Link Logistics Real Estate
Program Director, Real Estate Financial Systems
Link Logistics Real Estate, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Link Logistics Real Estate (“Link”) is a leading operator of last-mile logistics real estate. Established by Blackstone in 2019, the company connects consumption, technology, and the supply chain across its portfolio, which spans more than half a billion square feet. With more than 5 percent of U.S. GDP flowing through our spaces, we leverage our scale, proprietary data and insights, and foundational focus on sustainability to drive success for our customers’ businesses and deliver value for our stakeholders. Link Logistics strives to be the most equitable and inclusive industrial real estate company in the business. We put our people, customers, and communities first and find ways to make a conscious, positive impact where we live and work, prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across our workforce to deliver an optimal employee experience.
Link Logistics Real Estate is seeking a senior-level Technology Program Director to manage a portfolio of strategic projects and programs to transform our digital platform, infrastructure and overall security profile. This technology portfolio director role will be over Link's finance departments (accounting, forecasting, investments, etc.). Link’s technology teams enable the work of multiple business teams and are fundamental to our ability enhance and scale our Real Estate and Asset Management business.
Responsibilities:Portfolio Management
Have delivery and financial oversight over a portfolio of projects and programs.
Be responsible for a team of project managers delivering projects and programs within the portfolio.
Hire and develop staff in the portfolio.
Ensure staff are adhering to ePMO processes and tooling standards.
Build effective teams that place high value on collaboration, customer focus, and a sense of ownership over all work products.
Contribute to enhancing ePMO processes and tooling.
Program/Project Management
Define the development and delivery strategy of multiple programs and projects through the following phases: Concept, Requirements Definition, Design, Build, Test, and Deployment.
Define operational and steady state hand-over to platform and product teams.
Maintain expert knowledge of CRE and PropTech products, services, and industry trends.
Develop and maintain a deep and broad understanding of Link’s business.
Manage work across an ecosystem of applications to solve Link’s business challenges and ensure the seamless flow of information throughout the platform.
Engage with business stakeholders to create and manage efficient task structures that equitably handle competing priorities across multiple teams.
Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) that build confidence in the programs and projects, and ensure delivered programs meet the needs and goals of the business.
Define program and project level plans in Link’s PPM product (Workfront) that house tasks, risks, issues, and financials.
Stakeholder Management
Engage with business leaders as their trusted advisor as it relates to delivery.
Develop partnerships with key stakeholders and business owners across all components of distributed Link business units.
Engage user communities in a continuous feedback loop that drives programs and projects forward.
Maintain collaborative relationships with the Link Technology and Data teams across architecture, engineering, and product groups.
Maintain relationships with external partners and vendors and enable them to deliver world-class service for Link.
Expert level communication skills to translate technical terms into clear capabilities that will enable business success.
Project Delivery
Oversee the development of business cases, user requirements, and project charters.
Adhere to Link ePMO project controls, frameworks, and phase gate deliverables throughout project life cycle.
Create and manage processes to prioritize projects, plan releases, and manage resources across a portfolio of projects & cross functional teams.
Create and maintain dependency plans requiring delivery from teams outside of assigned projects.
Create and manage processes for testing, release management, and change control, and hand-over to steady state product teams.
Manage communications with stakeholders, project team, business leaders and IT management.
Expertise managing projects in industry standard PPM tools such as WorkFront, Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Planner or Smartsheet.
Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years managing complex technology programs and projects.
Experience managing full time employees and contractors (as direct manager).
Experience running Yardi Voyager & Argus related programs highly preferred.
Experience running Blackline & Anaplan related programs nice to have.
Expertise in digital program management with business-critical technology initiatives across a variety of systems and application types.
Experience leading delivery strategy, discovery, and project initiation processes.
Experience working closely with Business Analysts, Architects, etc. to refine and clarify project requirements and design documents.
Experience leading scrum teams and program level scrum of scrum teams.
Leadership and team management skills in a highly cross-functional environment.
Project management or software development expertise including multiple delivery methodologies, e.g. agile, waterfall.
Ability to concisely articulate problems and analyze solution alternatives.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and relationship building skill.
Project Financial tracking including capitalization, invoice fulfillment and tracking, estimation, and reporting on actuals.
Knowledge of real estate industry and CRE technology.
Knowledge of Workfront, Clarity, Jira and other industry standard project management toolsets.
Experience managing projects and programs related to accounting, financial forecasting, and capital markets.
EEO StatementThe Company is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email People@linklogistics.com.
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Link Logistics Real Estate is seeking a senior-level Technology Program Director to manage a portfolio of strategic projects and programs to transform our digital platform, infrastructure and overall security profile. This technology portfolio director role will be over Link's finance departments (accounting, forecasting, investments, etc.). Link’s technology teams enable the work of multiple business teams and are fundamental to our ability enhance and scale our Real Estate and Asset Management business.
Responsibilities:Portfolio Management
Have delivery and financial oversight over a portfolio of projects and programs.
Be responsible for a team of project managers delivering projects and programs within the portfolio.
Hire and develop staff in the portfolio.
Ensure staff are adhering to ePMO processes and tooling standards.
Build effective teams that place high value on collaboration, customer focus, and a sense of ownership over all work products.
Contribute to enhancing ePMO processes and tooling.
Program/Project Management
Define the development and delivery strategy of multiple programs and projects through the following phases: Concept, Requirements Definition, Design, Build, Test, and Deployment.
Define operational and steady state hand-over to platform and product teams.
Maintain expert knowledge of CRE and PropTech products, services, and industry trends.
Develop and maintain a deep and broad understanding of Link’s business.
Manage work across an ecosystem of applications to solve Link’s business challenges and ensure the seamless flow of information throughout the platform.
Engage with business stakeholders to create and manage efficient task structures that equitably handle competing priorities across multiple teams.
Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) that build confidence in the programs and projects, and ensure delivered programs meet the needs and goals of the business.
Define program and project level plans in Link’s PPM product (Workfront) that house tasks, risks, issues, and financials.
Stakeholder Management
Engage with business leaders as their trusted advisor as it relates to delivery.
Develop partnerships with key stakeholders and business owners across all components of distributed Link business units.
Engage user communities in a continuous feedback loop that drives programs and projects forward.
Maintain collaborative relationships with the Link Technology and Data teams across architecture, engineering, and product groups.
Maintain relationships with external partners and vendors and enable them to deliver world-class service for Link.
Expert level communication skills to translate technical terms into clear capabilities that will enable business success.
Project Delivery
Oversee the development of business cases, user requirements, and project charters.
Adhere to Link ePMO project controls, frameworks, and phase gate deliverables throughout project life cycle.
Create and manage processes to prioritize projects, plan releases, and manage resources across a portfolio of projects & cross functional teams.
Create and maintain dependency plans requiring delivery from teams outside of assigned projects.
Create and manage processes for testing, release management, and change control, and hand-over to steady state product teams.
Manage communications with stakeholders, project team, business leaders and IT management.
Expertise managing projects in industry standard PPM tools such as WorkFront, Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Planner or Smartsheet.
Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years managing complex technology programs and projects.
Experience managing full time employees and contractors (as direct manager).
Experience running Yardi Voyager & Argus related programs highly preferred.
Experience running Blackline & Anaplan related programs nice to have.
Expertise in digital program management with business-critical technology initiatives across a variety of systems and application types.
Experience leading delivery strategy, discovery, and project initiation processes.
Experience working closely with Business Analysts, Architects, etc. to refine and clarify project requirements and design documents.
Experience leading scrum teams and program level scrum of scrum teams.
Leadership and team management skills in a highly cross-functional environment.
Project management or software development expertise including multiple delivery methodologies, e.g. agile, waterfall.
Ability to concisely articulate problems and analyze solution alternatives.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and relationship building skill.
Project Financial tracking including capitalization, invoice fulfillment and tracking, estimation, and reporting on actuals.
Knowledge of real estate industry and CRE technology.
Knowledge of Workfront, Clarity, Jira and other industry standard project management toolsets.
Experience managing projects and programs related to accounting, financial forecasting, and capital markets.
EEO StatementThe Company is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email People@linklogistics.com.
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