Director, Real Estate Services - Remote

Director, Real Estate Services

United Health Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We have the know-how to help make healthier lives a reality for millions. As Director, Real Estate Services, you'll lead a portfolio of complex project and program initiatives across large business units, multiple markets, and sites. You'll provide strategic direction, governance, and delivery standards while partnering with internal teams, external vendors, consultants, design partners, and construction partners to ensure projects are completed on time, in scope, within budget, and aligned to corporate priorities.

This role provides leadership to multiple layers of management and senior-level professional staff and plays a key role in driving execution, accountability, risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Develop and execute project and portfolio strategies across large business units, multiple markets, sites, functions, and/or disciplines
• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability through multiple layers of management and senior-level professional staff
• Establish governance, consistent delivery standards, reporting, controls, and project management methodologies to support successful execution
• Lead internal and external project teams, including vendor, design, construction, consultant, and service provider partners
• Define and manage project scope, objectives, requirements, dependencies, success criteria, approvals, and change-management processes
• Own and guide budgets, forecasts, estimates, change orders, cost models, procurement needs, invoices, actuals, variances, and financial governance
• Manage project timelines, resource plans, schedules, milestones, dashboards, reporting, risks, issues, and escalation paths
• Anticipate project risks and issues, lead mitigation planning, maintain risk/issue logs, and develop contingency and recovery plans when needed
• Ensure project deliverables meet established quality standards, regulatory requirements, testing expectations, documentation standards, and benefit-tracking objectives
• Build and maintain solid relationships with business partners, project stakeholders, leadership, internal customers, functional SMEs, consultants, and vendors
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready project updates, status reports, metrics, presentations, issues, risks, opportunities, and outcome summaries
• Drive process improvement, lessons learned, repeatable practices, documentation standards, and change leadership across projects and programs

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• Project management certification achieved or equivalent demonstrated project/program management capability
• Experience leading complex projects, programs, or portfolios across large business units, multiple markets, sites, functions, or disciplines
• Experience managing employees, leaders, senior-level professional staff, and/or matrixed internal and external teams
• Experience defining and managing project scope, objectives, requirements, dependencies, deliverables, approvals, and change-management processes
• Experience managing project timelines, resource plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, financial controls, estimates, invoices, and cost variances
• Experience identifying, assessing, communicating, and mitigating project risks and issues across the project lifecycle
• Experience developing project communications, executive summaries, dashboards, metrics, status reports, and stakeholder-facing presentations
• Experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams, business partners, leadership, vendors, consultants, and service providers

• Experience in real estate services, facilities, design, construction, workplace strategy, or related project delivery environments
• Experience overseeing project management, design, construction, consultant, vendor, and service provider performance against KPIs
• Experience with project governance processes, capital planning, procurement, cost-benefit analysis, and business case development
• Experience applying project management tools, dashboards, metrics, project repositories, and documentation standards
• Experience supporting process improvement, change leadership,…