Real Estate and Relocation Director jobs in Illinois

• Have delivery and financial oversight over a portfolio of projects and programs

• Be responsible for a team of project managers delivering projects and programs within the portfolio

• Hire and develop staff in the portfolio

• Ensure staff are adhering to ePMO processes and tooling standards

• Build effective teams that place high value on collaboration, customer focus, and a sense of ownership over all work products

• Contribute to enhancing ePMO processes and tooling

Program/Project Management

• Define the development and delivery strategy of multiple programs and projects through the following phases: Concept, Requirements Definition, Design, Build, Test, and Deployment

• Define operational and steady state hand-over to platform and product teams

• Maintain expert knowledge of CRE and PropTech products, services, and industry trends

• Develop and maintain a deep and broad understanding of Link's business

• Manage work across an ecosystem of applications to solve Link's business challenges and ensure the seamless flow of information throughout the platform

• Engage with business stakeholders to create and manage efficient task structures that equitably handle competing priorities across multiple teams

• Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) that build confidence in the programs and projects, and ensure delivered programs meet the needs and goals of the business

• Define program and project level plans in Link's PPM product (Workfront) that house tasks, risks, issues, and financials.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage with business leaders as their trusted advisor as it relates to delivery

• Develop partnerships with key stakeholders and business owners across all components of distributed Link business units

• Engage user communities in a continuous feedback loop that drives programs and projects forward

• Maintain collaborative relationships with the Link Technology and Data teams across architecture, engineering, and product groups

• Maintain relationships with external partners and vendors and enable them to deliver world-class service for Link

• Expert level communication skills to translate technical terms into clear capabilities that will enable business success

Project Delivery

• Oversee the development of business cases, user requirements, and project charters

• Adhere to Link ePMO project controls, frameworks, and phase gate deliverables throughout project life cycle

• Create and manage processes to prioritize projects, plan releases, and manage resources across a portfolio of projects & cross functional teams

• Create and maintain dependency plans requiring delivery from teams outside of assigned projects

• Create and manage processes for testing, release management, and change control, and hand-over to steady state product teams

• Manage communications with stakeholders, project team, business leaders and IT management

• Expertise managing projects in industry standard PPM tools such as WorkFront, Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Planner or Smartsheet

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Expertise in digital program management with business-critical technology initiatives across a variety of systems and application types

• Experience leading delivery strategy, discovery, and project initiation processes

• Experience working closely with Business Analysts, Architects, etc. to refine and clarify project requirements and design documents

• Experience leading scrum teams and program level scrum of scrum teams

• Leadership and team management skills in a highly cross-functional environment

• Project management or software development expertise including multiple delivery methodologies, e.g. agile, waterfall

• Ability to concisely articulate problems and analyze solution alternatives

• Outstanding communication, presentation, and relationship building skills

• Project Financial tracking including capitalization, invoice fulfillment and tracking, estimation, and reporting on actuals

• Knowledge of real estate industry and CRE technology

• Knowledge of Workfront, Clarity, Jira and other industry standard project management toolsets

• Nice to have:

• Experience managing projects/programs related to sustainability/ESG technology

• Experience managing projects/programs with the Microsoft 365 suite of products: Teams, Azure, Co-Pilot, etc.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 10 years managing complex technology programs and projects

• Experience managing full time employees