Associate Project Manager

This is an exciting opportunity for an established Project Manager to lead and deliver large‐scale, multidisciplinary capital projects for a range of public sector clients, including NHS Trusts, education authorities and local government.

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering complex, multidisciplinary capital projects for public sector clients, ensuring successful outcomes across time, cost and quality.
• Providing operational leadership for the team, including monthly forecasting, financial monitoring and wider business management to ensure financial targets are achieved or exceeded.
• Engaging with senior leaders to raise the profile of the team and support a strong, collaborative and integrated team culture.
• Leading on new business activity, supporting bids and tenders, promoting the team’s services and proactively identifying opportunities through internal and external networking.
• Overseeing team leadership and performance management, including team structure, appraisals, development planning and career progression within the wider team.
• Managing recruitment activity across the team, including role definition, demand analysis and administration of Capita’s hiring processes.
• Preparing fee proposals, overseeing invoicing and managing month‐end processes, ensuring strong commercial and operational performance.
• Collaborating with multi‐disciplinary teams and key stakeholders, maintaining strong partnerships across the business and with clients.
• Travelling to sites when required, working across a national portfolio of projects (with travel expenses covered).

What we’re looking for:

Essential Criteria:

• PM experience in a consultancy environment, managing multi‐disciplinary design and construction schemes and delivering projects to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Experience delivering public sector projects, with some Local Authority experience desirable.
• Degree‐qualified in a construction‐related discipline (e.g., Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Civil Engineering).
• Chartered in a suitable discipline — QS, BS or Civil Engineering (e.g., MRICS, MICE, MAPM).
• Strong understanding of a range of procurement methods and management methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and work in close partnership with clients.
• A delivery‐driven, highly organised individual with a positive, self‐motivated, can‐do attitude.
• Membership of MICE, MRICS or MAPM.

Desirable Criteria:

• Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
• Ability to innovate procurement approaches to achieve delivery targets.
• Previous experience with business management or holding financial accountability.

About Capita:

Capita is an outsourcer, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences. Operating across 8 countries, Capita’s 41,000 colleagues support primarily UK and European clients with people-based services underpinned by market-leading technology.

We’re a vital support service for our clients, enabling the everyday interactions that we expect to run seamlessly, to run seamlessly. A publicly listed business with adjusted revenue of £2.6bn, Capita’s areas of focus are Central Government, Local Public Service, Defence, Learning, Fire & Security, Contact Centres and Pensions Solutions.

We’re embracing change to respond to the ever-changing needs of society, creating better outcomes for all our stakeholders.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Equal Opportunities:

At Capita, we’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application and start their career with us. We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, we want to hear from you if you’d like to discuss any adjustments you might need during your recruitment process.

We’re truly committed to building a diverse and representative workforce and as part of our strategic plans we are aiming to accelerate gender and ethnic representation in leadership. As such we would particularly welcome applications from people who are female and/or are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds.