Global Real Estate & Workplace Programs Lead

Navan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 113,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan seeks a Senior Manager, Real Estate and Workplace Programs to lead the global real estate and workplace portfolio with a real estate-first approach. You’ll own portfolio strategy, business cases, broker coordination, and decision processes, partnering with Finance and multiple stakeholders to drive occupancy planning and cost control.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring global portfolio discipline, strong governance, and the use of AI-enabled workflows to improve visibility and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in corporate real estate, workplace strategy, real estate portfolio management, or real estate program management.
• Experience supporting a multi-site corporate real estate or workplace portfolio; international or global portfolio experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of lease events, renewals, notice dates, transaction timelines, landlord coordination, broker processes, and key commercial obligations.
• Experience managing brokers and external real estate partners while owning internal stakeholder alignment, business case development, financial assumptions, and executive decision materials.
• Ability to connect headcount, seats, utilization, cost, timing, and business needs into clear portfolio views, options, and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a global portfolio view of spaces, lease obligations, capacity, and owners.
• Own the portfolio calendar with deadlines and business implications.
• Manage broker relationships and transaction workstreams; coordinate inputs and decisions.
• Own the internal business case for real estate decisions including options, risks, and financial impact.
• Partner with Finance to monitor occupancy costs, rent commitments, capex/opex assumptions, budgets, and forecasts.
• Coordinate occupancy, utilization, and capacity planning inputs across locations; frame space planning options.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align requirements, timing, and decision-makers.
• Create visibility across projects with milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and budgets.
• Build standards for space requests, project handoffs, and site readiness.
• Apply AI-enabled workflows to improve portfolio visibility and reporting.

Skills

Real estate portfolio management

Stakeholder alignment

Broker coordination

AI-enabled workflows

Cross-functional partnership

Financial assumptions

Space planning options

Executive decision materials

Program management

Data-driven reporting

Job description

Navan seeks a Senior Manager, Real Estate and Workplace Programs to lead the global real estate and workplace portfolio with a real estate-first approach. You’ll own portfolio strategy, business cases, broker coordination, and decision processes, partnering with Finance and multiple stakeholders to drive occupancy planning and cost control.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring global portfolio discipline, strong governance, and the use of AI-enabled workflows to improve visibility and