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

Capital Project Delivery Operating Model

Vertivs Capital organization serves as the owner-side project management function for real estate and facilities capital investments. Capital professionals are expected to be subject matter experts in project and program management and are accountable for ensuring projects achieve the business requirements financial objectives schedule commitments quality expectations and risk profile established by Vertiv.

Vertiv generally engages qualified third-party firms to perform detailed project execution including project management/construction management architecture engineering cost management scheduling construction commissioning and other technical services. Vertiv owns the project and business outcomes; qualified third parties execute the detailed project delivery activities.

• Business requirements development and validation
• Project objectives scope and success criteria
• Business case development and alignment with approved funding
• Owner-level budget schedule and milestone oversight
• Governance and stage-gate compliance
• Decision management and escalation
• Risk identification mitigation and escalation
• Scope and change control
• Executive and stakeholder reporting
• Cross-functional business coordination
• Commercial oversight and performance management of third-party delivery partners
• Commissioning transition and operational handover

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager Real Estate Capital Projects PMO & Operations is responsible for establishing owning and continuously improving the global management system used to govern Vertivs Capital project portfolio.

The role owns the standards processes controls systems data reporting and performance-management framework required to provide leadership with consistent and reliable visibility into capital investments and project performance.

This position serves as the operational backbone of the Capital organization and provides independent portfolio and project assurance by identifying material gaps in governance project controls financial reporting risk management and project performance.

The role is not intended to perform detailed project execution. Instead it ensures that project teams operate within a consistent scalable and disciplined framework and that leadership has the information required to make timely decisions.

Key Responsibilities Global Capital Governance

• Establish and own Vertivs global Capital Project Management framework.
• Define project lifecycle requirements stage gates approval standards and governance expectations.
• Establish minimum project-controls requirements based on project size risk complexity and type.
• Maintain standard processes templates tools and documentation.
• Provide independent assurance regarding project compliance with established governance.
• Portfolio Management & Executive Reporting
• Maintain global visibility of the Capital project pipeline and active portfolio.
• Develop executive reporting covering investment forecast schedule milestones risks changes and project health.
• Establish consistent definitions and reporting standards across regions.
• Identify portfolio-level trends systemic risks constraints and performance concerns.
• Convert complex project information into clear management insights and actionable recommendations.

Financial & Project Controls

• Partner with Finance to establish consistent capital forecasting and reporting practices.
• Define 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 inconsistencies in project reporting.
• Support reconciliation between project management reporting and financial systems.

Project Assurance

• 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 when performance risk or governance concerns emerge.
• Develop and track corrective actions arising from assurance reviews.

PMIS & Data Ownership

• 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.
• Establish appropriate project-data standards and governance.

Supplier & Performance Management

• Develop scorecards and performance metrics for major Capital delivery partners.
• Support performance reviews with project management design cost and construction providers.
• Identify recurring supplier-performance issues and coordinate corrective actions.
• Support development of preferred-provider and sourcing strategies.

Continuous Improvement & Capability Building

• 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.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes while strengthening financial control and project accountability.
• Support continuous development of Capital organizational capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in project management construction management engineering finance business real estate or 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 with the ability to convert 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.
• Preferred Qualifications
• 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.

Critical Competencies

Systems thinking Capital-project expertise Analytical rigor Financial acumen Process ownership Data integrity Independent judgment Executive communication Continuous improvement Change leadership