Job Title

Area Manager

Job Description Summary

The purpose of this position is to manage and lead project management of a city responsible for individual, multi-disciplined real estate project solutions for clients, with direct accountability for projects delivery.

Job Description

About the Role:

• Oversee all facets of project management in the assigned city (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for individual real estate projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy and closeout.
• Demonstrates capability to read, understand and apply standard to complex documents affecting real estate projects, including but not limited to: agreements/contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys and drawings.
• Interfaces directly with clients to define project requirements. Prepares scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate & budget, cash flow, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
• Identify project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through individual project qualification process; conducts standard to complex request for proposals; completes bid analysis; leads evaluation interviews, recommends resources to clients.
• Oversee project delivery resources/team (typically larger more experienced team) providing project guidance and direction to achieve project goals.
• Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed. Facilitates project meetings.
• Review & Implement project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements. Ensure project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
• Review & Monitor progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines. Reports status and variances. Create action plans to meet objectives, budget and schedule.
• Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure client approvals, and issue change orders. Assesses change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk.
• Demonstrates ability to identify complex project risks, lead constructability reviews, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.
• Demonstrates knowledge of projects & project management within the context of business results (business case, larger economic implications, business risk, etc).
• Perform business development activities by meeting potential clients, responding to RFPs and seeking new business through a variety of avenues.
• Be responsible for customer relationship management by auditing ongoing projects and periodically reaching out to clients for feedback.
• Monitor employee satisfaction and minimize employee turnover in the team.
• Liaise with other businesses and verticals to maximize synergies.
• Ensure financial targets such as revenues and gross margins are being met consistently.

About You:

• B.E. Civil / Mechanical / Electrical
• 15 Years & above of relevant experience
• Should have completed at least 1-2 Hotel / Commercial / retail / fit outs projects end to end during the tenure
• Candidate working with Project Management Consultancy would be preferred
• Technical awareness of civil, electro-mechanical, and architectural works
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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