What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Real Estate Senior Advisor position at The Cigna Group?
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As a Global Workplace Senior Advisor, you will play a key role in shaping how our real estate supports our business and how our teams work, grow, and serve customers. This role is ideal for someone who blends business partnership with strong transaction leadership, analytical thinking, and strategic problem solving.
This is a fast-paced, multi-faceted environment that often operates with ambiguity, success in this role requires the ability to translate strategy into execution with clarity and discipline.
Responsibilities
- Operate as the central point of integration for complex, multi-market real estate programs, ensuring consistency, discipline, and execution across the portfolio
- Drive outcomes that align workplace strategy with business priorities while ensuring clarity, momentum, and partnership across the enterprise
Transaction Leadership
- Lead transaction development and strategy for leases, aligning deal structures with enterprise financial and operational objectives
- Drive end-to-end transaction execution, from business case through negotiation, documentation, and close
- Direct and manage third-party brokerage partners, ensuring accountability for strategy, pacing, and outcomes
- Identify critical transaction risks and opportunities, guiding negotiation approach and key decision points
Business Partnership & Planning
- Partner with Strategy, HR, and Project Management teams to translate business needs into actionable real estate plans
- Build trusted relationships with business leaders, understanding workforce needs, priorities, and future plans
- Contribute to occupancy planning, aligning space requirements with business demand and market conditions
Program Management & Execution
- Lead program-level planning and coordination across multiple initiatives, aligning timelines, dependencies, and deliverables
- Drive cross-functional alignment and manage interdependencies across projects and transactions
- Monitor program and transaction performance, including timelines, financial outcomes, and delivery milestones
- Facilitate governance through clear reporting, decision framing, and risk escalation
- Drive accountability across internal teams and external partners to ensure commitments are met
Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Validate program and project data, ensuring accuracy and transparency in reporting
- Communicate complex information clearly and concisely to support business decision-making
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, standardize execution, and enhance portfolio performance
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in real estate transaction management, space and occupancy planning, facility management, or project management
- Proven experience managing stakeholder relationships in a fast-paced, professional environment
- Experience directly supporting or advising business leaders on space or workforce strategy
- Experience managing or directing third-party brokerage partners or external advisors
- Ability to turn data into clear insights and actionable recommendations
- Demonstrated experience leading or materially contributing to complex real estate transactions, including renewals, new leases, relocations, and dispositions
- Strong ability to analyze complex information, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend practical solutions
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to diverse audiences
- High level of accountability, initiative, and comfort working independently on visible, high-impact work
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, construction, or a related field
- Experience working with space planning, system furniture concepts, and workplace design
- Familiarity with building regulations, including health and safety guidelines
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to adapt quickly, prioritize effectively, and respond to time-critical issues
This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
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.Please note that you must meet our posting guidelines to be eligible for consideration. Policy can be reviewed at this link.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.