Real Estate IT Project Manager

Job Title: Real Estate IT Project Manager

Contract Lenght: 6 Months Contract

Location: Remote, Travel required for this position: 25%

Job Description

Global Business Services is designed to provide services to the business units in the areas of technology, sourcing, procurement, corporate real estate/facilities, legal, finance, and human resources. These global centers promote team collaboration using best practices around a specific focus area to drive results and enhance operational efficiencies. There is a constant endeavor to benchmark against best-in-class industry standards to improve the quality of deliverables, increase cost savings, enhance productivity and reduce time to market for products and applications. We have a Project Manager position opportunity available within Project Management Office in the Global Business Services Division. This division is going through substantial growth, with corporate initiatives to hire and retain top talent driving excellence and technological growth for the company. We are looking for a Project manager who will be responsible for delivering and managing various initiatives in domestic [North America] and international Corporate real estate projects. He or She will have to work closely with Program/ Project Management, Architecture & Engineering, Security, Corporate real estate, Network, workplace technology, Applications and Client executives across various Business units. Essential Duties and responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Lead functional teams to successfully deliver initiatives supporting various Business units
2. Adopt entrepreneurial mindset to lead and manage project teams and continuous improvement planning deliverables
3. Ability to simultaneously manage multiple complex projects that will vary in scope
4. Design, Develop and Maintain a detailed work breakdown of tasks to be accomplished for the initiative and ensured that tasks are getting accomplished on time and within budget
5. Create an effective communication plan covering various stakeholders across GBS and Business units
6. Ensure that solutions are being delivered per standards of availability, scalability and security point of view and that are done on time with highest quality
7. Experience working with hardware, software and services vendors
8. Maintain comprehensive knowledge of industry standards, methodologies, processes and best practices
9. Understand the use of industry tools / technology & their impact on project & operational goals

Represent WK  within the industry by developing and maintaining comprehensive knowledge of products, industry trends and general business and financial acumen through various sources and initiative. Communicate WK competitive advantage to customers in a compelling articulate manner in speech, writing and formal presentation.

Education:

Required: Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related experience.

Preferred: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or MBA or related experience

1) Experience: Minimum 5+ years’ experience in managing complex IT Real estate projects

2) Proven experience working with Enterprise Architecture, Project and Program Management, business requirements, implementation and finance teams

3) Adept in stakeholder management and executive communication (both verbal and written) as well as presentation skills

4) Experience in strategic project(s) planning process with focus on alignment between business and IT

5) Ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced team environment with geographically dispersed associates and vendors

6) Flexible mindset to reach desired goals

7) Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with business partners and vendors.

8) Demonstrated excellence in technical project management methodology and procedures with seasoned negotiation skills

9) Demonstrate effective decision making by leveraging analytical and problem-solving skills

10) Previous experience in implementing project management best practices, tools, metrics and standardization of processes

11) Demonstrate the entrepreneurial mindset by playing an active role in delivering projects and continuous improvement opportunities

12) Demonstrated experience in coordinating with deliverables across various groups to accomplish business deliverables and goals.

13) Ability to conduct an analysis of business needs, including scheduling meetings, planning agendas, conferring with business line leaders, documenting, and making verbal and written presentations

14) Demonstrated budget management, risk management, tracking and forecasting skills and experience

15) Demonstrated on-time and on-budget system delivery skills and experience

16) Strong knowledge of organization policies and procedures