Program Manager, Corporate Real Estate

PowerToFly; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 119,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Dallas seeks a Program Manager to act as the operational leader and chief integrator for major workplace and real estate transformation programs. You will ensure governance, delivery, and executive alignment across complex initiatives.

You’ll translate strategic direction into integrated program plans, maintain governance routines, and manage risk, dependencies, and decisions. The role requires coordinating with stakeholders, consultants, and vendors in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, multi-workstream programs.
• Strong governance, reporting, risk management and vendor coordination.
• Ability to translate strategy into structured plans and execution priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational governance for workplace and real estate transformation programs.
• Partner with Program Director to develop integrated program plans and governance.
• Maintain executive-ready status updates, milestone tracking and issue resolution.
• Drive accountability across stakeholders, teams, and vendors with clear ownership.

Skills

Program governance

Executive reporting

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Job description

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Program Manager to serve as the operational leader and chief integrator for major workplace and real estate transformation programs, ensuring complex initiatives are governed effectively, delivered efficiently, and aligned with executive priorities.

In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:

• Serve as the operational leader and chief integrator for major workplace and real estate transformation programs, coordinating multiple workstreams to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered effectively.
• Act as the Program Director's primary partner, translating strategic direction into integrated program plans, governance routines, decision forums, and execution priorities.
• Maintain disciplined program governance, including status reporting, milestone tracking, issue escalation, decision logs, dependency management, and executive-ready performance updates.
• Drive accountability across business stakeholders, project teams, consultants, and vendors by clarifying ownership, tracking commitments, and ensuring timely follow-through on critical actions.
• Identify, manage, and elevate program risks, issues, and interdependencies, ensuring leadership has timely visibility into critical decisions, trade-offs, and mitigation plans.
• Connect strategy, execution, and stakeholder engagement across complex, multi-disciplinary programs to support efficient delivery, executive oversight, and measurable business outcomes.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Extensive experience in program management, project delivery, corporate real estate, workplace transformation, operations, consulting, or a related field, with a track record of leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives.
• Strong understanding of program governance, executive reporting, risk management, issue resolution, dependency tracking, stakeholder engagement, and vendor or consultant coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into structured plans, operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and clear execution priorities across cross-functional teams.
• Executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to prepare concise leadership materials, elevate critical decisions, influence stakeholders, and drive alignment across diverse audiences.
• Highly organized and proactive, with strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, follow-through, and ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Real Estate, Project Management, Operations, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline preferred; program or project management certification a plus.

The position's work location will be 1445 Ross Ave, Dallas, TX 75202 at a future date. The role may begin remotely until the office location becomes available. In-Person interviews will be required for the role.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $118,800 and $161,700 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.