Project Manager

Wallace Hind; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Project Manager - Retail Fit Out / Design to oversee projects from initiation to completion, ensuring client satisfaction and financial control. Ideal candidates will have experience in managing complex projects within retail, hospitality, or education sectors, and knowledge of project management software like MS Project and AutoCad is advantageous. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Hybrid working (3 days office based)

Contributory pension

Healthcare

28 days holidays

Discretionary annual bonus

Clothing allowance

Qualifications

• Proven track record in project management.
• Experience handling multiple projects end-to-end.
• Familiarity with full service retail design is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage all phases of the project from inception to completion.
• Coordinate with clients and internal teams about project details.
• Track project expenditure and manage variation controls.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Communication

Knowledge of project management software

Tools

Omniplan

MS Project

AutoCad

Job description

Project management plays a part in everyone’s life, but as a Project Manager – Retail Fit Out / Design, 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 – Retail Fit Out / Design

The role has been created due to current company growth, and we are now looking to recruit an additional Project Manager – Retail Fit Out / Design 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES : Project Manager – Retail Fit Out / Design

As our Project Manager – Retail Fit Out / Design, you will :

• 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.

PERSON SPECIFICATION : Project Manager – Retail Fit Out / Design

To be successful in your application you will have a proven track record of project management, you’ll be able to demonstrate handling multiple projects from start to finish, in particular the feasibility, design, procurement, construction, operations and close. In an ideal world this will be within a creative environment, but this is not essential.

In addition to this, we would be delighted to receive applications from individuals who meet the following brief :

• Any experience of full service retail design, shop fit out, construction, restaurants, hotels, gyms, laboratories, schools would be a distinct advantage
• Experience with complex projects requiring structural alterations, permission, compliance and approvals.
• Knowledge of project management software, any of Omniplan, MS Project or AutoCad.

THE COMPANY :

We are an independent company offering both in-house and through some 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