Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Services

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. We work to provide employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. This starts with ensuring every team member enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally.

Benefits

• Award-winning culture with 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

All benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

About the Role

Unum is a leading international provider of workplace benefits and services, helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. With over 10,000 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 Unum’s physical workplace, real estate portfolio, facilities operations, workplace services, corporate security, environmental health and safety, hospitality, and related workplace technology platforms. This highly visible leadership role is 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 Unum’s 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 a 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year real estate and workplace services strategy aligned to enterprise priorities, talent needs, employee experience, and financial objectives.
• Lead portfolio strategy and optimization across owned, leased, tenant-occupied, and specialized environments, including site strategy, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, consolidations, and capital investments.
• Oversee facilities and workplace operations that deliver safe, reliable, compliant, efficient, and employee-centered environments.
• Manage workplace planning, design, construction, renovation, relocation, and capital project delivery grounded in business requirements and user experience.
• Direct corporate security, emergency preparedness, critical event monitoring, incident response, access control, and duty of care programs.
• Lead environmental health and safety programs, regulatory compliance, sustainability initiatives, energy and utilities management, and building performance reporting.
• Oversee hospitality and workplace experience services that support productivity, connection, wellbeing, and service excellence.
• Develop 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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, you’ll 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 day—and to build workplaces that are safe, resilient, efficient, welcoming, and ready for the future.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $184,100.00 - $348,000.00. Actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location, and experience.

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.