Senior / Associate Project Manager – Real Estate

Overview

As a Project Manager in our Edinburgh Real Estate team, you will lead end-to-end project commissions, ensuring delivery to time, cost, and quality targets. You’ll act as the main client interface, shaping objectives and governance while coordinating cross-functional teams. You will manage procurement, finance, risk and change control, and drive improvements across processes and reporting. This role offers exposure to large, complex projects and opportunities to develop new business with existing and new clients. You’ll contribute to a culture focused on impactful, sustainable outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project commissions and ensure delivery to time, cost and quality targets
• Act as day-to-day client interface and align project objectives with client needs
• Establish project success criteria including time, cost, technical and performance parameters
• Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment issues
• Set up project governance, processes and systems; produce detailed project plans
• Advise on resource procurement and lead cross-functional project teams
• Monitor performance using KPIs and manage change control
• Oversee project finances and invoicing; use FMS for financial status
• Manage information flow with client and consultants; regular meetings and reports
• Interface with clients and other consultants at all stages of the project
• Support marketing and business development; develop new opportunities and assist bids
• Maintain project case studies, photos and CV files
• Identify opportunities to improve PM products and services
• Staff management and recruitment for project teams; input into appraisals
• Knowledge management: capture learnings in internal database
• Process improvement across internal systems and processes

Key requirements

• Degree in relevant discipline
• Proven experience managing Real Estate projects, ideally in a consultancy environment

• Stakeholder management
• Leadership and team collaboration
• Effective communication
• Project governance and planning
• Cost control and budgeting
• Risk and change management

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