Business Transition & Move Management Services - Project Manager - Full-time / Part-time

The primary responsibilities of thisposition consist of planning and managing business transition and relocationprojects for corporate clientele. This is a lead management position responsiblefor the overall direction of activities associated with a corporate relocationproject.

While possessing strong written andoral communication skills, this individual must also have the ability toeffectively and professionally work with people of various disciplines andlevels within a corporate environment, including: real estate, facilitymanagement and IT teams, C-level executives, department heads, administrativeassistants, and end-users; as well as the project team, including: constructionmanagers, architects, engineers, building managers and physical movers.

Dutiesinclude the following:

• Develop overall relocation strategy including a detailed move plan for each department impacted by the relocation in order to minimize or eliminate any and all disruptions to client’s business operations
• Develop roles and responsibilities for client’s internal team members and external vendors including managing resource requirements
• Oversee and lead relocation team
• Coordinate and chair move team meetings
• Develop detailed move scope of work
• Develop communications plan to keep client leadership, move team and end-users informed of move plans and activities leading up to and including the physical relocation
• Develop and train a network of departmental move coordinators to service as “conduit” between Move Team and end-users
• Develop overall relocation budget and cost tracking in excess of $30 million
• Track and monitor project budget to control project costs
• Develop relocation schedule including detailed break-down of major tasks and resources required
• Develop project contingency plans
• Develop scopes of work for each subcontracted service associated with the relocation – i.e. physical move vendor, IT support vendor, move supplies etc.
• Work with client’s procurement and legal departments to develop and issue Requests for Proposal for all move-related vendors
• Provide vendor bid analysis and recommendations
• Develop move database using Microsoft Excel to track and disseminate end-user move information
• Use move database to develop pre-printed move labels, signage and drawings
• Create and provide reporting on internal and external service level agreements and KPI’s
• Develop detailed move logistics plan for all move phases
• Provide training in the overall move process to internal and external team members
• Audit move process for best practices, lessons learned and process improvement 
• Coordinate post move activities and lessons learned