Pre-construction Manager - Leeds - E5637

You will own the pre-construction process—from tender to contract award—bringing together internal specialists, consultants, and clients to deliver safe, intelligent, and compelling project proposals. You’ll manage multiple complex projects across a diverse range of sectors including education, healthcare, defence, justice, and residential.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead project development from bid stage through PCSA (where applicable) to handover, ensuring technical, financial, and programme deliverables are aligned.
• Champion design for manufacture and off-site delivery strategies that maximise efficiency, cost control, and sustainability.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary inputs including design, estimating, planning, delivery, commercial, and legal.
• Influence project strategy, risk mitigation, and programme phasing.
• Build and maintain high-trust relationships with clients, consultants, and supply chain partners.
• Present tender solutions to Senior Leadership, supporting negotiations and contract close.
• Coach and mentor junior team members, fostering knowledge-sharing and development.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Personal Characteristics:

• A strong communicator and a proven ability to build positive working relationships, internally/externally across all levels of management.
• Confident and assertive to enable challenges to be overcome with strong focus on results and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to coordinate and manage own workload and prioritise accordingly to support project delivery.
• Resilient, positive & confident character.
• Enthusiastic and keen to use new technologies to improve traditional ways of working.
• Innovate by sharing ideas and challenging standard practices.
• A desire to drive efficiencies through continuous improvement.
• Ability to work well as part of a professional team and also independently using own initiative.
• Making sound and timely decisions based on robust planning and effective use of systems and resources.
• Understands what needs to be done; executes on objectives effectively and is focused on delivering timely, value adding results.
• Acts to quickly and efficiently solve both internal and external customer concerns; elicits customer feedback to identify their needs and monitors their satisfaction; resolves root cause of customer problems.

Work Experience:

• Demonstrable project management experience, with construction/ Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) experience being desirable.
• Technical knowledge of MMC – particularly volumetric solutions – is desirable.
• Ideally, the candidate will have experience of working simultaneously across large scale, multi-million £ projects.
• Project management experience, leading and coordinating inputs from colleagues specialising in design, costing, programme planning, logistics etc.
• Strong analytical skills to understand sometimes conflicting inputs and balance outcomes for successful project outcomes.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft suite as a minimum, with other software from AutoDesK, Asta, etc being desirable.

Qualifications:

• You will ideally hold a recognised degree within a relevant discipline, e.g. architecture, construction, building, engineering, quantity surveying etc, although strong project management qualifications (eg PRINCE2, APM), appropriate experience and a demonstrable interest in MMC/construction could be considered.
• CDM Regulation qualifications beneficial but training can be provided.