Senior Project Manager - Luxury Hotels

Overview

What You ll Be Doing

• Leading the end-to-end delivery of infrastructure, master planning, and hospitality projects (including hotel new-builds and refurbishment programmes), ensuring alignment with client requirements, project objectives, and contractual obligations.
• Develop and maintain project and programme execution plans, covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, interfaces, and communication across infrastructure and hospitality assets.
• Manage the full design management process from concept to IFC, ensuring coordinated, buildable, and cost-effective solutions across all disciplines (infrastructure, master planning, architecture, structure, MEP, and specialist hospitality disciplines).
• Lead design and technical coordination meetings, manage design changes/VE, and ensure compliance with brand/operator standards and local authority requirements for hotel and resort projects.
• Oversee planning and execution of hotel refurbishment projects/programmes, including phasing, decanting strategies, and coordination with hotel operations to minimize disruption to guests and revenue.
• Monitor project and programme progress, prepare regular status and dashboard reports, and proactively escalate key risks and issues with recommended mitigation actions.
• Interface with clients, hospitality operators/brands, authorities (e.g., for infrastructure NOCs and permits), contractors, and internal teams to secure timely approvals and decisions.
• Manage contract administration activities including variations, change control, claims support, and performance management of consultants and contractors.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards across all project activities, including live hotel refurbishment environments.
• Support procurement and appointment of design consultants, PMC subconsultants, specialist hospitality designers, and contractors, including scope definition, RFPs, evaluations, and recommendations.