Specialist: Project Management Office

About the job

Zurich-Wiedikon│80-100% │by arrangement

Do you coordinate projects while keeping the big picture in mind?

As a Specialist in the Project Management Office, you ensure that many projects become a well-managed portfolio. You create transparency and clarity, set priorities, and bring people, information, and decisions together. In doing so, you support project managers, programme management, and leadership committees, provide well-founded decision-making bases, and actively develop our standards, methods, and processes in project management.

Your tasks

• You build up the PMO in close collaboration with programme management, operate it, and continuously develop it further.
• You manage the project portfolio, create transparency about status, priorities, resources, and dependencies, and maintain an overall view.
• You establish uniform standards, methods, processes, and tools and ensure their quality and application.
• You support project managers in planning, controlling, and implementing their projects and promote consistent project work.
• You prepare status reports, analyses, key figures, and decision-making bases for management and leadership committees.
• You coordinate the interfaces between projects, organisational units, and leadership committees, identify risks and need for action early, and drive the professionalisation of project management forward.

Your profile

• You have solid experience in project management, ideally with several years of experience in the real estate sector, and possess strong organisational talent.
• You are experienced in managing demanding projects, keep an overview even with several parallel initiatives, and confidently set the right priorities.
• You are IT-savvy and familiar with modern project management methods, agile working methods, and change management.
• You think in a networked and conceptual way, quickly grasp complex issues, and develop pragmatic, sustainable solutions.
• You enjoy further developing processes, standards, and structures, create transparency, and prepare well-founded decision-making bases tailored to the target audience.
• You communicate convincingly, appear confident to different stakeholders and management levels, and know how to bring different perspectives together into viable solutions.

Your prospects

The Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zürich (ABZ) is the largest housing cooperative in Switzerland and manages over 5200 apartments. The non-profit organisation stands for affordable housing, social sustainability, pioneering architecture, and community-promoting forms of living.

5 weeks holiday, 6 weeks from age 50. Public holidays of the city of Zurich apply. On Good Friday, Ascension Day, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve, work ends at midday. In addition, ABZ supports various working time models so that you can optimally balance your professional and private life.

Team building Fun in the team is just as valuable as exciting tasks in everyday work. That is why we regularly meet for special events such as staff outings, Christmas dinners, information events, aperitifs, and sporting activities.

Contribution to training costs It is important to us that our employees continue to develop. For this purpose, ABZ provides 2 percent of the gross wage sum as a training budget. ABZ’s cost contribution ranges from 25 to 100 percent depending on the training.

High participation in social benefits ABZ pays 65 percent of the pension fund contributions. In addition, it covers the premiums for daily sickness and accident insurance. In case of accidents, you receive a single room in the private ward and have free choice of doctor in Switzerland and abroad.

Employee counselling In difficult life situations, our employees can seek help. You and your family members can receive anonymous and free advice from Lyra Switzerland on legal, emotional, and practical life issues.

Public transport contribution You receive the BonusPass at a reduced price or the half-fare travelcard free of charge. Both the head office and our branches are located in the city of Zurich and are easily accessible by public transport.

If you have questions about the position, Marco Stella, Managing Director, will be happy to answer them at 044 455 57 20. Katharina Schär looks forward to receiving your electronic application.