Program Manager - BMS

CBRE; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global workplace solutions provider is seeking a skilled project manager in Birmingham. This role involves organizing stakeholder meetings, overseeing project implementation, ensuring project adherence to frameworks, and providing guidance to contractors across Europe. Candidates must have a degree in Project Management, experience with building services, and the ability to travel 10-15% across Europe. Strong problem-solving skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools are essential. Excellent career development and financial management responsibilities are included.

Qualifications

• Experience of building services and control systems is required.
• Available to travel across Europe as needed to support the program.
• Understanding of mechanical, HVAC and electrical building systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Organizing, attending and leading stakeholder meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Manage internal financial reporting.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.

Skills

Project management

Energy efficiency auditing

Building automation systems

Problem solving

Microsoft Office

Education

Degree ideally in Project Management

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• Organizing, attending and leading stakeholder meetings.
• Work with client stakeholder groups across North America & Europe to provide weekly reporting.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensuring project deadlines are met and supporting the CBRE project managers succeed with their projects.
• Providing procedural as well as technical guidance to General Contractors executing BMS projects across 8 European Countries. The support may require both remote as well as on-site visits to these projects, including European travel.
• Provide a structured governing project management body
• Provide a centralized management structure for all project management functions
• Provide project portfolio reporting capabilities
• Outline a well-defined project management process or methodology
• Mentor and train team members to support team development
• Developing project strategies.
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution
• Oversee implementation and ongoing program management across several countries
• Serve as liaison between on-site technical teams, account leadership, and client contacts.
• Support Client’s wider sustainability and corporate social responsibility objectives
• Create a win-win situation to solve client problems while growing the CBRE business.
• Responsible for the change management process, both at a project and programme level.
• Ensure SLAs compliance, especially for key KPIs such as programme schedule and finance.
• Manage internal financial reporting.
• Achieving/exceeding financial goals.
• Responsible for escalation management, both internal and client facing.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Degree ideally in Project Management
• Experience of building services and control systems is required
• Energy efficiency auditing experience preferred
• Available to travel across Europe as needed to support the program. Average 10-15% travel expectation but may increase from time to time
• Understanding of mechanical, HVAC and electrical building systems, building automation systems, intelligent building systems is preferred.
• Experience in Niagara based control systems is preferred
• Problem solving ability in implementation of energy auditing, energy conservation projects, recommissioning and M&V is preferred
• Programme management and budget management skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client‑centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry’s most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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