MAC (Moves, Adds, Changes) Team Lead
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- Ottawa, ON
- $61,850-77,313 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supervises a team of individual contributors.
- Establishes work schedules and priorities. Assigns, prioritizes and monitors work progress and completion to ensure adherence to timeliness, quality standards and all other related requirements.
- Monitoring and providing performance feedback, evaluating performance and assisting with performance reviews.
- Hiring & retention - contributes the hiring process and retention of team members.
- Plans and delivers facility moves, adds, or changes as well as facility planning projects.
- Researches and liaises with vendors to obtain quotes. Provides recommendations on preferred vendor. Provides comments to Client regarding vendors based on their performance.
- Prepares cost estimates for assigned projects. Provide value-added solutions by suggesting cost-beneficial alternatives
- Determines and prepares resource requirements. Assigns, prioritizes and monitors work progress of vendors, installers and trades.
- Creates schedules and monitors progress against timelines.
- Develops and maintains effective relationships with vendors. Monitors work progress to ensure completion.
- Ensures assigned projects are delivered on-time, within scope, budget and requirements and complies with all regulatory, environmental, health and safety requirements.
- Develops and maintains effective relationships with clients. Resolves issues, manages client expectations, and ensures client satisfaction and addresses any client escalations.
- Liaise with Client representatives to understand project requirements. Propose alternate solutions when requirements can not be executed as requested.
- Create CAD layouts and verify CAD layouts provided by others, obtain client approval and issue to vendors for quoting.
- Review Installation plans and quotes provided by vendor, ensuring all requirements were captured and request adjustments as needed.
- Perform site verifications.
- Maintain Inventory list, ensure enough product is available for ad hoc requests, and keep list up to date
- Liaises with movers, prepare move packages and furniture tagging as required.
- Incorporates sustainable practices, where practical, into MAC delivery, in accordance with BGIS processes.
- Coordinate with Director Portfolio Services as required for Monthly Reports and resourcing.
- Move/Repair/Adjust furniture within capabilities.
- Collect and submit security clearance forms for MAC vendors required to complete work onsite. Monitor and ensure enough vendors available to completes volume of requests
- Manage and prioritize WO's and communicate with requestors to ensure timelines are met.
- Work with Senior Partners to improve processes and ensure best practices are achieved.
- Full involvement with recruiting talent.
- Provides mentoring, coaching and guidance to all team members.
- Objectively recommends compensation adjustments.
- Manages all aspects of performance.
- Supervises, mentors and coaches a team of individual contributors.
- Responsible for all aspects of performance management - monitoring, evaluating and providing performance feedback, conducting performance reviews, developing performance improvement plans and monitoring progress.
- Contributes to recruiting new talent and retention of team members
- Objectively recommends compensation adjustments.
- Participates in new team member onboarding to ensure a positive and consistent experience for new team members and consistency of training and onboarding to processes, tools and other materials.
- Strives for 100% employee engagement and satisfaction through effective leadership, communication, administration and provision support including mentoring and team member development activities for direct reports.
- Plans and delivers facility moves, adds or change projects as well as facility planning projects, including Furniture Installation and Sustainable Furniture & Office decommissioning projects.
- Develops a strategy for each project, taking into consideration the client's requirements and accounts deliverables.
- Works cross-functionally with other internal team members, service lines, project groups and operation groups to plan, manage and deliver projects.
- Coordinates with the client and third-party vendors for furniture delivery, installation and remediation of any furniture deficiencies.
- Develops, shares and updates the project schedule taking into consideration budget, required timeline and any risks to projects.
- Leads team calls/and provides status updates to Leadership.
- Evaluates, plans and manages all Health & Safety risks and requirements, working with the BGIS Health & Safety team and other internal groups as required.
- Ensures all projects are delivered on time, within scope, budget and requirements and complies with all regulatory, environmental, health and safety requirements.
- Provides thought leadership in the area of moves, adds and changes, furniture installation.
- Perform other duties, as assigned
- Develops strong internal relationships with other team members, service lines, project groups and operation groups to plan, manage and deliver projects.
- Maintains an effective positive working relationship with all clients, concerned parties and internal teams on each project to maintain client objectives - One BGIS.
- Effectively and pro-actively communicates with concerned parties, such as Clients, contractors and industry bodies (as required) to ensure Client satisfaction and BGIS's success
- Maintains a good relationship with all third-party contractors.
- Completes project milestone billing documents and ensures consistency throughout projects.
- Contributes to the development and upkeep of work instructions and processes with the Leadership team and others as required.
- Completes project status reporting and monthly financial reporting activities for all assigned projects.
- Participates in regular meetings with the MAC team to drive alignment and consistency in the service delivery of MAC projects.
- Communicates changes and updates to strategies and processes as required.
- Provides updates to the Leadership on project impacts and opportunities.
- Participates in project kick off meetings, both internal and external as required.
- Communicates with all project concerned parties regularly
- Maintains effective filing structure and ensures all documentation for each project is correctly filed and audit ready.
- Responsible for ensuring adherence with all financial and procurement policies and procedures
- Monitoring contractor Purchase Order's (PO's) and ensuring that they align with the approved budget and quote.
- Keeps track of all invoices and cross checks that work billed for aligns with work quoted.
- Works collaboratively with the Leadership team and other internal concerned parties to develop, maintain and improve upon the MAC service delivery line.
- Develop and maintain measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
- Partakes in the development and maintenance of all processes, tools and documentation for MAC such as developing playbooks for relocation, furniture installation, etc.
- Curates a selection of successful projects to showcase for presentation purposes.
- Provides guidance and oversight for developing marketing materials to use for procuring new business.
- Ensures a positive client and occupant experience on all MAC projects to drive repeat business and differentiate BGIS as the logical choice for service delivery.
- Develop and maintains a business development strategy including identifying new contacts and opportunities to be pursued.
- Assists with business development opportunities such as scope definition, fee and proposal development.
- Excellent communication skills. (3 to 5 years of job-related experience in moves, add, change, furniture installation, decommissioning and facility planning projects.)
- Effective leadership skills and management skills. (Experience in customer service and client facing activities)
- Skilled in strategic thinking. (Experience managing customer relationships)
- 3+ years of furniture systems knowledge
- Advanced project coordination and organizations skills.
- 3+ years AutoCAD experience
- Has excellent relationship building and relationship management skills.
- Advanced ability to deliver non-technical projects such as moves, adds and change projects according to requirements, on time and within budget.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Business development skills including solution development, proposal writing, pricing of services
- Travel to sites will be required, driver's license a bonus.