Junior Project Manager

Farmboy Fine Arts; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Farmboy Fine Arts is seeking a Junior Project Manager (Jr PM) to oversee project buying, ensure order accuracy, and maintain vendor relationships. This role involves coordinating project processes, managing team hours, and meeting commercial targets, all while fostering strong client relationships in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Hybrid flexibility to work remote or at the office

Extended health, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance

Health and Wellness Spending Account

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in project administration or coordination.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail with a process-driven mindset.

Responsibilities

• Manage project buying and ensure order accuracy.
• Organize client information and ensure project processes meet established goals.
• Track project data and support vendor communications.

Skills

Project management methodologies

Time management

Resource management

Communication

Organizational skills

Job description

The Junior Project Manager (Jr PM) handles managing project buying, ensuring order accuracy, and providing vendor support for all assigned projects. The Jr PM will also take ownership of specific projects from start to finish as assigned by the Project Manager, ensuring project goals are met while fostering client relationships and adhering to Farmboy’s operational standards. The role includes order processing and supporting vendor communications as necessary.

What you do:

• Ensure the commercial targets of the project are met, responsible for management of both team hours and all project costs to achieve target margins. Monitor team hours, own responsibility for scope management, set clear expectations with team & client.
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis. Set expectations clearly, supporting with client communication flow and documentation and tracking of that communication.
• Organize and ensure the correct flow of appropriate client information and references to the team, ensure accurate tracking of project data and context in associated systems.
• Coordinate delivery of work and ensure all project processes are consistent with and support established goals, objectives, and policies.
• Ensure projects are executed within appropriate budgets and within the required schedules.

How you do it:

• Ramp up project set-up in Farmboy systems incl. but not limited to project & opportunity codes and applicable briefing documentation.
• Manage purchases, prepare orders and resolve any issues
• Review specification packages ensuring correct documentation and package accuracy.
• Create client quotes while maintaining appropriate tier margins.
• Coordinate with outside vendors and fabricators including quoting, sampling, and VE exercises.
• Process purchase orders, including RFI handling, margin reviews, and production proof checks.
• Manage client expectations effectively regarding Farmboy process, lead times, allocated project hours and creative packages.
• Specification design & development, providing VE & creative product solutions.
• Ensure all project deliverables meet the quality, cost, and time requirements.
• Actively participate in daily team meetings, and other company meetings as necessary.
• All other duties as required and assigned.

You bring:

• 1-3 years of experience in project administration or coordination
• Proficiency in project management methodologies
• A process-driven mindset with a high attention to detail
• Strong time and resource management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player with a collaborative approach
• Exceptional organizational skills

Let us know if you:

• Have experience working with Salesforce or Asana

Benefits of being a Farmhand:

• Hybrid flexibility to work remote or at our office in East Vancouver
• Extended health, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance
• Health and Wellness Spending Account
• Work alongside some incredibly passionate and talented colleagues
• Farmhands who push us to the next level will always be rewarded, make your career at the Farm!
  
  Who we are:
  
  Farmboy Fine Arts is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion, and collaboration in the workplace. Employment practices within our organization including but not limited to hiring, promotion, termination, training, compensation, and benefits are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
  
  Join Our Team!
  
  If you are a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a passion for project management and customer experience, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!We encourage employees to bring their most authentic, creative, and collaborative selves to work. Building an environment with individual strengths, working together to better the company and the art we put into the world.
  
  At Farmboy Fine Arts (Farmboy), we’re spatial activists, striving to change lives with art. Our work imparts creativity and artful thinking into built environments, delivering more engaging experiences. We pursue this goal across borders, industries and cultures. From curating multi-tiered art strategies and collections, to developing custom artwork, to art investment and management, we create authentic connection with the built environment in alignment with our clients’ vision.