Senior Manager - Real Estate Strategy and Planning (Corporate Real Estate)

Location: Hybrid, Chicago, IL, United States; other listed locations include Houston, New York, Bloomfield, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Morris Plains.

Salary: 125,800–209,600 USD annually, depending on experience and geographic location; eligible for an annual bonus plan.

Company

hirify.global provides healthcare and health services through Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain 5- to 10-year workplace and real estate portfolio strategies aligned with enterprise, workforce, talent, and financial priorities.
• Build global occupancy and space-planning capabilities, including demand planning, space standards, governance, and service delivery expectations.
• Analyze portfolio, workforce, and utilization data to recommend square footage, employee-to-desk ratios, collaboration capacity, adjacencies, zoning, and site-level solutions.
• Translate business growth, organizational change, workforce forecasts, and attendance expectations into occupancy plans and real estate requirements.
• Advise senior leaders on utilization, workplace investments, sequencing, trade-offs, risks, and portfolio decisions.
• Coordinate cross-functional planning across portfolio strategy, transactions, design, workplace experience, facilities, capital projects, analytics, governance, and change leadership.

Requirements

• 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 experience using data to solve complex problems, evaluate alternatives, and support executive decisions.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate across business, HR, Technology, Finance, and real estate stakeholders.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including 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.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in business, real estate, architecture, planning, organizational change, or a related discipline.
• Experience with enterprise-wide business integration, workplace transformation, portfolio optimization, or technology-enabled operating model initiatives.
• Experience with workplace and portfolio technology platforms, utilization analytics, scenario modeling, and performance reporting.
• Ability to lead and influence within a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and matrixed organization.
• Results-oriented leadership style with the ability to engage in critical details while motivating teams and maintaining an enterprise perspective.
• Broad understanding of corporate real estate, workplace experience, change leadership, design, project delivery, facilities operations, finance, and related interdependencies.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and listening skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement; occasional or permanent home working requires cable broadband or fiber internet with at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds.
• Medical, vision, dental, well-being, and behavioral health benefits are available from the first day of employment.
• 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
• At least 18 days of paid time off per year.