Senior Real Estate & Capital Programs Leader

UL Solutions; Evanston (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k match

Job summary

UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement is seeking a Senior Real Estate Planning & Development Program Manager to lead a complex capital program across cross-functional teams in Columbia, MD or Washington, DC.

You will drive program planning, controls, governance, and OPR alignment, developing schedules, cost models, risk registers, and dashboards while ensuring compliance with internal policies and contracting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and development activities for complex real estate and capital projects, translating organizational objectives into program requirements, design criteria, and implementation strategies.
• Manage program staff, consultants, designers, advisors, and delivery partners to ensure achievement of program objectives, contractual obligations, performance expectations, and quality standards.
• Lead program-level planning, controls, and governance across the full capital program lifecycle, ensuring alignment with objectives and requirements.
• Develop and maintain program controls, including integrated master schedules, cost models, risk registers, reporting dashboards, and program status reporting.
• Administer governance processes, including charters, escalation protocols, phase-gate reviews, decision logs, and risk escalation frameworks to support accountability and timely decision-making.
• Establish and maintain compliance processes related to internal policies, contract requirements, funding obligations, approvals, audit readiness, and documentation standards.
• Support contract development, administration, compliance monitoring, and performance management for consultants and service providers.
• Facilitate coordination among internal stakeholders and external partners, driving alignment, documenting decisions, resolving issues, and maintaining program consistency.
• Oversee implementation and optimization of Project Management Information Systems (PMIS), document control workflows, standardized templates, processes, and tools to support scalable program delivery.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams, monitoring scope, schedule, cost, risk, and Owner's Project Requirements (OPR) compliance while ensuring successful program delivery and alignment with priorities.
• Contribute to and/or lead other real estate planning and development-specific and cross-functional initiatives as needed.

Job description

UL Research Institutes and UL Standards & Engagement is seeking a Senior Real Estate Planning & Development Program Manager to lead a complex capital program across cross-functional teams in Columbia, MD or Washington, DC.

You will drive program planning, controls, governance, and OPR alignment, developing schedules, cost models, risk registers, and dashboards while ensuring compliance with internal policies and contracting requirements.