Real Estate Program Manager

The Real Estate Program Manager will lead program-level coordination of Nokia’s lab consolidation and relocation initiatives. The role will bring together Business, R&D IT, Real Estate, Digital Office, Engineering, and local delivery teams to establish clear ownership, integrated plans, and timely decisions across a complex, multi-site portfolio. The position requires strong program governance, communication, risk management, and executive escalation capabilities. It is focused on coordination and delivery leadership, while technical design and infrastructure decisions remain with the appropriate subject-matter specialists.

• Experience managing complex programs or projects in a corporate real estate, construction, facilities, technology, engineering, or laboratory environment.
• Proven background coordinating multi-site programs with interdependent schedules, workstreams, stakeholders, risks, and executive decision points.
• Strong knowledge of program and project governance, integrated planning, schedule management, risk management, change management, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to establish clear ownership, drive action follow-up, challenge incomplete inputs, and escalate issues constructively.
• Experience working across business, real estate, IT, engineering, infrastructure, and local delivery organizations.
• Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder-management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to maintain a strategic program-level view while tracking detailed dependencies and delivery commitments.
• Ability to communicate and present credibly to senior business executives and governance forums.
• Working familiarity with corporate real estate, lease events, site exits, reinstatement obligations, relocations, and technically demanding workplace or lab transitions.
• Familiarity with project and program management tools used for integrated schedules, risk registers, action tracking, and status reporting.

It would be nice if you also had:
• Experience coordinating laboratory consolidation, relocation, optimization, or cloudification programs.
• Experience managing transitions involving specialized lab infrastructure, critical IT dependencies, engineering systems, and business-continuity requirements.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent project or program management certification.
• Real estate or facilities management credentials, such as CoreNet MCR or IFMA CFM, or relevant engineering, construction, or technology qualifications.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization with regional and local delivery teams.