Senior Program Manager, Real Estate Capital Projects, Americas

Vertiv Group • Westerville, OH

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About The Position

The Senior Program Manager, Real Estate Capital Projects, Americas is a senior owner-side project management professional who leads complex, high-value, strategically important capital projects and programs, generally totaling $50 million to $100 million and sometimes significantly more. The role represents Vertiv throughout the project lifecycle and integrates business requirements, investment objectives, third-party execution, risk management, decision-making, and leadership governance. It independently leads projects with substantial business, technical, financial, operational, or stakeholder complexity, operating with significant autonomy while aligning with the applicable regional Major Projects leader and Vertiv’s global Capital governance framework.

Vertiv’s Capital organization owns project and business outcomes, while qualified third-party firms typically perform detailed project execution and technical services. The Senior Program Manager provides owner-side oversight of those partners and is accountable for business requirements, approved funding, scope, schedule, quality, risk, governance, reporting, commercial performance, commissioning, transition, and operational handover.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, business, real estate, or a related discipline.
• Typically 10 or more years of progressive capital project or program management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing significant and complex construction or capital investment programs.
• Advanced understanding of project controls, cost management, scheduling, procurement, contracting, risk management, and change control.
• Strong experience managing external project management, design, engineering, cost, and construction organizations.
• Ability to operate independently with senior business leaders.
• Strong analytical, written, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to travel based on project requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering manufacturing, industrial, mission-critical, R&D, laboratory, warehouse, or technically complex facilities.
• Owner-side project management experience within a multinational corporation.
• Experience managing projects across multiple jurisdictions.
• PMP, CCM, RICS, PE, RA, or comparable professional certification.
• Experience with projects carrying significant operational or business-continuity risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex capital projects and multi-project programs from initial definition through completion and operational handover.
• Develop project strategies aligned with business capacity, manufacturing, engineering, workplace, infrastructure, and real estate requirements.
• Establish governance, decision rights, escalation protocols, stage gates, and performance expectations.
• Provide leadership across geographically and functionally diverse teams.
• Lead requirements-development processes with senior business and functional stakeholders, challenge discretionary scope, and ensure requirements are sufficiently defined before major commitments.
• Maintain alignment among the approved business case, scope, capital investment, schedule, and operational objectives.
• Lead resolution of complex business decisions affecting project outcomes.
• Serve as Vertiv’s senior owner representative and direct third-party project management/construction management, architecture, engineering, cost management, scheduling, and construction partners.
• Set expectations for external suppliers and hold them accountable for delivery performance.
• Review and challenge execution strategies, master schedules, cost plans, procurement strategies, and recovery plans.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve owner decisions early enough to protect project outcomes.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, contingencies, cash flow, committed costs, and potential exposures.
• Challenge cost growth and validate proposed scope and change requests; partner with Finance and Procurement on capital controls.
• Participate in sourcing strategy, consultant and contractor selection, contract development, and commercial negotiations.
• Evaluate financial and schedule implications of project alternatives and recommend actions.
• Establish risk-management processes, identify systemic and emerging risks, and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Lead intervention and recovery activities when projects materially deviate from approved plans, and escalate critical matters through the regional Major Projects leader with options and recommendations.
• Report project status, financial performance, milestones, risks, decisions, and required actions to senior leadership; provide objective assessments of project health.
• Facilitate project governance and investment reviews and ensure reporting accurately reflects project conditions.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to Program Managers and other project team members.
• Promote consistent owner-side project management practices, share lessons learned, and support continuous improvement.
• Support deployment of global Capital standards and processes.
• Lead or support Major Projects when assigned, within the governance established by the applicable regional Major Projects leader.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior