About the Role:
We are seeking a Client Facing Project Manager with experience directly supporting corporate clients, to join our virtual global team. Working in close collaboration with colleagues, you will provide high-touch, high-quality service to our large, global clients and client-facing teams. The role requires direct client interaction; strong partnership with Potential Project partners, account leads, and design and delivery teams; and responsibility and ownership for project management and coordination of client-facing projects and programs.
You are able to commit to 30 - 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, and can work in European time zones. A dedicated contemplative practice is an important requirement to fit our organizational culture. We walk our own talk.
Partnering with internal client sponsors, leads, and broader client engagement teams to coordinate delivery of programs and services, including:
- Support of leadership design and facilitation teams to successfully create and deliver leadership and organizational development programs for large global organizations.
- Administrative elements (including sales and financial processes) to support client relationship and internal business functions.
Coordinating and communicating with Clients on elements including:
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Scheduling program delivery and support
- Reviewing and updating programmatic elements (decks, summary sheets, program invites, etc.)
- Creating proposals and contracts to build and grow client relationships
- Providing accurate reporting to describe the impact and benefit of Potential Project programs
- Providing event consultation and management for executive retreat experiences
Client-facing project management of leadership development design and delivery projects, including:
- Creating and project managing to a clear scope of work
- Project scheduling and planning
- Communication planning, including scheduling of internal and external meetings
- Progress reporting and risk assessment
- Coordination and follow-up with internal and external parties for flawless execution
Communicating and partnering with other client-facing teams to ensure best practices and processes are used in support of projects and programs
- 3 to 5 years of client-facing project management experience, including event management; coordination of internal and external teams for small-to-mid scale projects from planning through implementation
- 3 to 5 years of experience in client relationship, including building strong working relationships, creative problem-solving, understanding and articulating client needs, and growing the account through up-selling or cross-selling
- Bachelor’s degree; Advanced degree preferred
- Exceptional time and project management skills with ability to manage multiple work-streams with operational discipline.
- Flexible, service-oriented attitude with a strong sense of ownership and a team-player mind-set
- A purpose driven spirit, aligned with our mission of contributing to a more peaceful, kinder world
- Ability to thrive working independently in a virtual, global organization
- An excellent level of English, both spoken and written
- Being an important and influential part of a highly purpose driven, rapidly growing, international organization passionate about creating a more human world of work by harnessing people’s full potential of their mind
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Opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, mindful, collegial work context with amazing colleagues from all over the world
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Opportunity to go on meditation retreats and balance professional development with inner development
- Opportunity to work from home
At Potential Project, our purpose is to create a more human world of work through harnessing the full potential of the mind. In this new world of work, people are focused, calm and resilient, even happy at work. There is time for connection and compassion for one another, even on the busiest days. This new world begins inside, in the mind.
Potential Project is a global research, leadership development and consulting firm that partners with leading organizations to uncover the power of the mind – how it is wired and how to rewire it for new behaviors and different outcomes. Through integrating cutting-edge neuroscience, evidence-based research and contemplative practices from the wisdom traditions, we have helped over 375,000 people in 600+ companies to enhance performance, resilience and creativity and to develop leaders who are more agile, compassionate and courageous.
We are present in 28 countries with a network of 150+ consultants and facilitators, and we serve hundreds of forward-thinking companies like McKinsey, IKEA, Unilever, Cisco, LEGO and Microsoft.
If you are interested, please submit your CV and a motivation letter by clicking on the "Apply" button.
Your contact person for this recruitment is Michaela Kress.
Potential Project is a people-centered company. It is what we teach and what we live. We insist on our team having a truly human experience of their work. Potential Project has committed itself to inclusion, respect for difference, and fairness, and guarantees the same rights to all its team members to ensure the fullest degree of success for each individual and for the organization.
