Principal/Associate Project Manager

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Mission Critical sector is seeking an experienced Principal/Associate Project Manager to join their London office. This role involves managing complex, high-profile projects, ensuring timely delivery, and maintaining client relationships. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering or business, excellent communication skills, and proven experience in commercial project management.

Benefits

Flexible start and finish times

Part-time and hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Commercial Project Manager in infrastructure projects.
• Experience in the delivery of Mission Critical facilities is beneficial.
• A project management qualification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Leading the bid preparation stage of multi-disciplinary projects.
• Managing all commercial elements of complex high value projects.
• Ensuring project delivery to the agreed scope, budget, and programme.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Commercial Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Strong educational background in engineering or business

Tools

Primavera P6

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software

Project management software tools

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23.05.2025

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07.07.2025

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Job Description:

We are currently looking for an experienced Principal/Associate Commercial Project Manager to join our expanding Mission Critical team in our Central London office. We operate a hybrid working model which for us means typically 3 days in the office or on site and 2 days at home (depending on the need for site visits/client meetings).

Our Mission Critical facilities engineering experts bring together global data centre project experience and technical capability from site acquisition to project completion. Delivering data centre projects across Europe, clients see us as their most committed and reliable partner.

What does the role involve:

As a senior member of the Commercial Management team, you will be driving the coordination of people and processes to ensure that projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project’s scope, organisation, budget and timeline. The projects will be complex, high risk and high profile for Sweco’s Mission Critical Division. You will use your proven working experience, commercial skills and technical background to direct and shape projects, monitor and report on financial performance and contribute to the continuous development of management tools.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Independently leading the bid preparation stage of multi-disciplinary projects.
• Independently managing all the commercial elements of complex high value projects involving different internal and external international teams.
• Ensuring project delivery to the agreed scope, budget and programme. Anticipating and taking proactive action to highlight and mitigate risks.
• Delivering projects at the target profit. Tracking and reporting on projects’ financial KPIs and implementing strategies to improve financial performance.
• Reviewing, negotiating and managing bespoke Client contracts.
• Procuring and managing contracts of an international supply chain and ensuring contractual and quality compliance.
• Anticipating and proactively managing multiple stakeholders’ needs and leading on conflict resolution.
• Managing Client relationships and contributing to business development.
• Supporting the development and mentoring of other members of the team.
• Contributing to the development and improvement of Sweco’s Project Management and Commercial Governance systems and processes.

To be successful in this role you’ll possess:

A background in engineering/business and commercial management. You should be an excellent communicator and comfortable managing multiple tasks. You also need to be a team player and demonstrate leadership skills. You will be proactive, collaborative, organised, methodical and a natural problem solver with the ability to influence others.

• Must have Qualifications/Experience: Strong educational background in engineering or business.
• Significant experience as a Commercial Project Manager in the design and construction of infrastructure projects. Experience in the delivery of Mission Critical facilities would be beneficial.
• A project management qualification would be desirable.
• Experience in managing projects on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
• Solid understanding of financial metrics and contractual terms.
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
• Proficiency in project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices. Proven experience in project scheduling using Primavera P6 or similar software would be desirable.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively and resolve conflict.
• Ability to take initiative, manage conflicting priorities and adapt to change.
• Excellent Client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About Us

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

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Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

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