Amazon is looking to hire an experienced Transaction Manager to join the Real Estate team and play a critical role in driving Delivery Services network across Germany, Austria and other new expanding European regions for our Last Mile customer.

This role will identify, undertake due diligence and secure sites across DE, AT, NL (MEU) and New Countries (NW) to provide flexibility and optionality for the current launch plans to assist growth of Amazon Operations and future proofing the existing network. It will involve partnership with other Amazon teams both within Global Realty and outside, involving a strategic analysis of the existing network to determine the optimum real estate solutions. The role will report up through the Head of MEU & NW and will be based in the Munich corporate office.

In this role, you will ensure the timely completion of new real estate transactions including lease agreements, BTS, option agreements, conditional land purchases and investments/existing building acquisitions. This includes working with stakeholders in defining the requirements, commercial and legal negotiations, technical due diligence, in-depth financial analysis of property transactions, underwriting analysis including developer appraisals, exit scenarios, assisting in the presentation of deals to leadership and project management to completion. You will be expected to navigate through complexity and ambiguous environments to deliver strategic, cost-effective property options for occupation by Amazon operations in the current launch plan.

Key job responsibilities
- Manage the deal flow of multiple transactions simultaneously
- Use your extensive network and experience to source new opportunities from a range of external brokers, land owners, public bodies and developers.
- Management of negotiations with landlords, agents and lawyers.
- In-depth knowledge of the property development process including site assembly, securing acceptable permitting, financing, cost planning and industry investment profiling.
- Communicate expectations, requirements and status of deals to key business partners – both internal and external.
- Single threaded owner of all commercial aspects to ensure the exchange and completion of property contracts consistently and reliably to meet programme expectations.
- Closely collaborate with multiple teams incl. Amazon operations, launch & expansion, network planning, legal, finance, public policy, pre-construction and design and construction groups to deliver highly successful projects.