What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC?
ABOUT GREYSTAR
Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $315 billion of real estate in 250 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 1,000,000 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $78 billion of assets under management, including over $36 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in translating strategic ideas into executable plans, defining success criteria, engaging the right stakeholders, and delivering outcomes that enable business adoption and value realization.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Primary Responsibilities and Activities:
- Review and manage project proposals, plans, and Greystar's project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with timeframes, funding, scope, and resource requirements.
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members, holding them accountable for their activities and deliverables.
- Collaborate with external service providers or consultants to ensure successful project execution and provide updates to internal stakeholders.
- Facilitate alignment across cross-functional teams by clarifying roles and responsibilities, coordinating activities, and enabling effective decision-making.
- Conduct proactive risk assessment, management, and issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identify and remove roadblocks to maintain project momentum, and adapt project plans as challenges or new information emerge.
- Monitor project activities, ensuring quality and consistency in project information across the organization.
- Work with project leadership to establish and facilitate project governance, including a project steering committee.
- Serve as a consultative delivery partner, helping business leaders solve problems, not just manage tasks.
- Ensure project goals are aligned with business objectives and deliver measurable business value.
- Translate strategic ideas into actionable roadmaps with clear success criteria and defined work components.
- Prepare status reports and modify schedules or plans as needed.
- Collaborate with leadership to optimize project delivery and governance.
- Partner with the change management team throughout the project lifecycle to support stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption planning.
- Regularly review resource capacity and utilization, ensuring adequate project support.
- Partner with accounting for project budgeting and spend analysis.
- Actively set and manage project stakeholder expectations.
- Ensure effective handoff of completed projects to operational teams, supporting business transition and sustainability of outcomes.
- Facilitate lessons learned sessions and document improvement opportunities to inform future project delivery.
Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution; Master’s degree preferred. Project management training and certification are desirable.
Experience
- Minimum seven years experience managing complex projects in matrixed organizations
- Five years of experience in management or technology consulting is required.
- Five years of experience managing non-IT projects is required.
- Experience in leading cross-functional, geographically dispersed diverse teams
Knowledge and Skills
- Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. This blend is vital because this is a highly visible position with substantial impact.
- Skilled in translating strategic ideas into executional roadmaps and structured action plans.
- Ability to adapt to new circumstances in a changing business environment.
- Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major, defined program management approaches (for example, that of the Project Management Institute or PRINCE2 and agile approaches).
- Significant knowledge of project planning/scheduling tools (for example, Clarizen, Microsoft Project, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Jira, etc.), with a solid track record of practical application.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; expertise in setting and managing customer expectations.
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly control resources.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain customer trust and confidence.
- Ability to support a tactical resource plan by mapping future demand to forecast project completions in the project portfolio.
- Ability to define and measure project success through both business outcomes and stakeholder adoption, not just delivery of outputs
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Additional Compensation:
Many factors go into determining employee pay within the posted range including business requirements, prior experience, current skills and geographical location.
Corporate Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in a quarterly or annual bonus program based on individual and company performance.
Onsite Property Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly bonus programs.
Robust Benefits Offered*:
Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
For onsite team members, onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
Employee Assistance Program.
Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans.
Charitable giving program and benefits.
- Benefits offered for full-time employees. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles, compensation and benefits may vary from the listed information above due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority.
Greystar will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
