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Retail Project Management Team Lead – JLL

What this job involves:

As a Retail Project Management Team Lead specializing in retail construction/interior buildout, you will be directly responsible for executing complex project goals through agile and strategic leadership while leveraging a national platform to focus on and lead industry changing projects that influence the future of work. Your strong knowledge of construction projects from start to finish will speak to your holistic approach to client needs, with your influence founded in facilitating critical stakeholder meetings, providing on-site project leadership and applying financial acumen to meet client goals. You will contribute to the establishment and refinement of work quality, cultural initiatives and best practices to drive results as a team while demonstrating the ability to contribute to the culture, growth and development of a team by providing onsite leadership to ensure performance criteria and standards are being met.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Execute complex project goals through agile and strategic leadership

• Lead industry changing projects that influence the future of work

• Facilitate critical stakeholder meetings and provide on-site project leadership

• Apply financial acumen to meet client goals and manage extensive project financials including capital planning

• Lead and manage project management teams with minimum 5 years people-management experience

• Develop procedures and winning strategies to guide teams to successful project execution

• Manage client and vendor relationships for seamless conflict resolution and account maintenance

• Provide onsite leadership to ensure performance criteria and standards are being met

• Monitor project financials and progress using exceptional data interpretation skills

• Collaborate with transaction managers, facility managers, engineers, and planning teams

• Calculate construction benchmarks and manage resource allocation across teams

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience related to project or construction management

• Minimum 5 years people-management experience including resource management

• Extensive project financial experience including capital planning and calculations of construction benchmarks

• Retail construction project management experience required

• Demonstrated high level of performance in project budgeting, contract negotiations and scheduling

• Strong working knowledge of architectural and MEP drawings along with furniture and space planning concepts

• Exceptional data interpretation skills for monitoring project financials and progress

• Proven self-starter with strong organizational skills, capacity to prioritize, sets aggressive goals and consistently delivers results

• Previous experience working in a matrixed environment with Project Management teams

• Exceptional communication skills with ability to support teams through influence, advice, and modelled behavior

• Strong understanding of real estate life cycle and proven ability to collaborate across disciplines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management

• Banking/financial institution project management experience

• Experience with retail construction/interior buildout projects

• Leadership experience in team development and performance management

• Proficiency in project management technology tools with commitment to continuous skill development

• Experience finding solutions to complex problems in collaborative environments

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to remain calm under pressure

• Track record of acting decisively, thinking big, and managing time to meet deadlines in fast-paced, high-volume environment

• Advanced experience in capital planning and financial benchmarkin