Project Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A project management company in Leicester is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee diverse projects from start to finish. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in project management and experience in managing client expectations. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits including hybrid working, pension, and healthcare.

Benefits

Hybrid working (3 days office based)

Contributory Pension

Healthcare

28 days holidays

Discretionary annual bonus

Clothing allowance

Qualifications

• Proven track record of project management handling multiple projects from start to finish.
• Experience in retail design, construction, or creative environments.
• Knowledge of project management software is essential.

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of projects from cradle to grave.
• Inform clients and internal teams about project details.
• Track and communicate project spend.
• Oversee onsite teams including contractors.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Budget tracking

Communication

Tools

MS Project

AutoCAD

Job description

Overview

Project management plays a part in everyone's life, but as a Project Manager, you've made a career of it, working on a variety of projects, keeping everything on time and in budget is your forte, running the entire project from cradle to grave. We partner with household names across retail / fashion, finance, DIY, healthcare and office plus more, both in the UK, US, Europe and the Far East.

BASIC SALARY: £40,000 - £45,000

BENEFITS: Hybrid working (3 days office based); Contributory Pension; Healthcare; 28 days holidays; Discretionary annual bonus; Clothing allowance

LOCATION: Leicester

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Coalville, Hinckley, Coventry, Corby, Market Harborough, Kettering, Rugby

JOB DESCRIPTION: Project Manager

The role has been created due to current company growth, and we are now looking to recruit an additional Project Manager with experience of running end-to-end projects. Our projects range from purpose-built facilities to working within historic / iconic locations - Oxford Street and 5th Avenue to name two, sometimes this creates incredible challenges with infrastructure.

Your prime objective is to understand, communicate and manage all client expectations to achieve a superior outcome for all. You will brief, coordinate and monitor all parties (not manage) to ensure that each project, whatever scale or level of complexity, gets planned properly, and that on site activities are executed accurately and safely.

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of the project from cradle to grave, developing excellent relationships with client contacts, marketing teams and distributors.
• Inform clients and internal teams about project details, planning, timing and financial status.
• Provide input, assign roles and tasks to external parties, collect output, present to clients and team members from conception to completion.
• Track and communicate the project spend. Variation control and approval.
• Oversee the onsite teams including contractors and fitters at appropriate stages of the project.

Qualifications / Experience

• Proven track record of project management with the ability to handle multiple projects from start to finish, including feasibility, design, procurement, construction, operations and close.
• Experience in a creative environment is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience in full service retail design, shop fit out, construction, restaurants, hotels, gyms, laboratories, schools would be advantageous.
• Experience with complex projects requiring structural alterations, permissions, compliance and approvals.
• Knowledge of project management software such as Omniplan, MS Project or AutoCAD.

The Company

We are an independent company offering both in-house and through trusted supply side partnerships, services that include space planning & 3D rendering, technical architecture, MEP design, structural design, construction project management, cost management, process management and FFE procurement.

Interested?

Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: IP18254, Wallace Hind Selection