AVP, Project Manager
Who We Are
Revantage is a Corporate Services affiliate of The Blackstone Group, the world's largest alternative investment firm. Revantage provides a highly skilled employee base, best-in-class processes, and state-of-the-art technology to multiple Blackstone real estate portfolio companies. Sectors include Hospitality, Industrial, Multi-Family, Office, Retail, Senior Housing, and Manufactured Homes.
Revantage, headquartered in Chicago, is one of three global offices that includes Revantage Asia and Revantage Europe.
What We Value: Our Culture
Creating a culture that inspires change and momentum require the right team. We know what it takes to lead an industry, and are looking for leaders who seek constant growth, want to excel, and continuously improve upon themselves and the industry. The culture at Revantage is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:
- Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams.
- Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible.
- Leaders - We commit to continuously improve our performance.
- Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes.
- Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners.
Why This Role Is Valuable
As a critical member of the PMO team, you will be responsible for ensuring the timely delivery of projects, initiatives, and activities across multiple data- and technology-related work streams. You will support Technology leadership and Portfolio Companies in ensuring timely delivery of key projects and initiatives. You will also play an important role in informing leadership and technology stakeholders on milestone execution, issues, and risks. You will compile, prepare, and present information for project and program updates and presentations. Additionally, you will help build mechanisms for monitoring the overall program progress, coordinate and drive the operational areas of Revantage's technology projects through implementation. The PMO team will ensure effective partnership with internal and external stakeholders to effectively deliver key initiatives. This position can be based out of Revantage's headquarters in Chicago or New York, Dallas or Miami.
How You Add Value
- Plan, lead, coordinate, and monitor activities of one or more projects covering all phases of the project life cycle ranging from project initiation to implementation.
- Drive close project collaboration across business, technology, and third-party teams to deliver projects that are on time, on budget, and in scope with strong stakeholder alignment and buy-in leveraging a project delivery framework.
- Collaborate with project teams to define project scope, deliverables, and corresponding project governance & decision gating to minimize risks, ensure success, and effectively meet strategic objectives.
- Partner with cross functional project task owners to develop detailed timelines, identify interdependencies, manage & track progress, and proactively surface issues and risks address on-going progress, issues, risks, delivery outcomes, etc.
- Enable and motivate project teams into high functioning collaborators by leveraging effective project communication, documentation, meeting facilitation, and timely issue management.
- Track project related costs against budget and forecast and provide cost transparency to all stakeholders.
- Complete special projects as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What You Bring To The Role
Required:
- Bachelor's degree Required in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, or any closely related field
- Minimum of 5 years in project management preferably in a technology organization
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A demonstrated track record of taking ownership of complex initiatives and producing successful outcomes
- PMP, CAPM, or other relevant project management certification(s) a plus
- Understanding of agile methods and processes
- Demonstrated knowledge of project management tools such as MS Projects, MS Server, Plainview, Niku HP, or Wrike, Airtable, Smartsheets, Clarity, Primavera
- Experience in the areas of process optimization, change management, process management and standardization
- Knowledge in collaboration tools such as Teams and SharePoint preferred
- Experience in usage of JIRA, ADO, Confluence preferred
Perks for You
- Competitive salary, overall compensation and 401(k)
- Work-life balance offerings include:
- Remote work policy
- Productivity Hours - weekly meeting-free work time
- Bi-weekly Summer Fridays
- In-house and external learning & development opportunities
- Generous health insurance and wellness benefits
EEO Statement
Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer . We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements and business needs without regard to race, color, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, religion, disability, citizenship status, national origin, pregnancy, veteran status and or any other legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email [email protected] .
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