Program Manager - BMS in City of London

This role can be performed remotely from a European Country. Responsible for providing Program Management to technical Energy & Sustainability projects for a leading e-commerce client. This role is responsible for providing procedural as well as technical guidance to General Contractors executing BMS projects across 8 European Countries. The role requires establishing partnerships across client Construction Managers, General Contractors and BMS vendor partners across these countries to maintain and grow this business.

Job Responsibilities:

• Organizing, attending and leading stakeholder meetings.
• Work with client stakeholder groups across North America & Europe to provide weekly reporting.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensuring project deadlines are met and supporting the CBRE project managers succeed with their projects.
• Providing procedural as well as technical guidance to General Contractors executing BMS projects across 8 European Countries.
• The support may require both remote as well as on-site visits to these projects, including European travel.
• Provide a structured governing project management body.
• Provide a centralized management structure for all project management functions.
• Provide project portfolio reporting capabilities.
• Outline a well-defined project management process or methodology.
• Mentor and train team members to support team development.
• Developing project strategies.
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
• Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
• Oversee implementation and ongoing program management across several countries.
• Serve as liaison between on-site technical teams, account leadership, and client contacts.
• Support Client's wider sustainability and corporate social responsibility objectives.
• Create a win-win situation to solve client problems while growing the CBRE business.
• Responsible for the change management process, both at a project and programme level.
• Ensure SLAs compliance, especially for key KPIs such as programme schedule and finance.
• Manage internal financial reporting.
• Achieving/exceeding financial goals.
• Responsible for escalation management, both internal and client facing.

Person Specification:

• Degree ideally in Project Management.
• Experience of building services and control systems is required.
• Energy efficiency auditing experience preferred.
• Available to travel across Europe as needed to support the program. Average 10-15% travel expectation but may increase from time to time.
• Understanding of mechanical, HVAC and electrical building systems, building automation systems, intelligent building systems is preferred.
• Experience in Niagara based control systems is preferred.
• Problem solving ability in implementation of energy auditing, energy conservation projects, recommissioning and M&V is preferred.
• Programme management and budget management skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project.