Jr Project Manager

**Farmboy Fine Arts® has an exciting opportunity for a Jr Project Manager to champion client experience through the project lifecycle of global art collections and programs**

**The Role**

The Project Manager is responsible for client experience in managing all assigned projects and developing strong partnerships with all project stakeholders. Critical to successful project delivery, the Project Manager creates and manages project schedules and budget KPIs, this includes managing profit expectations (cost/ revenue analysis). The Project Manager represents Farmboy’s suite of services, leading project stakeholders through the project process. Key to this role, the Project Manager provides effective communication to anticipate client needs and manage expectations.

**What you do**:

- Ensure the KPIs of the project are clear to project team, responsible for management of time by tracking team hours and the direct relationship to the project’s profitability.
- Owns client communication flow and documentation, proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates client needs on an ongoing basis to ensure set expectations are met and includes sales and vendor partners.
- Responsible for project scope management (schedule) throughout the project’s process, beginning with discovery and concluding with successful project delivery.
- Develops and manages master project plan & timeline in concert with project stakeholders, coordinates delivery of work and ensures all project processes are consistent with and support established goals, objectives, and policies.
- Understands project profit expectations to ensure projects are delivered to budget, includes validating business development qualifications (BDQ), estimates, vendor cost of goods and producing formal quotations.

**How you do it**:

- Leverage effective communication, project management fundamentals, including organizational skills to manage project scope and delivery successfully.
- Takes a proactive, solution-based approach to ensure projects are always moving forward and providing positive client experience.
- Ramps up project set-up in Farmboy systems incl. but not limited to project & opportunity codes and applicable briefing documentation.
- Vendor management to support budget management including the completion of the request for proposals (RFP), request for quotation (RFQ), request for sample (RFS) and value engineering exercises to manage client budget and project profitability for Farmboy.
- Specification design & development, providing VE & creative product solutions to aid clients with informed decision making of project scope.
- Manages (in coordination with Project Procurement) client expectations regarding product lead times, delivery installation and any order resolution.
- Follows Farmboy process and policy, and with continuous improvement of process in mind recommends changes to improve project workflows.
- Collaborates with all project stakeholders, for example the scheduling and completion of project post-mortems to support in the collection of learnings to impact new projects real-time and reflect on developed process.
- Active participant in daily project needs, and other meetings and duties as required and assigned.

**You bring**:

- 2-3 years experience in project administration or coordination
- Proficient in project management methodologies
- A process driven mindset and with a high attention to detail
- Strong time and resource management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Are a team player, and collaborator
- Excellent organizational skills

**Benefits of being a Farmhand**:

- Hybrid work environment - flexibility to work remote or in our brand-new office in East Vancouver
- Extended health, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance
- Health and Wellness Spending Account
- Remote working subsidy
- Work alongside some incredibly passionate and talented colleagues.
- As we are a growing organization, Farmhands who push us to the next level will always be rewarded. Make your career at the Farm.

**Who we are**:
Farmboy (Farmboy Fine Arts®) is a full-service international art advisory that designs impactful art programs and collections within hospitality, health, and corporate. With over 20 years of holistic advisory experience, Farmboy has collaborated with some of the world’s top interior design and architecture firms, ownership groups, and Fortune 50 companies.

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.
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 i