Sr. Manager, Real Estate, Capital Projects (PMO) Operations Manager

Vertiv Group•Westerville, OH

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Real Estate, Capital Projects PMO & Operations establishes, owns, and continuously improves the global management system used to govern Vertiv’s Capital project portfolio. The role owns the standards, processes, controls, systems, data, reporting, and performance-management framework that provide leadership with consistent visibility into capital investments and project performance. It serves as the operational backbone of the Capital organization and provides independent portfolio and project assurance by identifying gaps in governance, project controls, financial reporting, risk management, and project performance. The position does not perform detailed project execution. Instead, it ensures project teams work within a consistent, scalable, disciplined framework and that leaders have the information needed to make timely decisions. Vertiv’s Capital organization acts as the owner-side project management function for real estate and facilities capital investments. Qualified third parties generally perform detailed project delivery activities, while Vertiv retains responsibility for project and business outcomes. The role establishes global governance and project lifecycle standards; maintains portfolio visibility and executive reporting; partners with Finance on capital forecasting and reporting; independently reviews project assurance concerns; owns the Capital business requirements for project-management systems and data; supports supplier performance management; and advances continuous improvement and capability building across the Capital organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in project management, construction management, engineering, finance, business, real estate, or a related discipline.
Typically 10+ years of experience in capital projects, project controls, PMO leadership, portfolio management, or related disciplines.
Strong understanding of capital project lifecycle management and owner-side governance.
Demonstrated experience with cost, schedule, risk, change, and portfolio reporting.
Strong analytical capability and ability to turn project information into actionable management insights.
Experience developing standardized processes across multiple projects, teams, or regions.
Demonstrated experience with PMIS, project-controls platforms, reporting, or analytics tools.
Strong written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience within a global manufacturing, industrial, mission-critical, or corporate real estate organization.
Experience establishing, transforming, or operating a Capital PMO.
PMP, PgMP, AACE, CCM, or comparable certification.
Experience with Power BI, PMIS platforms, project-controls systems, or related analytics tools.
Experience managing outsourced project-delivery models.

Responsibilities

Establish and own Vertiv’s global Capital Project Management framework, including lifecycle requirements, stage gates, approval standards, governance expectations, and minimum project-controls requirements.
Maintain standard processes, templates, tools, and documentation, and provide independent assurance regarding compliance with established governance.
Maintain global visibility of the Capital project pipeline and active portfolio.
Develop executive reporting on investment, forecast, schedule, milestones, risks, changes, and project health using consistent definitions and standards across regions.
Identify portfolio-level trends, systemic risks, constraints, and performance concerns, and turn complex project information into management insights and recommendations.
Partner with Finance to establish consistent capital forecasting and reporting practices, including standards for budgets, commitments, forecast-at-completion, contingencies, cash flow, and variance reporting.
Establish standards for baseline schedules, milestone tracking, change control, and risk management; monitor data quality and challenge reporting inconsistencies.
Support reconciliation between project-management reporting and financial systems.
Independently identify material deficiencies in project controls, governance, risk management, schedule management, or financial reporting.
Escalate significant concerns to the Sr. Director – Capital Projects; support targeted project reviews and develop and track corrective actions arising from assurance reviews.
Serve as the Capital business owner for project-management systems and related technology platforms.
Define functional requirements for PMIS capabilities, dashboards, workflows, and reporting; drive user adoption, process consistency, and data quality.
Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve decision support, and establish project-data standards and governance.
Develop scorecards and performance metrics for major Capital delivery partners and support performance reviews with project management, design, cost, and construction providers.
Identify recurring supplier-performance issues and coordinate corrective actions; support preferred-provider and sourcing strategies.
Facilitate lessons-learned reviews and convert findings into process improvements.
Benchmark Capital practices against industry standards and leading owner organizations.
Develop training and onboarding materials for Capital professionals and support continuous development of organizational capability.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes while strengthening financial control and project accountability.