Senior Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Review and manage project proposals, plans, and Greystar’s project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with timeframes, funding, scope, and resource requirements.
• Provide leadership and motivation to project team members, holding them accountable for their activities and deliverables.
• Collaborate with external service providers or consultants to ensure successful project execution and provide updates to internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams by clarifying roles and responsibilities, coordinating activities, and enabling effective decision-making.
• Conduct proactive risk assessment, management, and issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify and remove roadblocks to maintain project momentum, and adapt project plans as challenges or new information emerge.
• Monitor project activities, ensuring quality and consistency in project information across the organization.
• Work with project leadership to establish and facilitate project governance, including a project steering committee.
• Serve as a consultative delivery partner, helping business leaders solve problems, not just manage tasks.
• Ensure project goals are aligned with business objectives and deliver measurable business value.
• Translate strategic ideas into actionable roadmaps with clear success criteria and defined work components.
• Prepare status reports and modify schedules or plans as needed.
• Collaborate with leadership to optimize project delivery and governance.
• Partner with the change management team throughout the project lifecycle to support stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption planning.
• Regularly review resource capacity and utilization, ensuring adequate project support.
• Partner with accounting for project budgeting and spend analysis.
• Actively set and manage project stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure effective handoff of completed projects to operational teams, supporting business transition and sustainability of outcomes.
• Facilitate lessons learned sessions and document improvement opportunities to inform future project delivery.

Qualification & Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution; Master’s degree preferred. Project management training and certification are desirable.

Experience

• Minimum seven years experience managing complex projects in matrixed organizations
• Five years of experience in management or technology consulting is required.
• Five years of experience managing non-IT projects is required.
• Experience in leading cross-functional, geographically dispersed diverse teams

Knowledge and Skills

• Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
• Skilled in translating strategic ideas into executional roadmaps and structured action plans.
• Ability to adapt to new circumstances in a changing business environment.
• Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major, defined program management approaches (for example, that of the Project Management Institute or PRINCE2 and agile approaches).
• Significant knowledge of project planning/scheduling tools (for example, Clarizen, Microsoft Project, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Jira, etc.), with a solid track record of practical application.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain customer trust and confidence.
• Ability to support a tactical resource plan by mapping future demand to forecast project completions in the project portfolio.
• Ability to define and measure project success through both business outcomes and stakeholder adoption, not just delivery of outputs

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
• Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
• For onsite team members, onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
• 6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
• 401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
• Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans.
• Charitable giving program and benefits.