Senior Project Manager (Healthcare)

Overview

In this role you lead healthcare construction projects in London, guiding delivery from inception to handover. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and support business development to grow the healthcare team. The position offers hybrid working and site-based collaboration across London and the South East. You will mentor junior colleagues and contribute to the delivery of complex projects that improve clinical environments.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid and flexible working
• professional development and chartership support
• wellbeing initiatives
• learning and development opportunities
• recruitment and talent development
• competitive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of healthcare construction projects within time, budget, and quality targets
• Manage full project lifecycle from planning and design to procurement, construction and handover
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, consultants, contractors and stakeholders
• Chair project meetings and drive progress against objectives
• Oversee preparation and approval of project deliverables
• Manage tender processes, appraisals, procurement strategies and commercial negotiations
• Administer construction contracts, including NEC contracts
• Monitor budgets, programmes, risks and resources with mitigation plans
• Maintain client and stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment with requirements
• Prepare reports, execution plans, and risk registers
• Support business development and bid/tender submissions
• Mentor junior team members and support their progression
• Contribute to recruitment, talent development and team growth
• Support healthcare sector business development and client presentations
• Maintain high standards of service delivery and contribute to portfolio growth

Key requirements

• Proven experience delivering healthcare construction or built environment projects
• Experience in a construction consultancy or healthcare client organisation
• Strong understanding of healthcare estates and clinical environment challenges
• Experience administering NEC contracts; NEC accreditation desirable
• Strong project management skills including programme, budget, risk, and stakeholder management
• Excellent leadership and client-facing capabilities with ability to manage multidisciplinary teams
• Strong written/verbal communication and project documentation skills
• Proactive, organised and solutions-focused with ability to handle competing priorities
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Professional accreditation or membership (APM, RICS, CIOB) or commitment to chartership
• Eligible to live and work in the UK

• leadership
• client-facing communication
• proactive organisation
• NEC contract administration
• programme management
• budget management

…