Senior Program Manager- Program Management (Portfolio/PMO)

Turnertownsend; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced PMO Senior Program Manager to lead program strategy within the Real Estate sector, with cross-sector experience and transferable skills. You will oversee the development of strategic business cases, benefits realization, and the program charter, ensuring alignment to corporate objectives and capital plans.

The role requires leading a program framework, master schedules, risk management, and continuous improvement of delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in the construction industry.
• Proven record of successfully implementing processes and procedures on construction projects or programs.
• Experience with managing a program of connected projects with a collective value of $10M to $100M.
• Competent user of data management software and systems for data management, analytics, and quality assurance.
• Self-motivated and dependable; ability to prioritize workload and be organizationally astute.
• Demonstrate experience communicating and managing with multiple internal and external stakeholders such as design teams, client corporate real estate teams and contractors.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully complete and present program reports to Clients and articulate progress, change, key risks, issues and critical factors in a concise manner.
• An articulate leader with business insight to balance commercial objectives against program compliance requirements.
• Ability to lead a team to setup, mobilize and deliver a capital investment plan, program, or pipeline of connected projects.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of the defined programs strategic business case - covering all projects or programs within execution and delivery scope.
• Responsible for the definition and the fulfillment of benefits, objectives, and the realization of success criteria - aligned to the approved strategic business case.
• Responsible for gathering and recording of the execution and delivery scope requirements - documented in an overall program charter or execution plan.
• Responsible for defining the program RACI inclusive of function and organizational roles and responsibilities.
• Responsible for documenting lean, established methods, processes and procedures are used for managing projects and programs throughout a life cycle.
• Responsible to produce and maintain the overall program framework / playbook - the document is inclusive of the program execution plan and delivery methodology.
• Responsible for maintaining tools and templates aligned to the agreed program execution plan and delivery methodology.
• Responsible for implementing an information management system integrated with execution processes and procedures developed to provide a 'single source of truth'.
• Responsible for the analysis, prioritization, and control of projects and programs in line with the strategic objectives and team and organizations capacity to deliver.
• Responsible for the management of resource planning and resource forecasting aligned to the strategic business case or capital investment plan.
• Responsible for identifying strategic portfolio and program stakeholders, maintaining communication, influencing stakeholder involvement, and obtaining input as required.
• Responsible for managing the program and portfolio master schedule that is driven by data at a project or program level.
• Responsible for the assessment of impact or potential impact of connected projects, identifying methods for resolving issues in relation to interfaces across the program.
• Responsible for analyzing program risk and opportunities trend and their respective cost and schedule impact.
• Responsible for defining an overall approach to continuous improvements incorporating strategic objectives and alignment with defined benefits and targets.
• Responsible for oversight of capital project delivery, ensuring projects are delivered according to process, within governance framework, and in line with schedule and budget expectations.

Skills

Data management

Analytics

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or a related technical field

Job description

Turner & Townsend are seeking an experienced Program Management Office (PMO) Senior Program Manager within our Program and Portfolio Management service line. The role will be focused within our Real Estate sector - the ideal candidate will have experience across multi sectors and have transferrable skills.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development of the defined programs strategic business case - covering all projects or programs within execution and delivery scope.
• Responsible for the definition and the fulfillment of benefits, objectives, and the realization of success criteria - aligned to the approved strategic business case.
• Responsible for gathering and recording of the execution and delivery scope requirements - documented in an overall program charter or execution plan.
• Responsible for defining the program RACI inclusive of function and organizational roles and responsibilities.
• Responsible for documenting lean, established methods, processes and procedures are used for managing projects and programs throughout a life cycle.
• Responsible to produce and maintain the overall program framework / playbook - the document is inclusive of the program execution plan and delivery methodology.
• Responsible for maintaining tools and templates aligned to the agreed program execution plan and delivery methodology.
• Responsible for implementing an information management system integrated with execution processes and procedures developed to provide a 'single source of truth'.
• Responsible for the analysis, prioritization, and control of projects and programs in line with the strategic objectives and team and organizations capacity to deliver.
• Responsible for the management of resource planning and resource forecasting aligned to the strategic business case or capital investment plan.
• Responsible for identifying strategic portfolio and program stakeholders, maintaining communication, influencing stakeholder involvement, and obtaining input as required.
• Responsible for managing the program and portfolio master schedule that is driven by data at a project or program level.
• Responsible for the assessment of impact or potential impact of connected projects, identifying methods for resolving issues in relation to interfaces across the program.
• Responsible for analyzing program risk and opportunities trend and their respective cost and schedule impact.
• Responsible for defining an overall approach to continuous improvements incorporating strategic objectives and alignment with defined benefits and targets.
• Responsible for oversight of capital project delivery, ensuring projects are delivered according to process, within governance framework, and in line with schedule and budget expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or a related technical field.
• Candidate should have a minimum of 7 years of experience in the construction industry.
• Proven record of successfully implementing processes and procedures on construction projects or programs.
• Experience with managing a program of connected projects successfully with a collective value of $10M to $100M.
• Competent user of data management software and systems for data management, analytics, and quality assurance
• Self-motivated and dependable. Must have the ability to prioritize workload and be organizationally astute.
• Demonstrate experience communicating and managing with multiple internal and external stakeholders such as design teams, client corporate real estate teams and contractors.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully complete and present program reports to Clients and articulate progress, change, key risks, issues and critical factors in a concise manner.
• An articulate leader with business insight to balance commercial objectives against program compliance requirements.
• Ability to lead a team to setup, mobilize and deliver a capital investment plan, program, or pipeline of connected projects.

*On site requirements might change based on client's needs.*

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