Senior Project Manager

Opportunity

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through brief, feasibility, design, procurement, construction, and close-out.
• Act as day-to-day client lead, build trusted relationships, and provide commercial and programme advice.
• Manage consultant and contractor appointments, scopes, deliverables, governance, and reporting.
• Control programmes, budgets, risk registers, and project controls.
• Run procurement and tender processes, including RFPs and ITTs, bid evaluation, and recommendations.
• Administer predominantly JCT contracts, including change control, valuations, instructions, and progress certification where applicable.
• Manage client, landlord, occupier, design-team, and supply-chain stakeholders.
• Support fee proposals, business development, and cross-selling across the PDS platform.
• Drive quality, health and safety, and compliance to company governance and client standards.

Essential requirements

• Demonstrable experience delivering commercial or office projects within a consultancy environment.
• Strong capability across cost, programme, risk, and procurement.
• Working knowledge of JCT contracts and contract administration fundamentals.
• Confident stakeholder management and clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to run multiple projects simultaneously and maintain high-quality reporting and controls.

Desirable qualifications and experience

• MRICS, or working toward MRICS, and/or MCIOB.
• Experience across both investor and occupier projects.
• Familiarity with governance-heavy client environments and multidisciplinary teams.

Why Cushman & Wakefield

• The role sits in an established project management team within a global real estate consultancy and involves high-profile client instructions.
• The team offers access to specialists across building surveying, cost consultancy, ESG, and wider PDS services, along with structured career development and flexible working.