Assistant Project Manager: JLL in Bengaluru

Peegee; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL in Bengaluru is hiring an assistant project manager to support corporate fit-out and development projects. You will own small projects, help manage reporting structures, and forecast expenditure while maintaining budgets and client relationships.

The role requires a property-related degree and at least three years in design, construction, or project management. Expect site coordination, risk awareness, and collaboration with consultants and vendors.

Qualifications

• A degree in a property-related discipline and at least three years in design, construction or project management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, structure and resilience under deadlines.
• Experience managing budgets and payment cycles, vendors contracts, risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Assist the project manager and senior project manager on corporate fit-out and development projects.
• Own small projects, drive project structure, reporting and procedures.
• Forecast expenditure and manage budgets; monitor payments and client relationships.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Project coordination

Education

Property-related degree

Job description

JLL's project and development services line is hiring an assistant project manager in Bengaluru to work alongside the project manager or the senior project manager on corporate fit-out and development projects: owning the small ones, supporting the large ones, running each project's structure, reporting and procedures, forecasting expenditure and managing budgets, holding the client relationship and the payment cycle, managing the consultants and administering the vendors' contracts, mitigating risk and keeping health, safety and sustainability in front. The posting, requisition REQ524804 on JLL's Workday careers site and titled specialist, engineering services on the board, was published on 16 September 2026 and asks for a degree in a property-related discipline and at least three years in design, construction or project management, with the expectation that the role drives the use of JLL's technology platforms. This page paraphrases it, reads the requirements, describes the work and the city and lists where a candidate relocating to Bengaluru can live; it links to the posting, which is the only place to apply.

The posting in detail

Pillar of the team: working with the project manager or the senior project manager or both, the assistant drives project success, owns small projects and boosts the major ones, brings out the best in the team for all stakeholders, leads on each project's organisational structure so that reporting, communication and working procedures are streamlined and objectives are clear, attends the project meetings and produces the reports, analyses and reviews, and forecasts expenditure and manages budgets with organisation and attention to detail. Building client relationships: identifying the client's needs, requirements and constraints; representing the client's interests while balancing JLL's; looking for opportunities to introduce prospects to other JLL business lines; managing project revenue and payment cycles to avoid bad debt. Upholding delivery: managing the professional consultants for design and documentation; administering every vendor's contract professionally and lawfully to protect the client's and JLL's commercial interests; identifying project risks and mitigating them; keeping health and safety and sustainability front of mind; solving problems with urgency and handling competing priorities and deadlines with resilience. The successful project managers the posting describes engage stakeholders confidently, are driven, structured, collaborative and thrive under pressure, and the teams are tech-savvy and digitally enabled, with the assistant expected to drive the platforms' use.

What JLL asks for

A degree in any property-related discipline, civil, MEP, architecture, construction management or quantity surveying, and at least three years in design, construction or project management; the traits are stakeholder engagement, drive, structure, communication and resilience under deadlines. An assistant who has run a fit-out floor from design coordination to handover, can read a programme and a cost plan and has administered a contractor's contract is the profile; the conversion guide and the furniture guide describe the small-scale version of the same sequence, and the licensing guide the permissions a Bengaluru fit-out needs from the same authorities a PG conversion does.

The site, the shift and the hours

Bengaluru, at the project sites the posting does not name, and a project-services role moves between sites through a year; the city's corporate fit-out and campus work runs through Whitefield , the Outer Ring Road and Bellandur , Electronic City and the central district. The posting does not state hours; project roles run to the programme, and the current portfolio, the sites and the travel between them are the first call's questions. Fit-out work in Bengaluru runs to the landlord's working-hours rules as much as to the programme, and night shifts for noisy work are usual in occupied buildings; an assistant who will be on site for a Sunday shutdown should ask how those hours are compensated, whether a site allowance exists and whether the site provides transport at the hour a night shift ends.

Questions to ask the recruiter about this posting

Which projects are live, where, and which the assistant will own outright. The project manager or senior the role works with and the team's size. The technology platforms the posting expects the role to drive, so they can be learned before the interview. The consultants and contractors on the current projects and who administers their contracts today. The payment-cycle history on the account, since the posting names bad debt. The client's safety regime and the permit-to-work system on site. The travel between sites and whether a two-wheeler is expected. The reporting cadence and the report formats. The promotion path to project manager and the qualification, if any, the account expects. And the range, since the posting states none; the Bengaluru cost guide is the number a relocating candidate sets it against.

Where project-management roles sit in India's property sector

Project management in commercial real estate is the delivery of fit-outs, refurbishments and new builds for occupiers and landlords: the design coordination, the tender, the contractor, the schedule, the cost and the handover. Firms such as JLL run project-management teams in India's metros, and the roles run from assistant project manager to project director over fifteen years, usually from civil or MEP engineering or architecture. The conversion guide and the furniture guide describe the same discipline at PG scale, where a house's conversion is a small project with the same sequence of permissions, trades and handover.

What the posting does not say about pay, and how to read it

The postings state the seniority, the years and the project types and rarely a salary; this page invents none. An assistant project manager on fit-outs and a project manager on a campus build sit in different bands, and the recruiter gives the range at the first call. The first-month budget guide works the relocation month; project roles move between sites, and the field-staff guide explains the month-to-month and short-stay options that fit.

How to prepare the application

Apply through the Workday link on this page with a CV that states the projects delivered by area, value and duration, the contractors and consultants managed, the tools used for scheduling and cost control, and the professional qualification held, since the screening reads for those. Expect a round on a schedule slip or a cost overrun and a question on site safety. A candidate relocating should read the PG pages linked below and the month-to-month guide ; a project runs for months and a monthly plan near the site is often the right stay.

The interview, in practice

Project-management interviews run on a schedule and a cost sheet. The screening confirms the projects delivered by area, value and duration and the professional qualification; the technical round gives a fit-out programme with a slip, a contractor's variation claim and a client who wants the floor a fortnight early, and asks for the recovery plan, the commercial position and the client message; the assessors listen for the critical path and the contract clause. A safety round asks about an incident on site, the permit-to-work system and the audit that followed, and a commercial round about a claim negotiated and a payment cycle managed without bad debt, which the posting names. The client round tests whether the candidate can chair a design meeting with consultants who outrank her. Civil, MEP or architecture degrees with a project-management qualification are the profile; references go to a consultant and a contractor as well as the employer.

What a project manager reads on PeeGee.in

A project professional reads a PG conversion the way she reads a fit-out: the sanctioned plan and the society's bye-laws in the conversion guide, the fire NOC and the electrical load in the licensing guide, the room-size norm in the room-size guide, the furniture list in the furniture guide, the handover in the inventory guide. A house that has done them in that order is one she recognises, and the month-to-month guide is the plan she takes for herself between projects.

Progression from this role

From an assistant project manager's chair the path runs to project manager, senior project manager, associate director and project director over fifteen years, on projects delivered by value and on time; the credentials that move a candidate are a project-management qualification, a safety qualification and, later, a chartered status in the home discipline. Specialisms in data centres, laboratories or hospitals pay a premium; the conversion guide explains why a project professional who has delivered a fit-out can read a PG conversion's sequence at a glance.

Living near the site: PG options in Bengaluru

A project professional moving between Bengaluru sites through the year is the guest the month-to-month guide and the field-staff guide describe, and the city's answer is a monthly plan in a central locality with the Ring Road in reach: Koramangala ran ₹5,000–21,000 across 23 owner price points in September 2026, BTM Layout ₹4,500–30,000 across 19 and JP Nagar ₹4,500–23,000 across 19, with Indiranagar on the Purple Line for the eastern sites. The Bengaluru cost guide sets the belts side by side, the short-stay Bengaluru page lists the houses that take a fortnight while the first site is confirmed, and the season guide explains why a September arrival should look in October rather than the rush. Start from the Bengaluru PG hub , the ladies’ PG page for Bengaluru , the working men’s page and the short-stay page.

Frequently asked questions

What does the JLL assistant project manager job in Bengaluru involve?

Working with the project manager on corporate fit-out and development projects: owning small projects and supporting large ones, project structure, reporting and budgets, the client relationship and payment cycles, consultants and vendor contract administration, risk mitigation, and health, safety and sustainability, using JLL's project technology platforms.

What qualification does the posting ask for?

A degree in a property-related discipline and at least three years in design, construction or project management, with confident stakeholder engagement, structure and resilience under deadlines.

Why is the posting titled specialist, engineering services?

That is the board's title for the requisition; the description is the assistant project manager brief in JLL's project and development services line.

Where are the project sites and what are the hours?

Not named; Bengaluru's fit-out and campus work runs through Whitefield, the Outer Ring Road, Electronic City and the central district, and project roles run to the programme. Ask the recruiter about the portfolio and the travel.

How do I apply?

Only through the JLL Workday posting REQ524804 linked on this page, published on 16 September 2026; it may close without notice.

Sources and further reading

• JLL careers — Assistant Project Manager, Bengaluru (REQ524804)
• JLL India
• JLL careers, India postings

Posting details on this page were read from the JLL Workday careers site on 17 September 2026 (requisition REQ524804); the employer’s posting governs and may close without notice. Rent figures, where quoted, follow the September 2026 owner-listing bands on the linked locality pages.