Our Opportunity
GPJ is hiring a Housing Project Manager to join our growing team!
This role is hybrid, requiring you to report on-site to one of the following office locations a minimum of 2 days/week: San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Austin.
Your Role
As the Housing Project Manager, you are responsible for developing and executing Housing program operations from concept to final reconciliation. As the client’s primary contact for housing and contract related matters, you will have your finger on the pulse of everything housing. This role requires you to develop strong relationships within the hotel partners for the program and have an understanding of housing contracts and addendums business terms.
You will be required to provide 360 degree room block management to maximize selling the contracted blocks. Your goal is to minimize attrition or alert when hotel blocks sell out, providing a strategy to book up to arrival. You begin with presenting a comprehensive plan, with room block breakdown, to configure the booking platform and oversee the complete attendee experience from launch - until cut off date. You ensure the hotels book all the reservations accurately.
You will provide client and stakeholders reporting dashboard, post-program reports, commission collection and may need to negotiate and mitigate attrition.
Your Skills
- You love the details and figuring out puzzles.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills,
- Collaborative mindset to work with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Highly proficient navigating web based applications to configure and manage housing programs efficiently.
Your Impact
Our attendees booking a hotel reservation is not transactional, we strive to make it well thought out within the complete event journey.
Our Housing Project Managers are experts who demystify the complex world of housing for our clients and teams.
Your Experience
Experience & Education
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in event management, hospitality (Group Reservations ideally) or a related field.
- Proven track record in managing hotel room blocks for large-scale events is highly desirable.
- Experience with hotel booking systems and event management software preferred.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.
Travel & Mobility
- Some travel (site visits) may be needed and on-location support is typically required.
Your Competencies
Deliver: Produce with excellence, in all your areas you touch directly or indirectly, for the client, the project you are assigned, and the GPJ team.
Communication: Able to relate ideas to others in many forms (email, phone, in person) and ensure that all who need to be informed are kept in the loop, making sure no detail is left out. Advocate and educate for the housing management services and practice.
Solution Oriented: With tight project management practices using GPJWay, focus on the desired outcome and be clear as reaching key milestones such as (but not limited to (cut off dates, block release/s, commission agreements) and communicate those in weekly client/team meetings.
Versatile: Action oriented and approach work with a “can do” attitude. Willing to understand client contracts, procurement requirements and supplier code of conduct, scope and work with the client, in relation to housing and interacting with the various properties, and when necessary adapt to any given client.
Salary Range: $65k+
Salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience, skills, and location.
Who We Are
GPJ is the world leader in experiential marketing. Our 29 global offices are filled with fearless people dreaming up ideas that are transforming industries and bringing the most respected brands to life in powerfully, exciting ways. We are a part of the Project Worldwide family. An independent, employee-owned global network of complementary, wholly owned agencies.
You read that “employee-owned” part, right? You heard us correctly. You work hard, she works hard, we all work hard… we all succeed and reap the rewards. We have an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – providing our employees with an ownership interest. We thought you would want to know that. In fact, there is a lot more you would want to know about us, like our FTO policy (no more “accruing” time off), our employer matching 401(k) plan (no vesting period), our “no employee contribution” healthcare option. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here, let’s talk about this exciting opportunity first and we can fill you in on our perks & benefits later.
GPJ is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected class. In addition to federal law requirements, GPJ complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. GPJ expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on any protected class.
POTENTIAL SCAM ALERT
We have recently become aware that individuals not associated with George P. Johnson, or its parent company, Project Worldwide, Inc., have fraudulently used our name – and the names of some of our employees – to solicit applications for fake jobs, to conduct fake job interviews and to make fake job offers.
Any request to schedule an interview and any offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of George P. Johnson with an email address “@gpj.com”.
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If you have provided personal information in connection with a fake job offer or interview and you are concerned, we suggest that you contact local law enforcement authorities. We take these activities very seriously, and are working with law enforcement to shut down this fraudulent activity.
