This role will have oversight of our Global Real Estate portfolio, site strategy and vendor relationships. Total global portfolio consists of over 220 sites exceeding 10M square feet including offices, clinics, pharmacies, and data centers. Leads the corporate strategy around workplace planning and strategy. Manages teams inclusive of facilities management, project management, lease transactions, audit, food services, data analytics, sustainability, financial management and international portfolio management. Responsible for managing relationships at the senior leadership level across the organization and fostering partnerships in a highly matrixed organization. Deep partnership with Technology and Human Resource functions to keep pace with our changing employee experience needs. Focuses on continuous improvement and strategic roadmaps for future planning of all global Cigna Group sites.

Three pillars make up the critical foundation for this position:

• Drives strong partnerships across the organization
• Sets the Global Real Estate vision and strategy
• Aligns talent and team structure for effective execution

The candidate must demonstrate a strategic mindset and cultivate close partnerships with senior leaders and business stakeholders. He/she/they will explore opportunities to continuously develop our talent and improve our processes to deliver strong results. Leading through influence in a fast paced and continuously changing environment are critical.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Builds holistic understanding of Global Real Estate strategies that require support from key ELT/SLT leaders, internal matrix partners, and external suppliers
• Works closely with the HR and Tech leadership to understand and deliver on prioritized activities and goals to ensure planning, execution, adoption, and reporting strategies for related areas of responsibility
• Partners and manages relationships with line of business leaders to understand their business strategies and objectives in order to align and provide insights on impacts
• Makes critical decisions in areas where the team needs direction (i.e. real estate negotiations, lease terms, project delivery, difficult customers, conflicts with policy and procedures, overall conflict management, vendor relationship management, M&A activities, etc.)
• Manages and inspires a diverse group of individuals to support our customers by meeting and/or exceeding their business requirements in areas of global real estate and food services
• Owns key enterprise deliverables for initiatives/projects including strategic roadmaps, objectives and opportunity analysis, where applicable
• Establishes and drives the key partnerships and vendor relationships to deliver on corporate strategy
• Inspires, develops and effectively manages individuals and teams to support career development and deliver on results

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree required, post graduate degree or professional certifications (preferred)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Global Real Estate in a corporate environment. Specifically, experience with significant construction commitments leading facilities, physical construction and space strategies
• Senior leadership level oral, written presentation and communication skills
• Strong executive presence with a track record of effectively engaging with a broad range of high level stakeholders
• Demonstrated P&L management
• Demonstrated influence within complex, highly matrixed, innovative and evolving cultures
• Leadership experience with proven ability to attract exceptional talent and develop effective teams
• Ability to travel 30-40%, including 2-3 international trips annually
• Key competencies and skills for this position are:
  • Demonstrated ability to drive results with sense of urgency in an often ambiguous and rapidly changing environment
  • Courage and willingness to constructively challenge the status quo
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills
  • Enterprise mindset
  • Team player with proven ability to foster and manage cross functional working relationships
  • Change management champion
  • Interpersonal and professional savvy
  • Project and program management
  • Strong analytics and root cause analysis
  • Exceptional listening skills
  • Strong communication skills; concise, able to effectively articulate with brevity
  • Strategic, visionary, innovative mindset

Competency skills most important for success in this role: Business Acumen, Managing Ambiguity, Active Listening, Problem Solving, Interpersonal & Technology Savvy, Courage and Perspective

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.