Senior Project Manager

Strata Construction Consulting; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction consulting firm in Birmingham seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee development-related projects. The role involves managing multi-disciplinary projects, preparing bid proposals, and coordinating design outputs. Candidates should have a degree in Project Management or Engineering and a minimum of 10 years' experience in a similar capacity. Strong interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills are essential. This position offers a competitive salary and hybrid working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid Working

Company Share Ownership scheme

Private healthcare

Wellbeing services

Cycle to Work Scheme

Techscheme

Professional subscription payment

Company pension

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in a similar role managing design commissions for large land delivery projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience managing medium and large projects to time, cost, and quality objectives.

Responsibilities

• Oversee preparation of bid proposal documents to confirm scope, costs, and timeframes.
• Manage multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring successful delivery to agreed targets.
• Coordinate design outputs and collaborate with the project team and stakeholders.
• Set project objectives and define tasks for the project team.
• Facilitate communication and information control within the project team.
• Prepare project delivery programme and regular reports on cost and delivery.
• Apply quality assurance and document control throughout project delivery.
• Identify and manage potential contractual or commercial risks.
• Undertake invoicing and credit control to ensure optimal cash flow.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Project Management or Engineering

Job description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing a range of Development related projects. This role is a great opportunity to develop your career and manage some fantastic projects to take control over.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid Working
• Option to participate in the Company Share Ownership scheme
• Private healthcare and access to a range of wellbeing services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Techscheme
• Payment of professional subscription
• Company pension
• Life Assurance

The role:

• Preparation of bid proposal documents for multi-disciplinary projects to confirm scope, costs and timeframes to the Client.
• The management of multi-disciplinary projects both from a technical and financial perspectives, in accordance with Client requirements, corporate and business policies, directives, guidance and procedures; ensuring successful delivery to agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality.
• Design coordination and review outputs, in line with broader project requirements, involving collaboration and effective communication with the Client, wider project team and other stakeholders.
• Setting project objectives and defining tasks for the project team.
• Facilitating communication, co-ordination and information control and flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners.
• Preparing and coordinating the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and delivery information in a timely manner, as required internally or externally.
• Applying quality assurance and document control practises throughout project delivery;
• Identifying, escalating, and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual / commercial risk to the business.
• Identifying necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing effective change control processes.
• Undertaking invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance team); comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying issues and risks – at project set‑up and regularly thereafter.

What you need to succeed:

• Degree qualified (or a relevant equivalent qualification) in either Project Management, or one of the Engineering disciplines.
• A minimum of ten years’ experience in a similar role, with demonstrable experience of working on design commissions for large land delivery projects.
• Strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience of managing medium and large sized design projects to time, cost and quality objectives.