Senior Project Manager

Our client focuses on attracting, retaining and developing people who share their passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return they offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. The people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you. You’ll develop, grow and exceed your potential. They take your career journey seriously and will support you every step of the way.

Role description:

If you’re an experienced Senior Project Manager and ambitious to achieve your career potential, read on.  Join this Prime Residential Development team and they’ll make sure you get the experience and personalised learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go. 

Our client is seeking to locate a career minded Senior Project Manager to support the Residential Development team on on-going design & build projects It is intended that the role will offer the opportunity to progress your career as your experience grows.

The team is involved in some of the UK’s most complex and stimulating projects that are diverse and technically demanding. They have an enviable reputation in the delivery of such schemes and are working closely with their blue-chip clients in this Residential sector delivering their most important projects.

Role accountabilities:

Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets

Deliver/assist to manage small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines

Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards

Analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making

Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems

Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations

Advise colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice

Collaborate with stakeholders and third party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

Qualifications & Experience:

You will bring relevant business experience including management of projects ranging from £3m to £600m+ together with previous prime developer/developer led project experience. You will be an adept communicator with the confidence to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships and the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders. With strong commercial acumen and organisational understanding you will take a logical approach with an ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects. 

Why Apply?

The work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. They make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with the clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, they can create a sustainable planet.

They continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of our clients DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, they can get to the heart of their clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, they have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that their projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that they do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, they are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where they operate.

To help protect our planet, they monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce their own environmental impact as part of their commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

The client’s Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

They want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Their ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. They believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how they improve quality of life and they work closely with people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to their success.

INTERESTED?

Apply in confidence to this advert or contact Izzy Brady on 0 7 7 5 9 1 2 7 6 2 2 for more information.