Office Manager

CEDAR; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedar Investment Group in Arlington, VA seeks an experienced Office Manager to oversee day-to-day operations of the Arlington office and create a professional, welcoming workplace.

You will coordinate vendors, facilities, meetings, and onboarding with HR and IT, while managing budgets and supplier relationships to support teams. This hands-on role requires ownership and strong organizational skills in a growing real estate and data center development environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in office management, workplace operations, business administration, facilities coordination, executive administration, or a related role.
• Experience independently managing office operations, vendors, purchasing, and multiple competing priorities.
• Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to anticipate needs, exercise sound judgment, and take ownership of issues through resolution.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively with employees, executives, vendors, and external partners.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operations of Cedar’s Arlington office, ensuring the workplace is organized, professional, functional, and appropriately supported.
• Manage relationships with building management, facilities providers, and office vendors, including coordinating services, maintenance, repairs, and workplace needs.
• Oversee office purchasing, supplies, services, and related expenses within established budgets and approval guidelines.
• Create a welcoming and professional experience for employees, candidates, business partners, and visitors.
• Coordinate conference rooms, meetings, catering, employee events, leadership visits, and other office activities.
• Partner with HR and IT to support new-hire onboarding, workspace readiness, and employee workplace needs.
• Manage office and workplace projects, including vendor coordination, facilities improvements, office changes, and other operational initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve office operations and employee experience and recommend practical solutions.

Skills

Office management

Vendor management

Organization

Communication

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Hospitality, Operations

Job description

Job Description Summary

Cedar Investment Group is seeking an experienced Office Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of our Arlington office and help create an organized, professional, and welcoming workplace.

This is a highly visible role that works across the organization and serves as the primary point of coordination for office operations, facilities, vendors, workplace services, meetings, events, and employee experience. We’re looking for someone who takes ownership, anticipates needs, solves problems, and enjoys creating an environment where people can do their best work.

Job Description

WhatYou’llDo

• Own the day-to-day operations of Cedar’s Arlington office, ensuring the workplace is organized, professional, functional, and appropriately supported.

• Manage relationships with building management, facilities providers, and office vendors, including coordinating services, maintenance, repairs, and workplaceneeds.

• Oversee office purchasing, supplies, services, and related expenses within established budgets and approval guidelines.

• Create a welcoming and professional experience for employees, candidates, business partners, and visitors.

• Coordinate conference rooms, meetings, catering, employee events, leadership visits, and other office activities.

• Partner with HR and IT to support new-hire onboarding, workspace readiness, and employee workplace needs.

• Manage office and workplace projects, including vendor coordination, facilities improvements, office changes, and other operational initiatives.

• Identify opportunities to improve office operations and employee experience and recommend practical solutions.

WhatWe’reLooking For

• 3+ years of experience in office management, workplace operations, business administration, facilities coordination, executive administration, or a related role.

• Experience independently managing office operations, vendors,purchasing, and multiple competing priorities.

• Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability toanticipateneeds, exercise sound judgment, and take ownership of issues through resolution.

• Strong communicationand relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively with employees, executives, vendors, and external partners.

• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and attention to detail.

• Proficiencywith Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

What Would Be Great to Have

Abachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Hospitality, Operations, or a related field is preferred. Experience supporting a growing organization, managing workplace projects or office budgets, or working within real estate, development, construction, finance, investment, or professional services would also be valuable.

Why Cedar

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership ofthe workplaceexperience at a growing company.You’ll work across teams, interact with leadership, andhave the ability toshape how our Arlington office operates as Cedar continues to grow.

About Cedar Investment Group

Cedar Investment Group (CIG) is a real estate development company focused on developing next-generation data centers and digital infrastructure. Our team is committed to delivering complex projects with speed, discipline, and operational excellence while building trusted relationships with our partners, investors, customers, and communities.

How we work is grounded in the Cedar Core: Engage. Elevate. Execute.DeliverValue. We build strong relationships, challenge ourselves to raise the standard, take ownership of execution, and stay focused on creating meaningfulvalue.

Cedar Investment Group is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates withdifferent backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and strongly encourage veterans and former military personnel to apply.