About the Role
Cumming Group is seeking a Director, Project Management (Hospitality) for their New York, NY office. This client-facing role offers the opportunity to work on luxury hospitality and retail projects within a dynamic environment. The team's standard is to 'manage each project like we own it', providing integrated project and cost management services.
Responsibilities
- Oversee large or multiple project teams, supervising communications with client management and controlling scope, cost, and schedule.
- Bring new business opportunities to the firm through performance excellence and positive client relationship management.
- Maintain monthly project budgets for current and forecasted expenditures.
- Be responsible for monthly billing and projections.
- Lead staff development through supervision, training, coaching, and mentoring.
- Anticipate issues and help team members and partners avoid and recover.
- Develop and oversee RFPs for consultants and contractors.
- Develop and facilitate owner consultant, Architect, & GC RFPs.
- Observe potential internal/external conflict and implement proactive solutions.
- Train junior team members with a focus on building technical skills and competencies.
- Attend work during normal business hours.
Requirements
- Experience overseeing multiple project teams (whole program) of various sizes.
- Demonstrated ability to create and maintain positive client relationships.
- Ability to maintain monthly project budgets.
- Experience developing RFPs for various scopes & providers.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring and training junior team members.
- Manage and monitor team members' activity in alignment with organizational goals.
- Delegate while providing clear instructions and ongoing feedback.
- Monitor metrics and course correct as necessary while holding self and others accountable.
- Provide feedback to senior leaders and clearly communicate organizational direction to team members.
- Build relationships with key internal resources (peers, direct reports, & senior leaders).
- Create development opportunities and plans for direct reports and teams; provide ongoing feedback.
- Ability to move from project tasks focus to more business mentality.
- Demonstrate leadership traits and represent company values in a client-facing capacity.
- Firm knowledge and understanding of construction methods, materials and sequences, and architectural/construction drawings and specifications.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent business presentation skills.
- Ability to effectively interface with all levels of management and staff across organizational lines, including other client business units.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Demonstrated success at building team relationships and partnerships across organizational lines.
- Experience working on luxury hospitality and luxury retail projects is required.
Skills
- Project Management
- Cost Management
- Scheduling
- Client Relationship Management
- Budget Management
- RFP Development
- Mentoring
- Training
- Leadership
- Communication
- Analytical Skills
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of PM experience overall including management
Education Level
- BS in Construction, Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, Urban Planning, or related field.
- CCM, PMP, PE, AIA, LEED certifications are preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $165,900.00-$232,233.37 per year
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Short and long-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program
About the Company
- Cumming Group is one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, with over 60 offices globally.
- We are passionate about helping our clients execute large-scale, complex projects on-time and within budget.
- Our project and cost-management services are specifically tailored to each client’s needs and add meaningful value at every step of a project’s development.
- Drawing on deep expertise in the communities and sectors we serve, we anticipate and solve problems, deliver solutions, and drive results.
- Since opening our doors in 1996, Cumming Group has grown to 50+ offices globally, and is now home to more than 1,950 team members.
Equal Opportunity
- Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices.
- It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law.
- All such decisions are based on (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.
- All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described above.
- To this end, Cumming Group complies with all provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, all of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor, and all similar state and local laws.
