Program Manager

Overview:
**BE An Expert. BE Ambitious. BE A Game Changer.** Be all that and more at Colliers Project Leaders. Join our team as a Program Manager - Corporate Facilities in Vancouver, BC.

At Colliers Project Leaders, we help our clients succeed by helping them build amazing workplaces, businesses and communities around the world. We do this by thinking differently, sharing innovative ideas and offering a unique and collaborative workplace where you can succeed.

We’re searching for an experienced program manager with a background in commercial facilities management and corporate offices who is looking for the next growth opportunity in a leadership role. You have a knack for leading programs of projects such as workplace planning, tenant fit-ups and improvements, commercial building renovations and system upgrades as well the interest and aptitude for process development and improvement.

At Colliers Project Leaders, we are building and infrastructure projects leaders. Our **Get it Right Solution** ensures we get it ready, get it built and get it performing - so investors, owners and occupants are certain of success.

Colliers Project Leaders is a leading Canadian building and infrastructure project delivery solution provider. We provide integrated and strategic solutions for program and project leadership, and we act as trusted advisors on capital projects. With 30 offices across Canada, our multidisciplinary team of project management and advisory professionals offers unparalleled depth and expertise to capital projects. Colliers Project Leaders has completed more than 15,000 projects to date, deploying our proprietary tools and techniques to ensure success for our clients.

**Responsibilities**:

- Proactively lead a portfolio of projects, processes and events by; tracking progress, resolving issues, escalating risks, managing dependencies, ensuring sufficient resourcing and financial oversight and reporting to achieve corporate benefits
- Provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers
- Execute projects ranging from workplace planning and strategy development to corproate office fit-ups and improvements, commercial building renovations and system upgrades, energy and sustainability programs and more
- Project manage select projects to sucessful completion
- Lead stakeholder engagement and management for your program of projects working across both functional and business leadership levels
- Report across the client’s business at multiple levels including senior leadership, project teams, working groups and operations to summarize high level project plans, secure buy-in and ongoing support
- Identify metrics for measuring ROI using data to analyze strengths and opportunities for improvement
- Assess, procure, integrate and maintain new tools and systems in support of corporate workplace facilities
- Build trust with your clients, so they rely on your knowledge, skills and expertise to achieve their business goals and objectives
- Remain nimble and agile when addressing competing client and stakeholder requests, requirements and concerns

Qualifications:

- A university degree, college diploma or an equivalent combination of academic and practical experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in project and program management in a fast paced, fluid and dynamic environment (i.e., private sector)
- Professional training in Program and Project Management ideally with formal certification such as PgM or PMP
- Facilities management and/or workplace planning experience is considered a strong asset
- Adaptable and can work efficiently in a highly fluid, unstructured environment with dynamic change and many unknowns
- An interest and aptitude for process development, process improvement and change management
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with a proven ability to effectively influence others and resolve client, project and workplace facility challenges
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint; Working knowledge of MS Project and Smartsheets

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