STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGER

ESFM, the corporate facilities management division of Compass Group USA, is seeking a Strategic Project Manager to lead enterprise projects. The role manages project scope, plans, budgets, timelines, stakeholders, risks, team coordination, reporting, and post-project evaluations.

Responsibilities:

• Works with and motivates the team to achieve the project time lines and objectives
• Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Develops full-scale project plans and associated project documents including resource needs
• Develops and delivers progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations; liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
• Defines project success criteria and disseminates them to involved parties throughout project life cycle
• Communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and manages those expectations on an on-going basis
• Builds, develops, and grows any business relationships vital to the success of the project
• Manages the project budget
• Determines and assesses the need for additional staff and make recommendations as appropriate during project cycle
• Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team
• Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path
• Proactively manages changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devises contingency plans
• Conducts the project post mortem and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Assisst in developing best practices and tools for project execution and management

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Three years of experience managing enterprise projects
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office programs and Microsoft Project
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines with a positive, can-do attitude
• Ability to work well under pressure as a key member of a fast paced team
• Superb oral and written communication skills