[Hiring] Project Manager @LAZ Parking

Role Description

The Project Management Office (PMO) supports projects across every department at LAZ, including Operations, Finance, Technology, HR, Client Services, and newly acquired or partner businesses. The Project Manager leads cross-functional teams, coordinates internal and external partners, and keeps projects moving toward organizational goals.

The PMO works as both a project lead and a consulting partner. Depending on the project, this role may run a project end to end or help a department plan and run their own work using PMO tools and resources. The right person for this role will be able to adapt to the needs of the business or project in an agile way, always identifying and executing to add value and support.

Principal Duties

• Planning and delivery
  • Build short- and long-term project plans with clear milestones, owners, and deadlines
  • Track progress against the plan and keep timelines and quality on track
  • Adjust schedules, scope, and targets as business needs, priorities, or funding change
  • Coordinate go-live readiness, including user acceptance testing (UAT), data validation, training, pilot rollouts, and handoff to operational owners
  • Close out projects by confirming ownership transfer, documenting lessons learned, and capturing project outcomes
• Team and partner leadership
  • Lead cross-departmental teams, making roles, responsibilities, and goals clear for everyone involved
  • Assign and track action items with owners across departments, vendors, and partners
  • Serve as the main point of contact when multiple teams or departments share a project so everyone stays aligned
  • Manage vendor and partner relationships through implementation, including kickoffs, recurring status calls, contract and timeline coordination, and follow-up on open items
  • Support the integration of acquired or partner businesses onto LAZ systems and processes
  • Lay out options and tradeoffs so sponsors and stakeholders can make timely decisions
• Communication and reporting
  • Facilitate recurring project meetings and send timely recaps with decisions, action items, owners, and due dates
  • Keep stakeholders updated so the project stays aligned with their goals
  • Build and maintain Monday.com boards and dashboards, project reports, and all project communications
  • Contribute to portfolio-level reporting, including the monthly PMO Executive Summary
• PMO intake and continuous improvement
  • Support the PMO intake and discovery process by helping requesters through intake, connecting them with the right teams, and helping build business cases
  • Contribute to PMO resources such as playbooks, SOPs, templates, SharePoint content, newsletters, and feedback surveys
  • Help departments plan and run their own projects using PMO tools and best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, management, or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience
• PMP or CAPM certification preferred

Requirements

• 5+ years of project management experience, ideally in a PMO or multi-department setting
• Experience leading software or system implementations with outside vendors
• Experience with business integrations, operational transitions, or process changes across multiple departments is a plus

Skills

• Works independently and makes timely calls on day-to-day project matters
• Leads cross-functional teams without direct authority, including resolving conflicts and negotiating effectively
• Manages vendor and partner relationships, keeping outside teams accountable to timelines and deliverables
• Prioritizes tasks, manages time, and handles multiple projects across different departments at once
• Works comfortably with people at every level of the organization, from frontline teams to executives
• Strong written communication, including clear meeting recaps, status updates, and executive summaries
• Brings a sense of urgency and follow-through
• Adapts quickly to changing project requirements and priorities
• Supports change management and business readiness so new tools and processes actually get adopted
• Familiar with project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Loop), Jira, Trello, Asana, or GitHub
• Comfortable working through system integrations and implementations with IT, development teams, and vendors, and willing to learn technical concepts as needed
• Translates between technical and non-technical stakeholders so everyone has a shared understanding of project requirements

FLSA Status

Exempt

Equal Opportunity Employer

LAZ Parking is an equal opportunity employer. In all our employment practices, including hiring, we are committed to equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, or any other basis of discrimination prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal law. This employer participates in E-Verify.