STRATEGIC FACILITIES PROJECT MANAGER PMO

Compass Group•Remote, NC

7d•$130,000 - $135,000

About The Position

The Strategic Project Manager PMO brings structure, pace, and accountability to high-priority initiatives across Support Services and the growing data center portfolio. The role coordinates cross-functional work from strategy through implementation, establishes clear governance and reporting, and ensures decisions lead to measurable business outcomes. The successful candidate will work in a complex, fast-paced environment where priorities may change and results depend on influencing and collaborating without direct authority. The role sits within Compass Group North America's Support Services Hub and contributes to the growth, consistency, and operational maturity of Crothall, ESFM, SSC, managed services, and emerging data center opportunities. Candidates should ideally be located in the Central or Eastern region and be willing to travel approximately 50%–75%, based on business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, operations, project management, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience is considered.
Five or more years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or PMO work.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, deadlines, and competing priorities.
Strong business and financial acumen, including comfort with budgets, forecasts, KPIs, and business cases.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex work easy for leaders to understand.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and project management tools.
Willingness to travel periodically to operating locations, client sites, and data center markets.

Nice To Haves

Experience in facilities management, foodservice, construction, engineering, data centers, outsourcing, or another complex operating environment.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic projects supporting Support Services growth, data center readiness, operating model evolution, and cross-sector initiatives.
Manage portfolio intake, prioritization, sequencing, and resource planning; evaluate value, urgency, risk, dependencies, and capacity to recommend trade-offs and allocation decisions to leadership.
Build project charters, workplans, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, decision logs, and executive reporting.
Coordinate work across operations, finance, solutions, sales and growth, EHS, HR, procurement, technology, and external partners.
Translate business objectives into practical project plans with clear owners, dates, measures, and escalation paths.
Prepare concise updates for senior leaders that identify progress, decisions required, risks, and business impact.
Establish repeatable PMO standards, templates, meeting cadences, and governance routines for the Support Services Hub.
Track financial, operational, talent, and implementation assumptions for data center pursuits and active programs.
Identify barriers early, drive resolution, and maintain momentum across teams with competing priorities.
Support post-launch reviews and convert lessons learned into improved processes and playbooks.
Maintain the portfolio management system and executive dashboards as the authoritative source for project status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and benefits.
Lead formal project closeout, acceptance, documentation transfer, stabilization, and transition to operational ownership.