
Senior Project Manager
BUFFALO, NY · HybridJobSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed today
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JLL seeks a Senior Project Manager for a hybrid position involving travel throughout Upstate New York as needed. The role manages client-driven real estate and construction projects from goal-setting and budgeting through design, vendor selection, and execution. The manager serves as the primary client contact, coordinates internal and external teams, monitors schedules and performance, and addresses project risks and financial matters.
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Full job description
JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. Our people at JLL and JLL Technologies are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you've got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you're looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. Job Responsibilities * Note: This is a hybrid position, with travel throughout Upstate, NY as needed. * Develop and execute project specific and client driven goals, schedules, budgets,strategyand detailed assumptions with methodology for accomplishing and/or managing goals and objectives. * Establish and maintain project goals and success criteria that meet both JLL and Client needs. * Build and maintain rapport with client representatives and ensure that the scope of projects and outside business forces affecting the project is fully understood and that specific deliverables are fully understood with performance standards and other relevant criteria. * Coordinate any necessary due diligence efforts on behalf of the internal team, project partners, clients and/or end users, maintaining and delivering all appropriate documentation. * Develop a detailed project budget based on historical and market data and clearly defined set of budget assumptions. * Act as the primary contact with the client throughout the duration of the project. * Guide the client and team through the design implementation process including conceptual, schematic, design development and construction documentation and signoff. * Develop and maintain Master Project Schedules and manage the successful execution of projects so that completion falls within intendedtime-frames. * Prepare various RFP's needed for vendor and contractor services as well as manage the contractor, vendor selection process. * Develop procedures for distribution, receipt, opening, levelling and award of projects and services. * Facilitate initiation of all critical project meetings and coordination exercises with internal staff, keystakeholdersand external users to ensure responsibilities are efficiently, accurately and effectively communicated and understood by all concerned. * Manage project performance against schedules, scheduledmilestonesand critical path items on multiple projects. * Manage vendor and project team performance to ensure compliance with contractual requirements, all regulating entities and client expectations. * Identify,manageand mitigate areas of concern regarding potential liabilities and risk (fee, our reputation, errors and omissions, etc.) to Management Committee and Region Manager. * Contribute where needed and/or requested by JLL Management in the refinement of best practices of standards of excellence within JLL. * Ensurethat the Director of Project Management is fully and accurately informed of all project, internal and client issues affecting the perception of the local, national and global reputation of the firm. * Ensure that all accounts receivables are maintained at a level not to exceed planned working capital charge as set by corporate finance, the project team and/or the Regional Operations Manager. * Any and all other duties and tasks assigned.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities * At least 7 years of practical experience on corporate real estate management or on the construction management. * Communicate succinctly. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients. * High levels of customer service. Ability to serve multiple clients at any given time, deliver on milestones and create a positive impression
How this job compares
Set against the 15,222 open Project Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$102–163K/yr621 salary ranges
- New York median$24–29/hr52 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 924 open Project Management jobs in New York and 15,222 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Project Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (12,191 postings).
- Education
- 6,365 of the 15,222 open Project Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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