PROJECT MANAGER – HOSPITALITY OPENINGS
Culinary Collective is a multi-brand hospitality group shaping the future of food, drink and culture through chef-led restaurants, bars, venues, events and catering operations.
We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the operator-side mobilisation of new openings, refurbishments, expansions and major operational-change projects.
This is not a construction project management role. You’ll work alongside our appointed design and build partners, coordinating Culinary Collective’s internal teams and ensuring every operational requirement, decision and deliverable is completed accurately and on time.
THE ROLE
You’ll manage the journey from initial feasibility through mobilisation, launch and 30/60/90-day stabilisation. Bringing together teams across Operations, Culinary, People, Finance, Technology, Commercial, Marketing and Compliance, you’ll create one clear plan for operational readiness.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and managing integrated mobilisation plans, timelines, RACIs, risk registers and readiness dashboards
- Coordinating operational information and decisions between Culinary Collective and external delivery partners
- Managing dependencies across recruitment, training, menus, suppliers, technology, licensing, marketing and launch activity
- Identifying risks, resolving conflicting priorities and escalating issues before they affect opening readiness
- Leading operational-impact and transition planning for refurbishments, phased works and relaunches
- Coordinating feasibility assessments and operator-side business case inputs
- Establishing clear, evidence-based readiness gates and supporting go/no-go decisions
- Coordinating soft openings, rehearsals, launch support and post-opening reviews
- Developing a scalable openings and operational-change playbook for the wider group
ABOUT YOU
You’ll bring:
- At least five years’ experience delivering hospitality openings, mobilisations, refurbishments or complex operational-change projects
- Experience coordinating operator readiness alongside separate property, design or construction teams
- Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to secure decisions through influence
- Excellent project controls, including planning, dependencies, RACI, RAID, reporting and close-out
- Commercial confidence and experience working with Finance on costs, operational assumptions and business cases
- The ability to turn complex or ambiguous information into clear actions, owners and deadlines
- Exceptional organisation, communication and stakeholder-management skills
- The flexibility to travel and be present on site during critical project and launch periods
Experience across multiple hospitality formats, international or partnership openings, and a recognised project-management qualification would be advantageous.
- This is an exciting opportunity to shape how Culinary Collective brings new concepts to life and delivers consistent, operationally ready openings across a growing portfolio.
BENEFITS
● Hybrid working: 2–3 days per week in our London Bridge office
● Unlimited holiday - we trust you to get the job done
● 50% off all food & drink across the group
● Annual development budget
