Senior Real Estate Planning & Development Program Manager

Job Description

At UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement, we know why we come to work.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Real Estate Planning & Development Program Manager atUL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement, based in our Columbia, MD or our Washington, DC, office. The Senior Real Estate Planning & Development Program Manager leads program planning, controls, and governance for UL Research Institutes' and UL Standards & Engagement's complex capital program. This role develops and maintains the program controls framework, coordinates cross-functional teams, and ensures effective governance, decision-making, and stakeholder alignment across internal functions and external partners.

• Lead planning and development activities for complex real estate and capital projects, translating organizational objectives into program requirements, design criteria, and implementation strategies.
• Manage program staff, consultants, designers, advisors, and delivery partners to ensure achievement of program objectives, contractual obligations, performance expectations, and quality standards.
• Lead program-level planning, controls, and governance across the full capital program lifecycle, ensuring alignment with objectives and requirements.
• Develop and maintain program controls, including integrated master schedules, cost models, risk registers, reporting dashboards, and program status reporting.
• Administer governance processes, including charters, escalation protocols, phase-gate reviews, decision logs, and risk escalation frameworks to support accountability and timely decision-making.
• Establish and maintain compliance processes related to internal policies, contract requirements, funding obligations, approvals, audit readiness, and documentation standards.
• Support contract development, administration, compliance monitoring, and performance management for consultants and service providers.
• Facilitate coordination among internal stakeholders and external partners, driving alignment, documenting decisions, resolving issues, and maintaining program consistency.
• Oversee implementation and optimization of Project Management Information Systems (PMIS), document control workflows, standardized templates, processes, and tools to support scalable program delivery.
• Manage multiple concurrent work streams, monitoring scope, schedule, cost, risk, and Owner's Project Requirements (OPR) compliance while ensuring successful program delivery and alignment with priorities.
• Contribute to and/or lead other real estate planning and development-specific andcrossfunctionalinitiatives as needed.

• People
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  Our people make us special. You'll work with a diverse team of experts respected for their independence and transparency and build a network, because our approach is collaborative. We collaborate across disciplines, organizations, and geographies to build the global scientific response that today's global challenges require.
• Interesting work
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  Every day is different for us here. We see what's on the horizon and use our expertise to build the foundations of a safer future. You'll have the opportunity to push the boundaries of human understanding as part of a team working to advance the public good.
• Grow and achieve
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  We learn, work, and grow together through targeted development, reward, and recognition programs.
• Values
  . Four core values guide our work: collaboration, respect, integrity, and beneficence. By living our values, we inspire the trust essential to fulfilling our mission and foster the partnerships that enable us to pursue a beneficent future in which we all can thrive.
• Total…