Project Manager - South Asia, Asia Pacific International

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Overview

SOM is actively recruiting a dynamic Architectural Project Manager to join the firm with South Asia and multi-national managerial experience. You will be joining a highly motivated and proactive team, working on multidisciplinary projects delivered across several geographies, with the potential to grow and thrive. Your efforts will directly contribute to enhancing project efficiency and sustainability, ensuring successful project outcomes that align with the Firm’s mission. This role is ideal for someone passionate about sustainable design and innovation, ready to make a meaningful impact in the architectural landscape. Building rapport and establishing positive relationships with existing and prospective SOM International clients to ensure client-focused performance. Approach to all projects requires a high degree of flexibility and creativity, excellent presentational skills and an ability to communicate effectively with clients and consultants. The successful candidate shall be charged with the delivery of Project Management Services within our Client focused and highly motivated professional team. Travel: we want you to have the opportunity and the ability to adapt to different travel schedules and durations depending on the project needs.

Position Responsibilities

• Leads the Architectural Project Team through close collaboration with SOM Partners project leadership to achieve design, technical and financial success.

• Prepares, with Leadership input, quality agreements with clients including letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, and professional service agreements. Executes additional service agreements and gains authorization by phase.

• Collaborates with Partners and senior team to prepare, issue, and manage compliance plans to align project goals including budget, deliverables and schedule. Gains agreement with the senior team for labor allocation. Chairs weekly team meetings to address variances from the project plan.

• Administers internal control procedures with Project Accountant including billing, collections, percent complete, expense management, and year-end activities. Analyzes project reports and proactively manages the profitability of a project.

• Participates actively in project design and technical discussions and decision making.

• Communicates actively through chairing weekly meetings, issuing meeting minutes, accurate project record keeping and sharing project information and correspondence.

• Assists in Managing the owner/client relationship and expectations to allow SOM and team to work effectively, efficiently and collaboratively.

• Participates in new business and marketing efforts including responses to marketing requests and maintenance of firm relationships.

• Initiates, monitors and maintains project schedule and work plan including schedule of meetings and presentations.

• Schedules and leads internal team weekly project meetings; develops the meeting agenda and project status update.

• Initiates, monitors and maintains project plan and financial performance of project.

• Initiates and maintains SOM-Client Services Agreement, SOM Sub-Consultant Agreements and requests for additional services.