About You:
You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.

If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!

About Us:
Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.

Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.

We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.

Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too! Avison Young has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 13th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation!

Avison Young is currently seeking a Vice President, business application and PMO responsible for developing, implementing and overseeing the strategic program and project excellence across the Company Portfolio globally, ensuring the successful delivery of all work for our clients, while reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer. Preferred candidates will illustrate a successful track record in project management oversight experience, demonstrating their ability to lead a group, identify tasks and ensure progress of objectives.

The successful candidate must demonstrate both strong business and technical acumen and be able to lead and manage with expertise and credibility. The candidate should participate in and expect frequent communication and engagement with others. Versatility is desired as much time will be spent bringing together a multitude of talents and must be willing to adapt the talents to changing assignments as required. The successful candidate will be people-oriented and have significant experience working with a wide range of people, from diverse backgrounds, and possess ability to achieve "win-win" outcomes. As the job requires assertiveness and a "will to win" in dealing with highly competitive situations, a competitive attitude is key.

• Strategic Planning: As part of Global Technology leadership team, develop and execute a comprehensive strategy for the organization's business applications, aligning technology initiatives with business objectives and long-term goals.
• Oversee information technology Project Management Office (PMO)
• System Implementation and Integration: Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of business systems, ensuring seamless integration with existing infrastructure and applications.
• Process Optimization: Identify opportunities to streamline business processes and workflows through the effective use of technology, automation, and best practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across departments, including finance, operations, sales, marketing, to understand their needs and priorities and ensure that business systems effectively support their requirements.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with technology vendors and service providers, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, and adherence to service level agreements.
• Build and develop a team of PMO Experts (including executive leaders), embedded both regionally and centrally, to deliver improved processes and tools and to enhance execution capabilities for Regional Execution Teams and Global Functions.
• Collaborate with Regional Execution Leaders and Global Functional Leaders to align on priority of initiatives to ensure tangible benefits of PM COE are achieved and recognized.
• Develop, improve, and operationalize critical tools and training of such tools to enable effective use by regional PMs.
• Change Management: Drive organizational change by promoting the adoption of new technologies and processes, providing training and support to users, and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Establish KPI’s and other relevant metrics to measure the effectiveness of business systems and track progress towards strategic goals, providing regular reports and insights to senior leadership.
• Create, nurture, and provide leadership for a global community of Project Managers from across the company to promote Project Management capabilities and careers.
• Support project risk reviews and close-out meetings to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Regional and Functional Leaders on continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor key performance indicators and solicit direct feedback from key stakeholders to ensure progress towards the company’s strategic plans.
• Serve as a critical member of the Company’s Global Execution Executive Leadership Team to influence strategic priorities and initiatives.

• 10+ years of experience in business systems and management
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in technical or business discipline.
• Professional Certifications a plus (PMI, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma).
• Demonstrated experience in leading a large globally-focused Project Management Office with 5+ years of experience leading a PMO.
• High level of emotional intelligence, influencing skills, and communication skills to enable collaboration with a variety of key stakeholders including senior executive stakeholders.
• Seasoned leader with demonstrated track record of coaching executive leaders and driving accomplishments through such leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and to deliver measurable results.
• Ability to effectively create a collaborative, team-oriented environment including mentoring and motivating team members to be accountable.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and create strategies that significantly improve Project Delivery practices that enable the organization to achieve business results.
• Ability to analyze project data, prepare, and present project reports and projections.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including strong problem solving skills, critical thinking, and business analysis skills.

Personal Attributes:

• Resourceful – This job requires a person who is driven by practical results, maximizing both efficiency and returns for their investments of time, talent, energy, and resource
• Instinctive – This job requires a person who is driven by using past experiences and intuition and seeks specific knowledge when necessary
• Collaborative – This job requires a person who is driven in a supporting role and contributes with little need for individual recognition
• Executive presence and ability to debate and influence decision making
• Analytical thinker, detail-oriented, high-energy level
• Ability to maintain confidential and professional manner

Education:

• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Real Estate, or related field
• MBA preferred

Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world.  We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity. 

The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.

Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially. 

Avison Young is committed to employing the best talent with the most fair and equitable recruitment practices. Apply with us TODAY!