Project Manager, Real Estate Services * Work from home

The American Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network, seeking a Project Manager for its Real Estate Services team. This role involves managing real estate strategies and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives while maintaining oversight of project execution and stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates, manages, and directs the development, approval, and implementation of real estate strategies to ensure consistent alignment while meeting stakeholder expectations and strategic objectives
• Gather the business requirements and to assess feasible options and conducts analysis to summarize functional team inputs
• Gather data from numerous sources develops business case PowerPoint presentation and receives approval to move forward with individual projects that were previously decisioned from the regions strategic plan
• Drives accountability to ensure successful project completion within schedule and budget
• Provides on-going guidance and oversight during execution to ensure results meet business case parameters
• Leads, drives and is accountable for all aspects of the strategy to ensure a successful project completion that meets the LOB requirements
• Assesses and mitigates project issues, interdependencies, risks, and financials and escalates as appropriate
• Manages cross-functional relationships across the enterprise to ensure real estate strategies and projects meet organizational and business objectives
• Maintains RES databases and reports on portfolio and project performance, status, timeliness of execution and budget to actual
• Oversight of capital budget and business analytic team member assigned to the project for accuracy of strategy approved. Other team members assigned will process the invoices
• Managing the project life cycle
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Outstanding judgment, leadership, organization, coordination, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage strategies in varying complexity and size
• Ability to manage the interfaces between lines of business, real estate, finance, and risk
• Ability to work independently and develop stakeholder relationships while maintaining confidentiality
• Strong project management background
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Managing the project life cycle
• Gathering, analyzing, coordinating, managing, and reporting on activities associated with real estate strategies
• Minimal 7 years relevant work experience in Real Estate project management
• PMP Certification preferred
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Project Management, Finance or Real Estate, equivalent work experience may be sufficient
• Strong interpersonal relationship building, collaboration and facilitation skills
• Exceptional problem-solving, time management and analytical skills
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information in a concise and relevant terms for business decisions
• Demonstrated skills in managing multiple projects cross-functionally
• Strong analytical skills in financial analysis and business case development
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office and preferred Real Estate Portfolio and Projects Systems (CoStar System)