Associate Project Manager

Great American Holdings LLC

About The Position

As an entry-level Project Manager, you will work within the Machinery & Equipment (M&E) appraisal division of the firm. This division performs appraisals of various companies for its clients and delivers appraisal reports as the finished product. The collateral being appraised are fixed assets (not real estate or inventory). Our clients leverage these appraisal reports to make lending decisions or to satisfy financial requirements. The companies that are the subject of the appraisals are typically manufacturers or service providers. Our clients are primarily asset-based lenders but include private equity groups or even the subject companies. The APM verifies the scope of work for each appraisal project, assigns, and secures internal and external resources needed to complete the project, collects and analyzes data that will be compiled into the appraisal report, and actively communicates with our clients and internal project team as milestones are completed. It is the APM’s responsibility to foresee obstacles and come up with solutions in order to keep the project on track and within budget or be able to communicate any issues or delays responsibly and far in advance. Additionally, critical thinking skills commensurate with the expected industry experience are necessary to perform deeper analysis on key projects. Lastly, the APM will be responsible for taking on an additional role with regard to developing and growing the business itself. The APM will be asked to participate in key performance indicator measurements and discussions on future growth initiatives as well as responsibilities and actions required to put these initiatives into practice.

Requirements

Excellent communication skills through both internal and external channels along with the ability to work in a collaborative manner with a project team.
Successful candidates have very strong intuition, have top notch time management skills, are flexible, can adjust quickly to different audiences, are extremely detail oriented, and perform their job with a sense of urgency.
Ability to provide creative solutions to new and existing business problems
Critical thinking skills are necessary to perform deeper analysis on key projects.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Excellent proof-reading and editing skills
Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience is preferred.

Nice To Haves

Prefer two or more years of prior experience in asset-based lending, secured lending.

Responsibilities

Working through a training process with one of our Senior Project Managers via Teams.
Shadowing Senior Project Managers to learn their day-to-day activities.
Learning all features of our proprietary valuation software.
Creating practice appraisal reports within 30 days of hiring as a learning process.
Taking active appraisal reports from the template stage through the initial editing and adaptation to each project.
Learning our Project Management Software (PM+) and populating certain data points for each project throughout the process.
Uploading photos and asset data to our proprietary valuation software.
Managing 2-4 projects with supervision within 3-4 months of hiring and gradually increasing the workload within the first year, then gradually increasing project load as ready. Meeting deadlines is critical for our clients.
Learning the terminology and basic functions of both the lending and appraisal sectors
Provide excellent customer service that generates unsolicited positive feedback.
A candidate may be responsible for additional non-appraisal projects that may arise which may have effects on the business operations as a whole.