Senior Project Manager - Residential & Commercial Developments

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Our Residential and Commercial Developments team are looking for an ambitious Senior Project Manager to join their London team. 

You’ll support the team with ongoing design and build and joint venture projects within the resident and commercial sectors. 

Arcadis are involved in some of the UK’s most complex and stimulating projects, that are diverse and technically demanding. We have an enviable reputation in the delivery of such schemes and are working closely with our blue-chip clients delivering their most important projects.

Role accountabilities:

• Building trusted relationships with members of client organisations to lead delivery teams and support opportunities for new and repeat business;
• Day-to-day delivery and contract administration of a project or projects (prime and affordable residential, developer led, PRS, BtR, PBSA) to budget, quality and time metrics;
• Delivering timely and accurate data collection, analysis and reports;
• Working within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets;
• Managing of any project risks or issues to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and monitor the delivery of projects to relevant standards;
• Interacting effectively across the organisation, completing professional level tasks for others to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet client expectations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant business experience including management of projects ranging from £5m to £50m+;
• Industry relevant degree or qualification;
• MRICS or equivalent professional membership (or working towards);
• Good residential led development experience;
• Good knowledge of the JCT suite of contracts;
• Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships;
• Building the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders;
• Commercial acumen and organisational understanding;
• A logical approach to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects;
• Knowledge of own area and a general understanding of wider programme and business.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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