Senior Project Manager (Banking) - Malaysia

Cushman & Wakefield Malaysia Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Diversity & Inclusion

Work-life balance

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in Malaysia seeks a Senior Project Manager (Banking) to lead project delivery for the Bank Malaysia portfolio, interfacing with business stakeholders, CRES, and external partners. You will drive governance, capital planning, and transformation initiatives while ensuring safety, budget, and on-time delivery.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement across projects.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in civil, mechanical & electrical, architecture, facilities & engineering, quantity surveying or structural engineering.
• 5 years in building construction/engineering/interior fitting out works.
• Experience delivering projects across sizes/types; understanding the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead project governance and lifecycle management across all phases.
• Monitor safety, quality, time and cost with weekly reporting.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, consultants and contractors.
• Ensure EHS compliance and regulatory requirements on all sites.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and development to the PM team.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Safety/EHS leadership

Education

Degree / Diploma in Civil Engineering / Mechanical & Electrical Engineering / Architecture / Facilities & Engineering / Quantity Surveying / Structural Engineering

Job description

Senior Project Manager (Banking) - Malaysia

The Senior Project Manager will be a leader in the Malaysia CRES Team while maintaining overall responsibility for the successful delivery of projects across the Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia portfolio. This role serves as the primary interface between SC business stakeholders, Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES), workplace leadership teams, and external consultants and contractors. The position is responsible for driving project governance, capital planning support, workplace and branch transformation initiatives, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with SC standards. The role will also focus on building and maintaining trusted relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor and ensuring alignment between business objectives and real estate project outcomes. The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership, coaching, and development to the local Project Management team while promoting a culture of accountability, collaboration, client service excellence, and continuous improvement.

About the role

Suitable candidates will be interested in and preferably experienced in delivering projects and work packages throughout all phases of a project lifecycle. Candidate will need to demonstrate a clear understanding of the project lifecycle. Suitable candidates can have backgrounds and experience in construction, design engineering, process engineering, project management, facilities management in projects varying in size, type and scale. Roles will involve the monitoring and management of day-to-day operations of the project or program, including developing short and long-range targets, daily activities, safety, quality, financial controls and reporting and coordination of all stakeholders and subcontractors. Candidate will need to plan the work schedules and efficiently organize the project activities in order to meet an agreed program of deadlines. Liaise with consultants and sub-contractors engaged on the project and provide weekly reports on all safety, quality, time and cost issues associated with the works. Candidate will be responsible for all administration responsibilities on the project depending on size and complexity. Will attend regular meetings with clients, consultants and contractors and ensure meeting minutes are recorded and issued in timely fashion i.e within 48 hours of meeting. Resolve technical difficulties and other issues that may arise. Candidate will need to be able to communicate to C&W senior management concisely and confidently and ensure solutions and contingencies are provided for each technical problem faced on projects. Manage contractors to oversee the day to day delivery of projects within different delivery models and provide daily/weekly reporting. Responsible for the EHS implementation and performance of the project. Ensure the EHS provisions and requirements are adhered to by all clients, consultants and contractors. Review EHS procedures and requirements, other EHS issues and recommendations for improvement on EHS issues. Provide feedback EHS matters or information to senior management for each project site. Ensure that all statutory requirements of the Regulations, Codes of Practice and company’s safety rules & regulations are complied with at all times.

About you

Degree / Diploma in Civil Engineering / Mechanical & Electrical Engineering / Architecture / Facilities & Engineering / Quantity Surveying / Structural Engineering. 5 years in building construction/ engineering/ interior fitting outworks. Suitable candidates can have backgrounds and experience in construction, design engineering, process engineering, project management, facilities management in projects varying in size, type and scale. Suitable candidates will be interested in and preferably experienced in delivering projects and work packages throughout all phases of a project lifecycle. Candidate will need to demonstrate a clear understanding of the project lifecycle.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

• Being part of a growing global company
• Career development and a promote from within culture
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program. We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong. That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

About Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core service lines of services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture.

For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com