At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.
Position Summary
The Vice President, Global Facilities & Real Estate provides enterprise leadership for STERIS facilities, real estate, capital project execution, maintenance reliability, and facilities governance across the global portfolio. This role establishes the Global Facilities & Real Estate Center of Excellence operating model, aligning standards, decision rights, performance management, and regional execution to support safe, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective operations. The position leads strategic planning for owned and leased facilities, major capital investments, site development, international facilities support, infrastructure reliability, and long-term portfolio optimization. Through disciplined governance, cross-functional partnership, and executive-level leadership, this role enables business growth, risk reduction, operational excellence, capital stewardship, and enterprise value creation.
This position can be remote with 35-40 % Domestic & International Travel Required.
What You’ll Do as a Vice President, Global Facilities & Real Estate
- Develops and executes the enterprise Global Facilities & Real Estate strategy and Center of Excellence operating model; defines the global facilities roadmap, governance structure, service model, accountability framework, and value creation priorities.
- Leads enterprise facilities governance, standards, policy deployment, compliance monitoring, risk management, KPI reporting, operating rhythms, and executive transparency across manufacturing, distribution, laboratory, corporate, and support facilities.
- Provides executive leadership for global site development, facility master planning, capital project delivery, design and engineering oversight, construction management, commissioning, occupancy readiness, and project portfolio governance.
- Oversees global real estate and portfolio management, including lease strategy, portfolio optimization, site selection, acquisitions, dispositions, workplace strategy, real estate governance, and partnership with Legal, Finance, and business leaders.
- Directs enterprise facilities maintenance and asset management strategy, including critical infrastructure reliability, asset lifecycle planning, preventive and predictive maintenance standards, CMMS governance, and infrastructure renewal planning.
- Provides strategic leadership for international facilities operations and regional support, ensuring global consistency while addressing regional business needs, regulatory requirements, service delivery expectations, and operational challenges.
- Supports multi-year facilities capital, operating, and portfolio investment plans; optimizes facility-related spend, contractor and vendor performance, strategic sourcing opportunities, energy performance, and long-term cost stewardship.
- Builds, mentors, and leads a high-performing global facilities and real estate organization; strengthens leadership capability, cross-functional alignment, stakeholder engagement, external partner performance, and enterprise communication.
The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed
Required
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- Bachelor’s degree required
- 10 Years of experience leading global facilities or real estate organizations; capital project execution; facility maintenance and asset management; real estate portfolio strategy; governance, compliance, and risk management; budget ownership; vendor and contract management; and executive stakeholder engagement.
- Enterprise Facilities & Real Estate Strategy: Ability to translate corporate growth priorities, operational requirements, portfolio needs, and regional business requirements into a scalable enterprise GFRE strategy and operating model.
- Capital Project Delivery & Site Development: Ability to lead major capital projects, site development, design and engineering oversight, construction management, project controls, commissioning, and occupancy readiness.
- Real Estate & Portfolio Management: Strong knowledge of owned and leased portfolio strategy, site selection, lease governance, occupancy cost management, utilization analysis, acquisitions, dispositions, and real estate risk management.
- Facilities Maintenance & Asset Reliability: Ability to establish maintenance standards, asset lifecycle plans, critical infrastructure reliability programs, CMMS governance, infrastructure renewal plans, and facility condition assessment practices.
- Governance, Compliance & Risk Management: Ability to define decision rights, policies, standards, RACI models, KPIs, dashboards, compliance monitoring, risk mitigation, project governance, and executive reporting systems.
- International Facilities Leadership: Ability to lead through regional complexity, deploy global standards internationally, address local regulatory requirements, support regional facility teams, and partner with international business leaders.
- Financial Acumen & Value Creation: Ability to manage large-scale operating and capital budgets, evaluate investment alternatives, optimize facility spend, govern vendor performance, improve cost transparency, and drive long-term capital stewardship.
- Executive Influence & Organizational Leadership: Ability to advise senior leaders, lead matrixed teams, build organizational capability, communicate complex recommendations clearly, manage external partners, and influence outcomes across global stakeholders.
Pay range for this opportunity is $194,650.00 - $251,900.00. This position is eligible for bonus participation.
Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.
STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits
Open until position is filled.
STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.
