Project Manager, IT

Company Overview

Berkshire Residential Investments is a people-first real estate investment company who values not only the impact we make as a company, but the time we spend together in our high-performing teams. We value individual skills and perspectives to allow us to best serve our employees, investors, residents, and other stakeholders.

If you’re interested in a workplace where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work each day, come join our talented and growing team at Berkshire Residential Investments. Our environment of entrepreneurial spirit, culture of expertise and our people-first approach will allow you to thrive while continuing to grow in your career.

Position Summary

The Project Manager, IT will own, drive and support IT projects of various scope and complexity for Berkshire.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Project Management

• Plans, directs and coordinates activities for information technology projects, ensuring goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed timeframe and budget.
• Manages several complex projects simultaneously.
• Reviews project plan to ascertain schedule, cost, equipment and staffing requirements
• Periodically reviews status of projects and makes adjustments as necessary
• Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems
• May coordinate project activities with other departments or customer
• Analyzes and documents process flows to understand gaps and identify potential optimizations
• Consistently demonstrate use of tact and discretion

Business Process Optimization

• Reviews business processes across the organization
• Captures business process and data flows in MS Visio or similar
• Identifies opportunities for optimization and efficiency in business processes

Strategic Planning

• Works with business areas to understand pain points and drive strategic initiatives
• Works with strategic working groups to prioritize initiatives
• Works with IT leadership to capture and communicate technology roadmap
• Aligns technology roadmap with business OKRs

Knowledge/Experience:

• Minimum Eight (8) or more years of Project Management experience
• Aptitude for organizing, prioritizing, and managing multiple priorities, using critical thinking and problem solving
• Demonstrated multi-modal communication style that reaches every stakeholder, specifically excellent verbal, and written communications
• Ability to communicate with and manage up to senior management
• Collaborative working style with inclusive work and thinking behaviors, commitment to excellence in teams and work product, with a strong work ethic
• Proficiency and willingness to adopt new systems and processes
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence in high pressure and sensitive situations
• Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions and apply critical thinking on business matters when appropriate
• Tenacity, patience, and perseverance to work with business deals from beginning to end of process
• Represent the Berkshire employment brand well to candidates by seeking to understand the capabilities and insights of people with unique backgrounds, cultures, styles, and abilities
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information and communications of information
• Develop productive working relationships with all team members including JV partners, property managers, project managers and third parties
• Demonstrated high level of ethics and integrity with a straightforward and honest approach
• Consistently demonstrate use of tact and discretion

Technical/Educational Requirements:

• B.S./B.A. degree
• Demonstrated ability to use and learn new technology (e.g., computers/hardware, mobile, software, cloud-based programs)
• Proficiency with computers, keyboards, monitors and telephone headsets
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite of Products (e.g., Word, Outlook, Excel, Visio, Teams, Power Point)

Berkshire Residential offers an excellent benefits package, focusing on our employees’ total health and wellness. We offer programs and incentives that promote physical, mental, financial, and behavioral wellbeing both within and beyond our workplace. Please visit our Careers page for full details – and to learn more about how we value our employees.

Berkshire Residential values diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Berkshire is committed to providing equal opportunity in all practices, including employees and applicants for employment. We ensure that decisions affecting employees are made without regard to their race, color, creed, national origin, age, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected status.