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Clear Channel Outdoor · Onsite · Allentown, PA

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Job Summary:

The Program Manager is responsible for the independent leadership, development, and execution of complex, multi-project capital investment programs across the company's airport portfolio. This position provides comprehensive oversight of assigned airport markets and major capital development initiatives, including program planning, design and engineering coordination, capital budgeting and forecasting, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operational turnover.
Serving as the primary project development representative for assigned markets, the Program Manager exercises significant independent judgment in managing multiple concurrent projects, coordinating airport authorities and internal stakeholders, directing external consultants and contractors, and ensuring delivery within approved capital budgets, schedules, contractual obligations, and revenue commitments. The position is accountable for identifying and mitigating program-level risks, maintaining financial and schedule performance, and successfully delivering capital infrastructure investments in complex, operationally active airport environments.

                                                                                                    

Job Responsibilities

  • Independently leads multiple concurrent capital development projects and complex airport programs from initial planning and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational turnover.
  • Assumes primary responsibility for assigned airport markets, coordinating airport authorities, executive stakeholders, internal departments, consultants, contractors, and vendors to ensure successful program delivery.
  • Develops, owns, and manages multimillion-dollar capital investment programs across multiple concurrent projects, including consolidated program budgets, capital forecasts, financial commitments, master schedules, milestones, and risk mitigation plans, maintaining accountability for overall program performance and delivery outcomes.
  • Leads the development and execution of program delivery strategies, including construction phasing, procurement planning, long-lead equipment management, resource coordination, and operational continuity.
  • Directs architectural and engineering coordination, technical submittals, permitting, regulatory approvals, contractor selection, and construction activities in accordance with contractual and airport requirements.
  • Oversees multiple external contractors, consultants, integrators, and installation teams, ensuring compliance with project scope, budget, schedule, safety, quality, and performance requirements.
  • Partners with Sales, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Finance, and Technology to align capital deployment with business objectives, revenue commitments, inventory readiness, and operational requirements.
  • Exercises independent judgment in resolving complex project issues, evaluating scope changes, negotiating solutions, managing program risks, and escalating material financial, contractual, or schedule impacts.
  • Establishes and maintains accurate program-level reporting, including capital forecasts, schedule performance, risk assessments, executive updates, and project documentation within designated construction management systems.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

Education and Certifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred, or equivalent of professional experience, military experience
  • PMP, CCM, or similar professional certification preferred, not required

Work Experience

  • Minimum 7 years of progressive experience managing commercial construction, capital development, engineering, infrastructure, or complex multidisciplinary projects
  • Demonstrated experience serving as the primary accountable leader for complex capital programs, exercising independent judgment and coordinating multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and stakeholders without requiring day-to-day management oversight.
  • Demonstrated experience independently managing multiple concurrent capital projects or complex, multi-phase development programs
  • Experience managing multimillion-dollar capital budgets, forecasts, procurement commitments, contractor costs, and schedule performance
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and stakeholders across multiple locations
  • Strong experience with design development, permitting, procurement, construction administration, commissioning, and turnover

Skills

  • Advanced ability to plan, coordinate, and oversee multiple concurrent projects while managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder requirements.
  • Strong understanding of commercial construction, engineering drawings, building codes, permitting, procurement, and construction processes.
  • Strong ability to manage project budgets, forecasts, capital expenditures, schedules, change management, and project performance.
  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Proficient with construction management and project management platforms such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Primavera P6, or similar systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify project risks, evaluate alternatives, resolve complex issues, and make sound decisions in fast-paced project environments.

Competencies

  • Achievement Orientation: Focusing efforts on meeting challenges and achieving high quality results consistent with the organization goals.
  • Collaborating with Others: Working together with others in a cooperative and supportive manner to achieve shared goals.
  • Ensuring Accountability: Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability, and creating an infrastructure and transparent corporate culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility, urgency and accountability.
  • Fostering Communication: Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and effectively gets message across.
  • Managing Project Execution: Assigning, measuring and controlling resources (budget, people and materials).
  • Planning and Organizing: Reaching goals by making and following plans, setting and sticking to priorities and allocating resources effectively.
  • Project Management: Planning, implementing, monitoring and completing projects, ensuring effective management of scope, resources, time, cost, quality, risk and communications.
  • Vendor Management: Researching and sourcing vendors, negotiating contracts with vendors and developing and maintaining relationships with vendors.

Physical Demands

The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Ability to sit or stand for extended periods.
  • Ability to walk long distances and navigate active airport and construction environments.
  • Ability to climb ladders and/or stairs when required for project inspections.
  • Ability to visually review drawings, plans, equipment, and construction installations.
  • Ability to lift and move items up to 20 pounds.
  • Ability to work in varying environmental and construction site conditions.

Other Requirements

  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time to assigned airport markets for site visits, project meetings, construction oversight, installations, and other business needs.
  • Maintain a regular in-market presence to develop and sustain strong working relationships with airport authorities, clients, contractors, consultants, and other key stakeholders.
  • Ability to travel frequently and on short notice when required to support project execution, resolve issues, or meet with airport partners.
  • Ability to work evenings, overnight hours, or weekends as required to support airport construction and installation activities.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain airport security credentials as required.

                                                                                                     

Location

Allentown, PA: 7450 Tilghman Street, Suite 104, 18106

                                                                                                     

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The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

 

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At Clear Channel Outdoor, we're more than a leader in Out-of-Home advertising. We're pioneers shaping the future of how brands connect with people in the real world. As one of the largest and most innovative advertising platforms in the U.S., we're redefining the power of OOH media with cutting-edge creativity, impactful digital billboards, advanced data analytics, and measurement solutions. But what truly sets us apart is our people. Our employees describe Clear Channel Outdoor as a place where collaboration thrives, where teams explore solutions together, and, where the supportive culture created by coworkers fuels motivation and success. We believe in investing in our culture because we k

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