Senior Project Manager

Description

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) – Construction Project Management will work with Cresa leadership and business partners in support of the organization's strategic goals. The Senior Project Manager may supervise one or more project managers, assistant project managers, and or project coordinators. Additionally, they will work closely with and provide detailed progress reports to the business unit director. This role is responsible for the coordination of all project efforts, administrative and technical, to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective execution of projects. They are responsible for estimating fees, scoping work, preparing proposals, and oversight of the contract process. The Senior Project Manager will also initiate strategic plans, managing the design, development, and implementation of commercial real estate projects on behalf of the client, using established processes, experience, and expertise.

• Facilitate project meetings and ensure that all meetings are accurately documented, and meeting minutes are distributed.
• Integrate with program initiatives and objectives.
• Maintain schedule of upcoming projects and activities needed to implement plan for identified clients using Cresa/Client platforms and technologies.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to various technical, professional, and/or administrative personnel engaged in specified project activities.
• Provide measurable and timely response to client and team inquiries and concerns.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing between projects and associate teams.
• Quality control of project outcomes.
• Work directly with leadership on regional strategy, growth projections, and risk assessment.
• Manage relationships with external partners and vendors with a clear understanding of processes and deliverables, and review invoice and change orders.
• Fully support team in resolving project issues and/or escalations.
• Act as liaison between program and project teams to ensure best practices are applied.
• Manages and reports on all project metrics for projects; prepare performance data, customer data, and other insights. Identify needed actions and capture lessons learned and plans to improve or leverage strengths.
• Supervise, develop and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments to provide development for career growth.
• Ensure that onsite field audits are conducted before, during and after completion of project.
• Execute new initiatives, document best practices, drive efficiencies and streamline internal processes.
• Lead responses to patterns, turn data into information, information into action, and action into value.
• Report out on projects to Director on agreed basis.
• Build productive positive relationships across the organization at all levels to drive influence.
• Communicate directly with client to define project goals, budget, schedule, scope, and provide project status and variance reports, successfully negotiate solutions to problems focused on delivering value to the client.
• Work with internal Cresa teams as an internal customer facing point of contact.
• Assist the company in growing accounts horizontally and vertically by outstanding project delivery, client service, process improvements, and support.
• Manage a team of 2+ direct reports (if applicable).
• Identify and develop existing and new client opportunities, client engagements, proposal writing, interviews, and follow-up.
• Manage and approve project scope, timeline, and budget for team.
• Maintain various data sources and dashboards to track key project milestones standards, and lessons learned.
• Lead day to day operations and deliver on strategy and operational plans against the strategic vision for the company and client.
• Track and manage value logs monthly for qualitative and quantitative value adds to the client projects, client operations, and team.
• Utilize Cresa and / or client project tools and templates to maintain accurate project documentation files.

Requirements

This individual has an ability to communicate clearly with all parties involved in a project, including key stakeholders, internal customers, and team members to lead a project team to meet or exceed a common set of goals. They must be able to demonstrate exceptional customer service, teamwork, and attention to detail to ensure client satisfaction. They can deal with ambiguity and conflict while maintaining professionalism and focus on the project goals. This role includes business development and a focus on expanding current and future client opportunities. The Senior Project Manager must be a strong leader who contributes to Cresa’s values and team-oriented environment, with a positive, proactive, integrated, people-centric approach, with the ability and experience to motivate and keep the project delivery team aligned.

• PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization is preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; Role requires daily communication with client and team members.
• Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio.
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS/BEng/BArch) preferred.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, management, and integrations skills.
• Flexibility to travel as needed for individual projects.
• Demonstrate capability to read and understand project documents such as lease agreements, work letters, contracts, drawings, client work requests, and vendor proposals.
• Minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience in a project management capacity with experience in leading, motivating, and developing employees.
• Contract Management experience preferred.
• Construction project management experience required.
• The person in this role needs to be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
• Minimum of 9 - 10 years of related experience in project management, business management, or related area of study.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance