Sr. Project Manager - Chicago, IL

CBRE Group, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Project Manager to provide consulting services for assigned market or high-profile client accounts, guiding projects from initiation through completion. This role sits within the Project Management function and focuses on delivering value across complex real estate initiatives.

The successful candidate will lead multi-disciplinary teams, develop charters, manage schedules, protect scope, and ensure on-time project delivery while upholding CBRE RISE values.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple real estate projects from initiation through closeout.
• Ability to prepare scopes, budgets, schedules, and risk assessments.
• Strong communication and collaboration with clients and multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage all areas of project management for multiple real estate projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
• Work directly with clients to prepare scope of work, required resources, cost estimates, budgets, schedules, milestones, quality control, and risk.
• Define delivery resources, conduct RFPs, complete bid evaluations, and recommend resources to clients.
• Facilitate development of a charter and integrated timeline.

Skills

Project management

Client management

Construction management

Budgeting & cost estimates

Job description

Building Operations & Experience (BOE) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Classservices, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

About the Role:

As a CBRE Sr. Project Manager, you will be responsible for providing consulting services to an assigned market or high-profile client accounts to help achieve the company's strategic business objectives.

This job is part of the Project Management function. They are responsible for the management of projects from initiation through completion.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage all areas of project management for multiple real estate projects. This includes planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
• Work directly with clients to prepare all elements of the project. This includes the scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimates & budget, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
• Define the project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through the project qualification process. Conduct complex requests for proposals, complete bid evaluations, and recommend resources to clients.
• Facilitate the development of a charter and integrated timeline.
• Ensure all functions remain on schedule and issues get resolved or escalated.
• Facilitate regular meetings to review project status for active and pending projects.
• Collaborate to develop solutions and guide the project team through implementation and completion.
• Apply advanced knowledge to seek and develop new, better methods for accomplishing both individual and department objectives.
• Showcase expertise in own job discipline and in-depth knowledge of other job disciplines within the organization function.
• Coach others to develop in-depth knowledge and expertise in most or all areas within the function.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels and of divergent interest, to adopt a different point of view.
• Impact the achievement of customer, operational, project, or service objectives across multi-discipline teams. Work is guided by functional policies which impact the design of procedures and policies.
• Contribute to new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans in support of achieving functional goals.
• Communicate difficult and complex ideas with the ability to influence.