Overview As a Project Manager in our Edinburgh Real Estate team, you will lead end-to-end project delivery for strategic commissions, ensuring time, cost and quality targets are met. You’ll be the primary client interface, coordinating cross-functional teams and governance structures to realise client objectives. You’ll influence project scope, planning, procurement, reporting and risk management, while seeking new business opportunities. This role combines hands-on delivery with shaping client-facing, service-delivery excellence in a sustainability-minded firm.
Pay / Benefits - flexible working environment
- focus on work-life balance
- inclusive culture
- opportunity to affect change
Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end project management of commissions, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and quality standards
- Act as day-to-day client interface, aligning with client objectives
- Strategic advisement at project conception and establishing success criteria
- Develop and manage detailed project plans; oversee governance, processes and systems
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams and procurement decisions
- Monitor performance using KPIs and manage change control
- Oversee project finances and invoicing; monitor financial status
- Produce formal project progress reports and maintain client communications
- Engage with clients and consultants at all stages; support business development and bid activities
- Identify opportunities to improve PM products and services; manage internal knowledge and resources
- Contribute to staff development, resource planning and appraisals where appropriate
- Coordinate knowledge management and maintain project case studies and CVs
- Support process improvements and use of internal tools (e.g., FMS)
Key requirements - Proven experience managing Real Estate projects, ideally in a consultancy environment
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline
- strong communication and client-facing skills
- cross-functional collaboration
- leadership and team coordination
- project management
- governance and quality management
- KPI-driven performance management
