Head of Projects

Company: CBRE
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: September 1, 2024

Job Description:

Head of Projects

Job ID

180041

Posted

14-Aug-2024

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Project Management

Location(s)

Milwaukee - Wisconsin - United States of America

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

About this Role:

Own and deliver the business unit project plan, developing and leading their teams in the safe delivery of projects in a principal delivery model ensuring sufficient training and development of talent. Have overall responsibility for generating a sales pipeline to deliver revenue to the BU and projects are secured and delivered on time and within the financial requirements and margins as specified by the business. Building external relationships with clients and supply partners to deliver major projects. Ensure that all projects adhere and are managed to commercial agreements / contracts compliant with statutory regulations, are QHSE compliant and meet technical industry standards.

What you'll do:

• Ensure the safe delivery of projects through the management of risk and competence in a principal delivery model.
• Recruit and retain talent for the present delivery and future growth of projects.
• Provide leadership in identifying and specifying project opportunities.
• Deliver contractual commitments on secured projects.
• Ensure projects are delivered on all maintenance contracts.
• Complete projects in line with local playbooks on time, on budget and to the satisfaction of all parties.
• Identify, reduce and manage all risks (technical, statutory, health and safety, commercial or otherwise) associated with each and every project.
• Maximize profit through cost reductions and better buying of subcontractor services.
• Plan and develop long term opportunities by creating a pipeline of opportunities. with colleagues ma
• Liase managers to determine and identify project opportunities. Create case studies to promote business and host key decision makers on show site tours.
• Develop and manage all bids, tenders and proposals.
• Responsible for generating and securing new sales to exceed the annual financial plan.
• Seek out opportunities to generate projects through innovation and different technologies.
• Lead the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings.
• Identify and win project through effective relationships.
• Deliver supportive business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other applications as appropriate.
• Promote and maintain the core values of CBRE.
• Support development of team members
• Contribute to Business unit strategy development
• Delivery wider strategy and new process delivery across projects business ensuring compliance with projects business governance.
• Manage Business unit forecast
• Manage people issues and underperformance
• Negotiate contractual obligations and disputes upstream and downstream
• Chair monthly and ad hoc project review meetings covering all aspects of Health & Safety / Legislation and financial requirements.
  
  What you'll need:
  
  
  • Recognized technical qualification in Construction, Mechanical or Electrical or similar (desirable)
  • Degree level qualification in Project / Construction Management, engineering, or architecture (desirable)
  • Experience of creating, presenting and managing on bids, tenders and proposals.
  • Willingness to travel on occasions to support operational delivery, and participate in training and business review.
  • Accountability to the Business Unit Leader (directly) and Divisional Project Director (indirectly)
  • Generation of project opportunities by building strong effective working relationships with our customers and site teams.
  • Full P & L responsibility for Business Unit
  • Accountable as line manager for others.
  • Compliance with CBRE management policies and procedures.
  • Ensure compliance with CBRE health and safety policy and process whilst ensuring that they are effectively implemented across both CBRE and its subcontractor's activities. These are to be regularly audited and reviewed.
  • Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, ability to influence, an excellent relationship builder, ability to inspire confidence
  • Excellent motivational and influencing skills, with high levels of personal integrity
    
    Why CBRE?
    
    When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realise your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.
    
    Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing.
    
    At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills.
    
    Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
    
    Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company's success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).
    
    NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.
    
    CBRE GWS
    
    CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
    
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