degree preferred. English fluency required.
Paid time off/holidays to support your work‑life balance.
Remote work option to support work‑life balance.
Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
If you are a highly visible, strategic leader ready to take Iron Mountain’s Global Procurement function to a “best of breed” level of performance, apply today to lead this critical, transformative role.
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Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. If you have a physical or mental disability that requires special accommodations, please let us know by sending an email to See the Supplement to learn more about Equal Employment Opportunity.
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