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**Job Summary**:
The Program Manager (PM) will be embedded with one of Pinkerton's enterprise clients. In this role, the PM oversees all aspects of the global safety and security project portfolio including but not limited to the planning, scope, timelines, stakeholder communication, execution, lessons learned, best practices, and management of project team members.
**Essential Functions**:
- Represent Pinkerton's core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
- Oversee the client's global safety and security project portfolio.
- Plan, execute, and monitor projects from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to project goals, objectives, and timelines;
- Develop detailed project plans, including project scope, goals, deliverables, timelines, resource allocation, and budget estimates.
- Monitor project progress, track key milestones, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders, senior management, and leadership.
- Ensure adherence to project management methodologies, standards, and processes, and seek continuous opportunities for improvement.
- Supports management through project planning and coordination to meet commitments on time and within resource limitations;
- Coordinate client and management approval and assist with the determination of requirements, priorities, and progress statuses.
- Conduct comprehensive project reviews and identify lessons learned and best practices for future projects.
- Manage a team of project managers and coordinators.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among project stakeholders and ensure alignment and management of expectations.
- Foster strong cross functional partnerships and able to effectively prioritize workload demands to meet project deadlines.
- Design, develop, proof and edit communications, best practice documents, resource tools, and project coordination documents.
- Oversee and organize departmental information and project artifacts.
- Manage and execute departmental communication management strategies and support internal business reporting frameworks.
- All other duties, as assigned.
**Education, Experience, and Certifications**:
**Competencies**:
- Knowledgeable in security practices and strong program development and management experience.
- Serve as a positive team member and leader.
- Security training experience.
- Able to follow operation plans and manage trip requirements.
- Good judgment and decision-making ability during stressful or emergency situations.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Customer focused and attentive to detail.
- Strong project management skills.
- Computer skills: Microsoft Office.
- Flexible; able to work independently or within a team environment.
**Working Conditions**:
With or without reasonable accommodation, requires the physical and mental capacity to effectively perform all essential functions;
- Exposure to sensitive and confidential information.
- Maintain composure in dealing with authorities, executives, clients, staff, and the public occasionally under conditions of urgency and in pressure situations.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
- Regular computer usage.
- Occasional reaching and lifting of small objects and operating office equipment.
- Ability to adjust focus between close and distance vision.
- Frequent sitting.
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