Senior Project Manager

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Use of the full range of Project Management Process.

• Proactive day to day responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.

• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.

• Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor/consultant selection and contract documentation.

• Lead risk and value management, including facilitation of workshops and project risk registers.

• Contract administration for relevant contract provisions, monthly reporting and chairing project meetings.

• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.

• Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health & Safety and Quality Assurance.

• Undertake service in compliance with client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable.

• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.

• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.

• Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects.

• Providing advice on procurement and contracts.

• Responsibility for, and must be committed to promoting, protecting, developing and enabling the business and your colleagues, within the parameter of your job role

• Support bid and tender preparation and business development.

• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service level.

• Providing leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.

• Mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.

• Developing and managing the Project Programmes and obtaining the buy-in of all stakeholders.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Deliver results in a client facing role including:

• Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.

• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.

• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.

• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.

• Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.

• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.

• Starting to lead a team.

• Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role.

• Managing conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.

• Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines

• Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain

• Prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified (industry or non-industry)

• MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience.

• Some formal Leadership training.

• 5-10 years’ experience (at least 3 years post qualification).

• Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.

• Strong experience of industry standard forms of contract.

• Strong technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management.

• Good experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle.

• Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications.

• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.

• Developing interpersonal and team building skills. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff.

• Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management.

• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.

• An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.

• Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.