Remote Innovation Project Manager

Position Title:

REMOTE INNOVATION PROJECT MANAGER

Pay Grade: 16

Salary: $100,000 - $130,000

ESFM is the corporate facilities management (FM) division of Compass Group USA, a Gold-level Corporate Sustaining Partner of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and a Platinum Corporate Member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).

ESFM self-performs 80% of all FM services provided to clients. Our portfolio of solution categories includes Facilities Maintenance & Engineering, ESG Programming, Laboratory Support Services, Janitorial & Industrial Cleaning, Landscaping & Grounds Management, Workplace Solutions and Managed Services.

This self-performance model creates a consistent hospitality experience for clients, resulting in higher engagement and productivity from their employees. ESFM’s clients include many household names from the life sciences, technology, oil & gas and manufacturing markets.

This position is eligible for an Employee Referral Bonus! If you know someone that is qualified for this role, please use the ‘job search’ in People Hub to refer your referral and email them a link to apply. Your referral will be able to apply by clicking the link in the email. You can check the status through your profile, accessible via Careers in People Hub, by clicking on ‘referral tracking.’

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Innovation Project Manager, reporting into the Program Manager of Operations & Transformation, offers a unique opportunity to manage impactful projects in a fortune one hundred company. This role will continuously work with the client, regional leadership team, and site managers to define project goals, evaluate scope, and anticipate client needs serving as the key driver of operational efficiencies, innovative technology, and project management.

A successful candidate will be tasked with owning the complete life cycle of the projects and driving necessary change throughout. The Operations Project Manager will coordinate activities across North America specifically for our contracted scope of services such as janitorial, mail, shipping and receiving, maintenance, security, and other vendor contracts.

• Creative/Strategic project management resource responsible for leading operational enhancements, implementation of innovative technology, and cost savings initiatives
• Responsible for the sourcing, development and implementation of industry leading innovations and strategic operational initiatives within Client’s business.
  • This includes projects in operational programs such as: account management, innovative technology, janitorial services, mail/shipping/receiving services, maintenance, and vendor management.
  • Maintain a robust pipeline of initiatives to enhance or improve operations.
• Regular reporting of innovation and process improvement to both Compass internal stakeholders and Client leadership
• Define innovation, technology, or operational enhancement project scope, goals, ROI, and deliverables in collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders, including key clients, senior executives, sponsors, sector and division leads, and field operations
• Engage and collaborate with peer managers and client leads to drive workforce engagement for existing and new innovations to ensure Compass strategy and implementation is aligned with client goals.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams on project reporting, meeting frequencies, and providing client ready updates.
• Chai all internal or external innovation meetings and own development of the innovative strategy through all stages of the project
• Identify opportunities for operational improvement and make recommendations for change; identify flaws in logic or assumption errors
• Build and manage (directly and indirectly) teams to meet the innovation demands of the portfolio and clients
• Assist the project management of innovation, technology, and our operational improvement implementation
• Create and maintain all documentation pertinent to the project, including but not limited to, status reports, work plans, presentations
• Ability…