Job Title

Project Manager

Job Description Summary

Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, helping clients transform the way people work, shop, and live. The firm’s 48,000 employees in more than 60 countries provide deep local and global insights that create significant value for occupiers and investors around the world. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest commercial real estate services firms with revenues of $5 billion across core services of agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, facilities services (branded C&W Services), global occupier services, investment management (branded DTZ Investors), tenant representation, and valuations & advisory. The Role is to Support Project Sugar, The EMEA Legal Entity Rationalisation (LER) Programme. It is a multi-year initiative to simplify the EMEA Legal Entity structure and bring significant financial and operational benefit to the EMEA region. The objective of the programme is to reduce 124 Legal Entities/Branches across 22 countries and 3 business lines to 60-70 legal entities/branches – 2/3 entities per country comprising Core, D&B and optional GOS IFM. The Programme has adopted a Stage Gate by Country Structure from Stage Gate 1 to 4. Stage Gate 1 is further split into a and b. The contract is for period of 15 months on a fixed term basis. The role reports into Sarah Winters, Chief Tax Officer, as the Project Sponsor and Julie Dawson, EMEA Portfolio Lead, as the Resource Manager, and is 100% dedicated to the project.

Role Purpose:

The role is in the Programme’s small PMO team which requires a versatile individual with strong business analysis, project planning and organisational skills.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Project and Workstream management and organisation

· Develop project plans & timelines by working with Project teams using Project templates

· Prepare and maintain accurate project plan, project reports and RAID items using standard format and templates

· Organise the relevant SMEs, Working Groups and Stakeholders to ensure quality and timely plan, project reports and RAIDs

· Ensure Project Plans and RAIDs are maintained in and C&W PMO System (PMO Standard) adhering to PMO guidelines.

· Schedule meetings, record actions and minutes to support Programme deliverables

· Support Programme lead in running key Programme design and planning meetings, minute taking and maintaining standard reports and artefacts

· Ensures that the project is smoothly handed over to functional teams following a formal gate review process.

Analysis & Reporting

o Maintain standard reports to support regular Programme reporting

o Provide ad hoc analysis as and when required in line with Programme deliverables

· Data and document gathering and management:

o Maintain LER Database

o Update and maintain standard reports with key data points and information.

o Maintain Data and Document repository by ensuring SharePoint site for Internal and External stakeholders

o Data and Document collection and, aggregation of data

o Management of data and document flow between internal and external stakeholders/SMEs

o Maintenance of data and document confidentiality as appropriate.

Qualifications:

· Project Management qualification such as PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, MSP certification, and/or Scrum Master preferred

Knowledge & Experience:

· Strong systems skills; excel expert level essential

· Technical and corporate functions project management experience

· Previous experience in legal entities restructuring projects and reorganizations with multifunctional scope (IT, Finance, HCM and Data)

· Competent in managing complex and high volume data and documents

· Experience of managing stakeholder expectations at all levels of the organization

· Experience leading cross-functional project teams

· Business report writing

· Proficient in the use of project management software such as Smartsheet, MS Dev Ops

· Ideally some knowledge of back-office financial business processes (P2P, O2C, R2R).

Skills & Personal Qualities:

· Business/Commercial background

· Keen attention to detail

· Very comfortable with working with multiple discipline stakeholders e.g. Tax, Finance, Legal, IT and external vendors

· Highly organised and flexible approach with ability to prioritise and work under pressure

· Management of remotely located project team members

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

· Critical thinking; analytical and problem-solving expertise

· Strong sense of ownership and accountability for programme success

· Time management; Ability to set and manage priorities for self and others and work to stringent project timescales

· Strong stakeholder management skills

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

· Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

· Be flexible on the hours worked

· Team player.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”