Senior Program Manager, Real Estate Capital Projects, Americas
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Westerville, OH, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, business, real estate, or related discipline.
- Typically 10+ years of progressive capital project or program management experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing significant and complex construction or capital investment programs.
- Advanced understanding of project controls, cost management, scheduling, procurement, contracting, risk management, and change control.
- Strong experience managing external project management, design, engineering, cost, and construction organizations.
- Ability to operate independently with senior business leaders.
- Strong analytical, written, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to travel based on project requirements.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering manufacturing, industrial, mission-critical, R&D, laboratory, warehouse, or technically complex facilities.
- Owner-side project management experience within a multinational corporation.
- Experience managing projects across multiple jurisdictions.
- PMP, CCM, RICS, PE, RA, or comparable professional certification.
- Experience with projects carrying significant operational or business-continuity risk.
Full description
Capital Project Delivery Operating Model
Vertiv's 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. Program Manager, Real Estate Capital Projects, Americas is a senior owner-side project management professional responsible for leading complex, high-value, and strategically important capital projects and programs.
The role represents Vertiv throughout the project lifecycle and is accountable for integrating business requirements, capital investment objectives, third-party project execution, risk management, decision-making, and leadership governance.
The Sr. Program Manager is expected to independently lead projects where the path to delivery may not be fully defined and where significant business, technical, financial, operational, or stakeholder complexity must be resolved.
The role operates with a high degree of autonomy while maintaining alignment with the applicable regional Major Projects leader and Vertiv's global Capital governance framework.
Total value of assigned CapEx projects will generally range from $50M-$100M. At times may significantly exceed $100M.