Real Estate Program Manager, North America

Real Estate Program Manager

The primary objective of the Real Estate Program Manager is the cost effective and consistent delivery of quality construction and capital improvement projects leveraging third party providers. This position has responsibility for the strategy and goals of the construction phase of the project, the oversight and management of various project managers and materials and labor suppliers to deliver on these key objectives as well as the customer relationship management of key stakeholders including the GCRE Regional Directors and their business unit clients.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides project-specific workplace strategy for the stage-gated real estate approval process, in support of the Regional Directors
• Strategic partner with Facilities Management and Transactions Management functions
• Oversight and management of outsourced Project Manager's (PjM) for the delivery of real estate projects
• Provides direction to the third-party Occupancy Planner
• Manages key Chubb Real Estate vendor relationships including, architects, engineers, furniture suppliers, and others, as well as, maintaining aggressive pricing and discounting and driving consistent quality and on-time delivery
• Ensures compliance with Chubb Workplace guiding principles and architectural standards and adherence to exception approval processes for non-standard and out-of-scope work
• Ensures project managers deliver all projects on time and under budget with careful management of contingency
• Contributes to Workplace's ongoing development of architectural standards and workplace strategy
• Responsible for a consistent approach to project delivery for all Real Estate projects within their remit and aligned with global processes and procedures
• Participate in the annual planning and budgeting for capital projects
• Review and approve proposals and invoices ensuring scope and cost are as required or budgeted
• Travel to projects as required to ensure quality and cost control
• Responsible for project close out, material and as-built archiving
• Performs after action reviews and quality assessments on third party project managers and projects