Overview In this role you lead end-to-end project management commissions within our Real Estate team in Manchester, acting as the primary client interface to ensure projects meet time, cost and quality targets. You will advise at conception, establish success criteria, and drive governance, planning, procurement, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll monitor performance with KPIs, manage finances and change control, and deliver regular reports while interfacing with clients and consultants. This is a chance to shape project delivery at scale in a global professional services firm.
Pay / Benefits - great place to work
- healthy, productive and flexible working environment
- work-life balance
- inclusive environment
Responsibilities - Lead project management commissions from start to finish and ensure delivery to time, cost, quality and performance targets
- Serve as the day-to-day client interface to align objectives and expectations
- Handle projects of varying scale (up to 40m normally; larger when advisory in nature)
- Advise on strategic approaches at project conception to meet client objectives
- Establish overall project success criteria (time, cost, technical, performance)
- Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment issues
- Establish governance, processes and systems for the project
- Produce detailed project plan and manage procurement of resources
- Lead and facilitate the cross-functional project team
- Apply performance management techniques and KPIs to improve project performance
- Manage change control process
- Monitor and advise on project finances
- Oversee information flow between team and client via meetings and reports
- Produce formal project progress and other reports
- Interface with client and other consultants at all project stages
Key requirements - Degree in relevant discipline (desirable)
- Proven experience managing construction/refurbishment projects, ideally in a consultancy environment (essential)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management
- Leadership and team facilitation
- Problem-solving and strategic thinking
- Project planning and scheduling
- Governance and controls
- Cost and finance monitoring
