Project Manager Lead

Job Summary:
The Project Manager Lead is an embedded role, with one of Pinkerton's major global tech clients. The Lead will act as the primary project management point of contact for the client's Global Real Estate and Facilities and Financial Operations divisions.  
 
The role is responsible for the day-to-day management of functional and regional priority projects including the associated administrative or governance tasks, reporting, use of project tools and resources, leadership and stakeholder engagement, and the general coordination of project deliverables. The Manager will take an active role in facilitating the divisions involvement with planning, execution, and delivery of relevant projects. The position will have a hybrid work schedule (client location/remote).

Essential Functions:

1. Represent Pinkerton's core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
2. Act as the primary point of contact between the client's PMO and Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) and Financial Operations (FinOps) project managers.
3. Maintain effective liaison with all assigned customers and relevant stakeholders, including functional/regional leaders and project teams.
4. Provide project management support for GREF/FinOps projects on behalf of the client's corporate services including project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout.
5. Directly lead projects, where required or requested, on behalf of the client's PMO and its primary customers.
6. Ensure all managed projects are represented accurately in Projects, or other defined project management tool;
   • Provide accurate and timely data for all project management tools and reports.
7. Gather weekly project status reports from functional/team-level project managers.
8. Conduct bi-weekly coordination meetings with external customers to discuss integration needs with current or future projects.
9. Establish and chair monthly meetings with critical internal stakeholders and leaders to discuss project needs and PMO support.
10. Resolve customer issues with PMO tools and supported systems.
11. Create process documents, project templates, and other artifacts, as needed, to improve/optimize the management of projects across the client's corporate services.
12. Conduct project management training for teams and project managers, as required.
13. Ensure project data for metrics are supported for all PMO projects.
14. Provide routine project updates to relevant customers and stakeholder groups and formal report to corporate services leadership.
15. All other duties, as assigned.

Education, Experience, and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree in related field (Business Administration or Project Management) with at least five years of project and team management experience across multiple organizations or experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job, as determined by the company. Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, and/or agile is preferred.

Pinkerton is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal opportunity to all applicants for all positions without regard to race/ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital/prenatal status, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, religion, creed, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any protected status by local, state, federal or country-specific law.