{"id":1304016,"url":"https://alion.io/job/microsoft-construction-project-management-sr-program-manager","title":"Construction, Project Management & Sr. Program Manager","company":{"id":18,"name":"Microsoft","domain":"microsoft.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/microsoft","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":116900,"max":203600,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":203600},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Power BI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T23:13:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T23:05:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":12,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":12},"description":"OverviewGlobal Workplace Services (GWS) plans, delivers, and operates Microsoft's global real estate portfolio of approximately 40 million square feet (SF) across an outsourced, multi-region delivery model. This role provides the global operating backbone for construction project delivery by establishing the standards, playbooks, frameworks, and analytics that enable consistent execution across Microsoft's global capital portfolio, and by leading the Program Management Office (PgMO).\nAs capital delivery scales across regions, GWS needs common frameworks for how projects are planned, budgeted, scheduled, and de-risked. The Senior Program Manager authors the frameworks that regional PM leads and Tier 1 suppliers apply in-region, balancing global consistency with the flexibility that regional markets, contract models, and permitting environments require.\nThe role is global in remit, operating across AMERICAS, ASIA, EMEAL and LATAM. It requires sustained engagement across multiple time zones with regional PM leads, Tier 1 partners, and regional leadership.\nThe role also maintains a structured feedback loop with the regional PM leads, capturing lessons learned from key projects and translating them back into refreshed benchmarks, updated playbooks, and improved standards so the global framework evolves with real delivery experience. Regional leadership retains accountability for in-region project execution and delivery decisions.\nResponsibilities\nStandards and Playbooks\nAuthor and maintain global construction delivery standards, stage-gate playbooks, process flows, and templates used by regional PM teams and Tier 1 suppliers across the full project lifecycle.\nDefine the minimum global requirements at each stage gate, from initiation and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout, while allowing documented flexibility for regional market differences.\nEstablish standard deliverable definitions, RACI, and documentation requirements so projects are governed consistently regardless of region or delivery partner.\nDrive adoption of and compliance with the standards through onboarding, training, and periodic reviews with regional PM leads and Tier 1 partners.\nCost Benchmarking and Budget Structures\nEstablish a common cost taxonomy and standardized budget structures, including work breakdown, cost codes, and consistent allowance and contingency definitions applied across all regions.\nDefine the global cost benchmarking methodology, including normalization for market, currency, scope, and escalation, so cost performance is genuinely comparable across regions.\nMaintain benchmark datasets by project and asset type and refresh them from completed project actuals so estimates and validation reflect current delivery experience.\nPartner with Capital Planning and Real Estate & Facilities Finance (REFFIN) so budget structures and benchmarks inform capital planning, funding requests, and estimate validation.\nSchedule and Risk Frameworks\nDefine standard schedule structures, milestone definitions, and duration benchmarks by project type so schedule performance is measurable and comparable across the portfolio.\nEstablish the global risk management framework, covering risk taxonomy, assessment criteria, contingency logic, escalation thresholds, and mitigation reporting.\nSet the schedule and risk reporting requirements for Tier 1 suppliers, including baseline discipline, change control, and early-warning indicators.\nDefine and report program performance measures such as schedule adherence, cost variance, change-order rates, and forecast accuracy.\nPgMO Center of Excellence\nLead the GWS Program Management Office as the center of excellence for construction delivery standards, tools, and capability building.\nPartner with regional PM leads, Capital Planning, Sourcing, and Tier 1 suppliers to socialize standards and secure consistent application in-region.\nRun a structured lessons-learned loop from key projects and translate findings into refreshed benchmarks, updated playbooks, and improved standards.\nLead the rhythm of business for the global PM community, including portfolio reviews, scorecards, escalation management, and best-practice sharing.\nDefine the data, tooling, and dashboard requirements that make cost, schedule, and risk performance visible at portfolio level and support continuous improvement of the framework.\nTeam Leadership and PgMO Resource Management\nOperate as an individual contributor, leading through influence and through vendor and supplier resources as PgMO Lead.\nDirect and prioritize the work of the vendor-delivered PgMO team, currently five resources delivered through a professional-services partner, and of the Tier 1 PgMO leads, setting deliverables, quality standards, and delivery cadence.\nOwn onboarding, capability development, performance feedback, and the rhythm of business, including 1:1s and team cadence, for the vendor PgMO team, escalating commercial and contractual performance matters to Supplier Governance.\nChair the PgMO rhythm of business, including weekly platform updates, the monthly financial review, quarterly Tier 1 supplier QBRs, and the annual Global Partnership Forum.\nPlatform Budget, Forecast and PO Management\nOwn the annual PM Platform budget submission and quarterly forecast, including validation of SOW costs, variance analysis, and consolidation of the PM & PgMO Platforms forecast.\nManage annual purchase order and contract submissions, monthly accruals, and supplier invoice validation.\nReview month-end close activities and monthly spend-versus-budget and forecast variance partnering with Real Estate & Facilities Finance (REFFIN).\nWhen necessary partner with Capital Planning and Finance on capital approvals and project and Capital ID posting.\nContract and SOW Ownership\nOwn the PM scope of the Global PgMO Master Statement of Work, including renewals, extensions, scope changes, updated RACI, and scorecards.\nDevelop and maintain Tier 1 PM global statements of work, child SOWs, and amendments in partnership with CELA and Procurement.\nDefine PM and PgMO KPIs and scorecards, consolidate supplier performance reporting, and feed it into the global QBR cycle.\nSupport RFP and RFS pipeline planning and contract extensions for PM services.\nSupplier Governance retains ownership of supplier performance conversations, commercial risk, and contract compliance; this role provides the PM scope, deliverable definitions, and performance standards.\nTools, Platforms and Automation\nOwn the GWS Platforms HUB, including content accuracy, Tier 1 communications, and onboarding and training materials.\nOwn the PM Playbook, including content, update cadence, the stakeholder feedback loop, and change communications.\nOwn the Cost Model Report as the cost benchmarking decision engine, covering data validation, project inclusion, PER budget addition, guidance and commentary, and expansion to external benchmarking and new data sets.\nOwn the Scheduling Analytics tool and scheduling standards, the PER workbook and its Phase 2 automation, and the Lessons Learned process and tool, each with the relevant Business Data, Finance, or Transaction Management counterpart.\nIdentify and sponsor AI-assisted automation across various tools Global Construction Project Management Platform.\nStakeholder Engagement and Partnership\nPartner with Development Model Team, Regional PM leads and regional leadership across AMERICAS, ASIA, EMEA, and LATAM on adoption of the global standards, escalations, and lessons learned.\nEngage Tier 1 PM suppliers and the PgMO delivery partner on deliverables, performance standards, and delivery cadence.\nWork with Platforms Supplier Management and CELA on contract templates, must-have clauses, FIDIC and JCT localization, and legal process guidance.\nWork with Finance and Capital Planning on the PER, budget submissions, capital approvals, and REFFIN reporting, where applicable.\nPartner with Procurement and Sourcing on supplier strategy, RFP templates, and sourcing tooling.\nPartner with MS Digital on global project scope and requirements, and with GWS Technology and Business Data on tools, data, and reporting.\nEngage Security, Sustainability, and Accessibility, and coordinate with the peer platform leads for Compliance, Supplier Governance, and IFM & Dining so platform ownership is not duplicated.\nQualifications\nRequired / Minimum Qualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 10+ years of experience in construction project or program management, capital project delivery, or related work, OR equivalent experience.\nAdditional or Preferred Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in a related field AND 8+ years of relevant experience, including direct experience delivering capital construction projects.\nDemonstrated experience defining or improving standards, playbooks, or operating models in a construction, real estate, facilities, or comparable enterprise-operations context.\nExperience establishing cost, schedule, or risk frameworks and translating delivery data into standards and decisions for senior stakeholders.\nExperience delivering capital construction projects across multiple regions within an outsourced service-delivery (Tier 1) model.\nExperience managing vendor or supplier delivery teams and third-party statements of work, including deliverable definition and performance standards.\nExperience building cost taxonomies, standardized budget structures, or benchmarking methodologies for a global capital portfolio.\nExperience leading a PMO or center of excellence, including standards governance and lessons-learned programs.\nProficiency interpreting project and portfolio data (for example, Power BI) and setting metric and reporting standards; familiarity with construction contract and delivery models such as GMP, design-build, FIDIC, and JCT.\nProfessional credentials such as PMP, CCM, RICS, or LEED; experience applying AI-assisted tools to estimating, scheduling, or reporting automation.\nExperience owning a platform budget, forecast, and purchase order cycle, including accruals and supplier invoice validation.\nExperience working across global time zones with regional teams and suppliers; Spanish language skills are advantageous for LATAM and Tier 1 engagement.\nSkills\nConstruction Project Management\nCapital Project Delivery\nProgram Management\nCost Estimating & Benchmarking\nBudget Management\nScheduling & Planning\nRisk Management\nProcess Design & Operational Excellence\nGovernance Methodology & Practices\nSupplier & Vendor Management\nChange Management\nContinuous Improvement\nData Visualization & Business Intelligence\nStakeholder Management\nWritten & Oral Communication\nVendor/Supplier Resource Management\nContract & SOW Management\nBudget & Forecast Management\nAI & Automation Enablement\nCross-Region Collaboration\nConstruction Project Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $148,400 - $222,600 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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