Development Senior Project Manager

Kabannas; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic hybrid hotel group in Scotland is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee hotel developments from acquisition to delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience in hospitality or mixed-use projects, coordinating teams and budgets while ensuring adherence to contractual and regulatory requirements. This role offers the chance to engage in innovative hotel developments across Europe and the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality, student, or mixed-use development projects.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, design-led environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee developments from project management perspective.
• Collaborate to manage project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Prepare project progress reports at all stages.
• Identify risks to project development and manage budget.
• Manage planning consents and conditions.

Skills

Project management experience

Budget management

Team coordination

Understanding of regulatory requirements

Job description

Kabannas is a dynamic and rapidly expanding Hybrid Hotel group with a mission to redefine urban hospitality and is targeting €100m+ in acquisitions of assets across Europe. With 4 locations live and plans to grow to 15 across the UK and major European cities over the next 4 years, we specialise in acquiring, developing, and operating flexible hotel concepts in vibrant urban settings. Our projects range from refurbishments of existing hotels to adaptive reuse of office buildings into stylish, multifunctional hybrid hotels.

As Senior Project Manager , you will support the successful delivery of our hotel developments from post‑acquisition through to the start of the contractor tender process. Working closely with the Acquisition and Construction Directors, you will manage project timelines, and oversee pre‑construction processes across RIBA Stages 1‑4 / 5 and support coordinate design teams. You'll also play a supporting role during acquisition phases, assisting the Head of Acquisitions with technical due diligence. This role is ideal for someone with project management or development manager experience in hospitality, student or mix use development projects who thrives in a fast‑paced, design‑led environment.

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our development team and be involved in a wide range of refurbishment and new build projects across the development life cycle, gaining hands on experience in very innovative hybrid hotel developments in the Europe and the UK.

Suitable candidates will have strong project management experience as the role involves project management, managing budgets, coordinating teams, and ensuring projects meet contractual and regulatory requirements.

Due to the growth and activity in the current pipeline we require a Senior Project Manager to work within the small management team and collaborate with the design, commercial, and construction teams to ensure successful, on‑time, and within‑budget project delivery.

Additionally, this will involve regular reporting to an executive team and significant interface with project stakeholders and partners.

The Role Involves

Oversee developments, from the project management perspective, at various stages of the development life cycle from early concept, acquisition, planning, design, procurement through to delivery and handover.

• Collaborate with the company teams to develop and manage project plans, schedules, specifications, and budgets.
• Adopting a rigorous approach to the control of cost, quality, change management and programme by implementing project tools and procedures, employer & construction standards and documentation to prevent programme and budget over‑runs.
• Preparation of project progress reports, incorporating collated contractor and consultant project information / reports and issuing to the team - all stages from pre‑Acquisition, to Development and Construction stages.
• Proactively managing the projects through the development process identifying key risks to project development / delivery and managing budget or funding.
• Work together with the internal team and partners to scope and select project advisers and consultants.
• Support on initial technical site feasibility studies, identifying development opportunities and constraints in conjunction with other departments.
• Manage planning consents, discharge planning conditions, and work with design teams to ensure projects are fully prepared for construction by working closely with external planning consultants and local planning authorities.
• Strive to identify and mitigate bottlenecks in the development of the design and construction processes and recommend mitigating strategies.
• Work with internal teams to transition completed developments to operational management.
• Support on the company procurement strategies.