PMO, Program Manager

cw; United States; Sur place; USD 132 000 - 155 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive benefits

Equal Opportunity employer

Résumé du poste

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead complex, enterprise-wide programs and govern multiple workstreams, aligning delivery with strategic objectives and contractual commitments. You will provide executive visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

In this role, you will drive governance, establish delivery frameworks, and accelerate execution while ensuring quality and continuous improvement across the PMO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-wide programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Prosci, Agile/Scrum or similar certifications preferred.
• Experience leading PMO functions.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Own delivery health and oversight for a portfolio of strategic programs.
• Translate executive priorities into executable roadmaps and resource plans.
• Establish and improve PMO governance, templates, and reporting.
• Provide strategic guidance to project managers and navigate complex delivery challenges.
• Monitor portfolio risks, dependencies, and cross-functional impacts.
• Represent PMO in executive forums and planning discussions.
• Lead rapid decision-making for urgent executive initiatives.

Connaissances

Executive presence

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Delivery governance

Strategic planning

Formation

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Description du poste

Job Title

PMO, Program Manager

Job Description Summary

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing complex programs composed of multiple, interrelated projects to ensure delivery aligns with strategic business objectives, service commitments, and contractual obligations. This role defines and implements program governance, integrates delivery across workstreams, and provides leadership with clear visibility into progress, risks, financial health, and outcomes. Operating independently with urgency and rigor, the Program Manager drives decision-making, resolves program-level issues to closure, and serves as a primary liaison between project teams and executive leadership while setting high standards for quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Own delivery health and oversight for a portfolio of strategic programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives, executive priorities, customer commitments, and defined success criteria.
• Translate executive priorities into executable roadmaps, delivery strategies, governance models, and resource plans that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve project and program management methodologies, governance frameworks, operating rhythms, templates, reporting standards, and best practices across the PMO.
• Provide strategic guidance and support to project managers by helping navigate complexity, mitigate risks, resolve stakeholder conflicts, and overcome delivery challenges.
• Monitor and proactively manage portfolio-level risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and cross-functional impacts; develop mitigation plans and elevate issues requiring executive attention.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors and senior leadership by framing options, trade-offs, risks, recommendations, and investment decisions.
• Lead resolution of the most complex cross-functional risks, issues, conflicts, and escalations to protect business outcomes and maintain delivery momentum.
• Act as a rapid-response leader for urgent executive initiatives by establishing governance, defining delivery frameworks, facilitating stakeholder alignment, and accelerating execution until dedicated resources are assigned.
• Champion enterprise-wide initiatives that need a programmatic solution.
• Represent the PMO in executive forums and planning discussions, providing recommendations on portfolio prioritization, resource investments, organizational readiness, and execution strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required, MBA is preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive project, program, portfolio management, or management consulting experience leading complex, enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives.
• Knowledge of commercial real estate, professional services, or service-based delivery organizations preferred.
• PMP, PgMP, Prosci, Agile/Scrum, or comparable certifications strongly preferred.
• Proven experience leading PMO functions or enterprise program management.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence senior leaders, executive sponsors, and cross-functional stakeholders in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly assess situations, establish structure, and provide solutions to drive execution.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate's experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 131,750.00 - $155,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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