Senior Project Manager

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Project Manager to work in our People + Places Advisory (PPA) group.  This position will manage teams across multiple strategy and design projects while leading clients through design strategy and change management processes to transform their spaces.  This position is open to both a hybrid and remote work situation. 

Responsibilities of the Senior Project Manager are as follows:

• Manages a portfolio of projects with a variety of clients, managing more complex clients and projects
• Manages the day-to-day operational aspects of a project, including the budget, hourly effort, base scope, and additional services, with management of all project phases through to close-out
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to the client, team, and internal leadership
• Responsible for timely and accurate invoicing, monitoring receivables, and the collection of AR
• Responsible for delivering revenues assigned from specific clients as a result of repeat business caused by flawless execution of projects
• Consistently delivers profit margins planned, completing projects without write-downs or multiplier erosion
• Manages day-to-day client interaction, communications, and meeting coordination
• Ensures project documents, including legal documents, contracts, and task orders are reviewed, approved, signed, and filed per the AECOM project management framework
• Assumes responsibility (in partnership with the Market Leader and Project Approver) for financial, technical, and design excellence, overall quality, and client satisfaction
• Delivers engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.  With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.  Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc., and many Fortune 500 companies. 

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS in Architecture or related field plus four (4) years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Due to the nature of this work, U.S. Citizenship is required 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Adobe Creative Suite (especially InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop)
• Virtual collaboration platforms, such as Miro and Mural
• Data analytics and visualization programs, such as PowerBI and Tableau
• Space and building design software, such as AutoCAD, Revit, and 3D Studio Max
• Strong writing skills
• Experience with public speaking and/or workshop facilitation
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Microsoft Teams
• Data analysis using Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrated research and analysis abilities (quantitative and/or qualitative)
• Graphic design and visual communication know-how, especially in producing infographics or conceptual illustrations
• Familiarity with change management, process design, and/or organizational development
• Professional experience leading clients through design strategy and change management processes to transform their spaces
• Has the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, creative envir