Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Services

When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this we provide:

• Award-winning culture

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health Vision Dental Short & Long-Term Disability

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

• Mental health support

• Career advancement opportunities

• Student loan repayment options

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments

And thats just the beginning

With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!

Unum is a leading international provider of workplace benefits and services helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. With more than 10000 employees across the U.S. and abroad we are driven by innovation integrity customer focus and a commitment to creating a workplace where people can grow contribute and do meaningful work.

We are seeking a strategic enterprise-minded Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace Services to lead the evolution of Unums physical workplace real estate portfolio facilities operations workplace services corporate security environmental health and safety hospitality and related workplace technology platforms. This is a highly visible leadership role for a modern real estate and workplace executive who can connect business strategy employee experience operational resiliency financial performance and long-term portfolio value.

This leader will shape how Unums workplaces enable business performance collaboration productivity safety and belonging. The role oversees a diverse portfolio that includes offices campuses data centers leased spaces tenant-occupied spaces and specialized environments with primary focus on the U.S. portfolio and selected support for the global portfolio. The VP will partner closely with senior leaders across People Finance Legal Technology Operations Risk Sustainability and business leadership to build workplace and real estate solutions that are practical data-informed financially disciplined and future-ready.

What Youll Lead

• A multi-year real estate and workplace services strategy aligned to enterprise priorities talent needs employee experience and financial objectives.

• Portfolio strategy and optimization across owned leased tenant-occupied and specialized environments including site strategy leasing acquisitions dispositions consolidations and capital investments.

• Facilities and workplace operations that deliver safe reliable compliant efficient and employee-centered environments.

• Workplace planning design construction renovation relocation and capital project delivery grounded in business requirements and user experience.

• Corporate security emergency preparedness critical event monitoring incident response access control and duty of care programs.

• Environmental health and safety programs regulatory compliance sustainability initiatives energy and utilities management and building performance reporting.

• Hospitality and workplace experience services that support productivity connection wellbeing and service excellence.

• Technology data analytics and reporting capabilities that improve occupancy insights asset management service delivery cost transparency resiliency and continuous improvement.

What Success Looks Like

• A forward-looking workplace and real estate strategy that supports business priorities and enhances the employee experience.

• Clear governance service standards metrics and reporting across the portfolio.

• Improved portfolio utilization cost discipline operational reliability and capital planning.

• Strong vendor partnerships and service delivery models that are scalable accountable and cost-effective.

• A high-performing customer-centric team known for collaboration operational excellence and trusted partnership with senior leaders.

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will be a seasoned real estate and workplace services executive with the judgment influence and operating discipline to lead at enterprise scale. They will bring strong business and financial acumen a customer-focused mindset and experience translating complex operational financial risk and workplace matters into clear recommendations for senior leaders.

• Bachelors degree in engineering architecture real estate facilities management business or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certification preferred.

• 12 years of progressive leadership experience across corporate real estate facilities workplace services construction portfolio management security or related operational functions.

• Experience leading complex teams and partner ecosystems including service providers brokers landlords contractors consultants security partners and regulatory stakeholders.

• Demonstrated financial leadership including capital and operating budgets business cases P&L accountability vendor economics and portfolio cost optimization.

• Strong executive presence communication influence and change leadership skills.

• Comfort using data analytics workplace technology occupancy insights and service metrics to drive better decisions and measurable outcomes.

Why Join Unum

At Unum youll join a collaborative and inclusive workplace with a strong sense of purpose: helping the working world thrive. We invest in our people through development opportunities competitive rewards wellbeing programs flexible benefits paid time away volunteer opportunities and a culture that values innovation accountability integrity and care for one another.

This is an opportunity to lead a function that directly shapes how employees experience work every dayand to build workplaces that are safe resilient efficient welcoming and ready for the future.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME and Baton Rouge LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.

$184100.00-$348000.00

Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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