Monarch Landscape Companies, the fastest growing West Coast commercial landscape company is offering an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager to advance their career. The Project Manager will manage client interaction and expectations surrounding long term planning and high-level value-added services.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for client retention, annual increases, and enhancement penetration
- Serve as point-of-contact for high level site and project issues to expeditiously and proactively identify, address, and resolve client needs
- Act as liaison between operations and client, ensuring clarity in communication and expectations
- Conduct walk-throughs with client and other company representatives as appropriate
- Evaluate accounts and develop an effective and on-going landscape asset management plan
- Build a strong knowledge base of each clientâs business, organization, and objectives
- Collaborate with Area Managers to maintain a holistic understanding of client sites
- Stay up-to-date on day-to-day site operations and issues to identify trends in need of comprehensive solutions
- Create, manage, and control scope of work, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget
- Manage all project communication between internal and external clients
- Analyze and understand job cost reports and budget variances related to contract projects
- Prepare monthly forecast of labor and materials, and accurate job costing of work orders
- Meet or exceed annual sales goals
- Gather, calculate and compile take off data for use in bid estimates
- Accurately prepare bids and landscape designs & renderings, by utilizing field collected data and computer programs, to present to client
- Visit jobs in progress to relate actual estimate; review questions or problems that may arise
- Add and update project information in CRM software daily
- Utilize CRM reports to keep estimate priorities and workload organized
- Manage billing process, including communicating change orders, lien releases, progress billing, etc.
- Develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with vendors and subcontractors, insuring accountability and quality for price
- Ensure safety on every project by enforcing safety training and meetings,as well as consistently monitor job sites for potential safety hazards
- Constantly promote and encourage adherence to company policies and best practices
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This position has supervisory responsibilities
Education
- Bachelorâs degree in Landscape Architecture or Horticulture,Construction/Project Management, or related field; or at least 5 years related work experience
- At least 5 years of experience in the commercial landscape industry
- Extensive knowledge of regional plant life
Field Experience
- Minimum 3 years of verifiable field experience with project estimating or design-build work
- Strong estimation background, with working knowledge of construction/installation & irrigation
- Familiar with commercial landscape equipment and their functions
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- High aptitude for driving sales
- Strong customer service skills, with internal and external clients
- Effective oral and written communication
- Advanced knowledge of scheduling, budgeting, document management,and cost forecasting
- Ability to read and interpret constructions plans/drawings
- Experience working the commercial property managers, vendors,consultants and architects a plus
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and perform well under deadlines
- Organizational skills
- Flexibility
- Advanced presentation skills
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of SalesForce, Microsoft OfficeSuite, and Project Management Software
- Intermediate to advanced experience using design software, including
- Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, and ProLandscape
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