The Cigna Group

Senior Manager – Real Estate Strategy and Planning

The Cigna Group
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $125,800 - $209,600 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in developing and maintaining workplace and real estate portfolio strategies aligned with organizational priorities, utilizing strong analytical capabilities to translate business requirements into actionable plans. Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and communicate effectively with senior leadership on complex concepts.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Workplace Strategy DevelopmentOccupancy PlanningData Analysis and Problem SolvingExecutive CommunicationStakeholder Engagement

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Develop and maintain a 5- to 10-year workplace and real estate portfolio strategy aligned with enterprise, workforce, talent, and financial priorities
  • Collaborate on global occupancy and space planning capabilities, establishing demand-planning processes, space standards, governance, and service delivery expectations
  • Evaluate portfolio, workforce, and utilization data to recommend optimal square footage, employee-to-desk ratios, collaboration capacity, adjacencies, workplace zoning, and site-level solutions
  • Translate business growth, organizational change, workforce forecasts, and attendance expectations into actionable occupancy plans and real estate requirements
  • Advise senior leaders on portfolio utilization, workplace investments, sequencing decisions, trade-offs, risks, and required actions
  • Facilitate cross-functional planning and prioritization across portfolio strategy, transactions, design, workplace experience, facilities operations, capital project delivery, analytics, governance, and change leadership
  • Establish enterprise workplace principles and standards balancing employee experience, business purpose, operational resilience, cost, and flexibility
  • Build change leadership and stakeholder-engagement roadmaps supporting workplace, occupancy, and portfolio changes and successful adoption
  • Identify and implement leading practices, tools, benchmarks, and process improvements to strengthen workplace strategy and occupancy management
  • Measure portfolio, utilization, employee experience, financial, and delivery metrics and communicate progress to senior leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in business, real estate, architecture, planning, operations management, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Demonstrated experience leading workplace strategy, occupancy planning, space planning, portfolio planning, or a closely related corporate real estate function
  • Experience translating business and workforce requirements into long-range portfolio and workplace strategies
  • Strong analytical capability and demonstrated success using data to solve complex problems, evaluate alternatives, and support executive decisions
  • Proven ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate across business, HR, Technology, Finance, and real estate stakeholders
  • Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex concepts clear, concise, and actionable
  • Ability to lead challenging conversations calmly, objectively, and with a solutions-oriented approach
  • Strong organizational, prioritization, and time-management skills, with the ability to move between strategic direction and execution detail
  • Master's degree in business, real estate, architecture, planning, organizational change, or a related discipline (preferred)
  • Experience leading enterprise-wide business integration, workplace transformation, portfolio optimization, or technology-enabled operating model initiatives (preferred)
  • Experience with workplace and portfolio technology platforms, utilization analytics, scenario modeling, and performance reporting (preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence within a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary, and matrixed organization (preferred)
  • Broad understanding of corporate real estate, workplace experience, change leadership, design, project delivery, facilities operations, finance, and the interdependencies among these functions (preferred)
  • Qualified applicants must meet applicable work authorization and employment eligibility requirements

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Annual bonus plan eligibility
  • Medical benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Well-being and behavioral health programs
  • 401(k)
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
  • Paid holidays
  • Leaves of absence
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Cable broadband or fiber optic internet service for home working, with minimum speeds of 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload

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Hard Skills
Portfolio PlanningSpace PlanningUtilization AnalyticsScenario ModelingPerformance Reporting
Soft Skills
CollaborationOrganizational SkillsTime ManagementSolutions-Oriented ApproachRelationship Building
Tools & Technologies
Workplace Technology PlatformsAnalytics Tools
Industry Keywords
Corporate Real EstateWorkplace ExperienceChange LeadershipFacilities OperationsProject Delivery