Senior Project Manager, Industrial - Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
Detroit, MI
About the Job
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PDS Industrial: Senior Project Manager
Inspire Our People
Core Competencies:
General:
- Cultivate positive relations with and between project managers/associates assigned to the Team.
- Market the company’s services to potential clients; maintains their favorable impression.
- Verbal and written communication skills are professional in style and technically proficient.
- Lead relationship manager for a single strategic alliance client or serves as a key resource to multiple client teams.
- Assists client in developing real estate strategy linked to client business objectives.
- Assists Team Leader in the development of the business unit’s service delivery strategy.
Own:
- Build rapport with key client project representatives.
- Cultivate new and existing business relationships.
- Obtain client referrals and testimonials.
- Proactively identify potential project issues.
- Collaborate with JLL peers, senior PMs, regional leads, practice leads, and SMEs to leverage JLL’s vertically integrated real estate services platform.
- Responsible for coordination of Associates, Analysts and other Administrative personnel on specific projects.
Support:
- Supervise, train, and evaluate PMs, APMs and PCs on projects.
- Foster an ethical environment of accountability, excellence, inclusivity, collaboration, and innovation.
- Identify and attract top talent.
Influence:
- Make a meaningful contribution to the development and execution of strategy for a Team, consistent with the strategy of the business.
- Involved with local and regional industry conferences and with clients as representative of the JLL.
- Set an example for others; continually enhancing the business by introducing and implementing new concepts and ideas.
Thrill our Clients
Core Competencies
General:
- Proficient understanding of drawings and specifications, and ability to identify adds/misses via quality control
- Consistent project and/or program delivery in adherence with the 5-phase process
- Manage relationships with clients and supplier partners
- Mentor/coach junior staff
- Often assigned as project/program point of escalation (clients/internal teams/suppliers)
- Understand client and vendor contracts to manage accordingly
- Understand the roles of JLL regarding HSSE and Sustainability practices
Own:
- Documents and correspondence saved in accordance with proper protocols
- Generate/obtain written change notifications and approvals from stakeholders
- Close out documents and signoffs are retained per JLL guidelines
- Leads client / stakeholder multiple project calls, meeting, updates, other
- JLL Project Review preparation, scheduling, and documentation
- Risk register monitoring and mitigation assurance relative to project scope, schedule, and budget
- Reviews/trains/mentor or manages junior staff members (budgets, risk registers, schedule, drawings, other, all)
- Project invoicing/forecasting/AR collections, financial updates
- Develop project scope and expectations
- Bid, qualify, and award supplier partners
- Ensure supplier partner insurance requirements
- Supplier score cards
- Obtaining necessary approvals (LL, permitting, etc.)
- Partial and final line waivers
- All items related to project closeout
- Case studies
Support:
- Leads or co-leads internal meetings (leadership, finance, other)
- Team Key Performance Indicators / Added Value logs for client publication
- Implementation of actions/change/enhancement
- Obtain client satisfaction survey
- Provides feedback/coaching to staff
- Staff adherence to creation/maintain of case studies/other
Influence
- Project review preparation, scheduling, and documentation
- JLL risk mitigation through alignment and delivery on contractual obligations
- Management of Clarizen Data Health
Grow the Business
Core Competencies
General:
- Contributes to the development and execution of strategy and regularly involved in decision making
- Crosses boundaries to build collaborative solutions
- Advanced understanding of lease language, act as SME to brokers
- Understanding of P&L financials and how actions impact the bottom line
Own:
- Preparation and production of proposals
- Networking across business lines internally and within the industry externally
- RFP's and management of bid process
- Expansion of existing relationships
- Maintain and nurture relationships with existing clients
- Pursuit of new business
- Ability to generate small business deals independently, or generate large deals as an integral team member
Support:
- Management of project team members' delivery on commitments
Influence:
- Development and execution of best practices
Roles & Responsibilities
Inspire our People:
- Collaborate with JLL peers, senior partners, regional leads, etc. to generate business development opportunities, strengthen relationships, build an internal network of SMEs, and provide support to other project teams.
Project Execution:
- Management of Adaptiveworks data health.
- Ability to work with clients to understand their project needs as well as their process (advanced manufacturing, assembly, warehousing & distribution)
- Generate, manage/update, and execute project schedules of varying detail – dependent on project type or client need.
- Complete preconstruction services including generation of RFPs, Bid Leveling documentation, identifying all applicable vendors, and making selection recommendations to the owner.
- Prioritizing vendors, long lead components, and project needs
- Ability to review, provide recommendation, and comments on all types of vendor and owner contracts.
- Acting as steward of owners money via Identifying, managing, tracking in adaptiveworks, and communication of cost saves to the owner.
Experience:
- At least 6-8 years experience in construction and 4 in industrial construction
Mentorship:
- Provide mentorship and leadership to junior members of the team, both formally and informally.
- Through management of projects, delegation of tasks, assistance with goal setting, and aligning team members with JLL Roles and Responsibilities.
- Place emphasis on development of team members through project execution – identifying and supporting opportunities for team member growth.
Leadership:
- Lead by example with excellent understanding of JLL 5 step project delivery method.
- Ability to champion all (5) steps of the JLL delivery method on multiple project delivery types (i.e. design-build, design-bid-build, site selection & preconstruction, construction, etc.)
- Ability to actively manage multiple projects, via methods of delegation of tasks to appropriate JLL project team members.
- Responsible for managing team member’s expectations of quality, timing and scope associated with
- Support team members in successful execution of projects and tasks
- Lead projects, with support of team members.
Business development:
- Actively championing own business development initiatives through networking with potential clients, industry peers, and industry partners.
- Actively working with the brokerage team to generate new leads and support industrial brokerage existing clients.
- Generating and/or assisting on proposals; his shall include: Coordinating proposal generation with sales enablement
- Setting timeline and expectations not only with sales enablement but also the client
- Generating or managing/delegating fee revenue schedule
- Generating or managing/delegating project schedule.
- Generating or managing/delegating project understanding, scope of work, etc.
- Generating or managing/delegating preliminary project budgets.
- Actively participating in regional and national networking events (conferences, local organizations, etc.)
Client Champion:
- Acting as client champion and single point of contact on past, current, and potentially future projects.
- Regular communication with client (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) including scope, schedule, and budget updates.
- Supporting other team members with their clients – generating relationships that allow coverage while other team members are way?
- Managing solicitation of pulse surveys, client satisfaction surveys, and project completion surveys
- Ensuring team members issue surveys in timeline manner
- Identifying client stakeholders to complete surveys
- Managing relationships with stakeholders/clients to complete surveys.
- Working through issues with client to ensure constant satisfaction
Location:
On-site –Detroit, MI
If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!
Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:
JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits may include:
401(k) plan with matching company contributions
Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
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