Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure Delivery in City of London

Cognisant is supporting a major UK developer with the appointment of a Senior Project Manager to take responsibility for the planning, procurement and delivery of significant infrastructure works across a large-scale mixed-use master development.

This is a broad, client-side project management position offering exposure across the full development lifecycle. Rather than joining at a single stage of delivery, the successful individual will be involved from early strategy, planning and technical development through procurement and into construction, completion and handover.

The scale and long-term nature of the development means the role will provide exposure to complex infrastructure delivery alongside the wider commercial, planning and development considerations associated with bringing forward a major masterplan.

The Role

Reporting into the senior infrastructure leadership team, you will take ownership of major infrastructure projects and workstreams, coordinating internal teams, consultants, contractors, local authorities and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities will include:

• Leading major infrastructure workstreams from inception through to completion
• Developing project scopes, programmes, budgets, cashflows and delivery strategies
• Managing highways, utilities, drainage, civils, enabling works and associated infrastructure
• Procuring and managing multidisciplinary consultant teams
• Supporting contractor procurement, tendering and contract administration
• Managing planning requirements, technical approvals and statutory agreements
• Monitoring programme, budget, risk, change and project performance
• Working alongside commercial teams on procurement strategy, variations and value engineering
• Managing contractors through construction, completion and defects
• Ensuring appropriate health & safety, environmental, quality and CDM standards
• Reporting progress, forecasts and key project risks to senior stakeholders

The Person

There is flexibility around background and current title. Suitable candidates could currently be working for a developer, master developer, project management or engineering consultancy, or major contractor.

You are likely to have experience delivering complex infrastructure involving some combination of highways, utilities, drainage, civils and enabling works, together with broader project management responsibility.

Of particular interest will be candidates who can demonstrate:

• Genuine ownership of infrastructure projects or substantial work packages
• Experience progressing projects through multiple stages of the development lifecycle
• Strong consultant and contractor management experience
• Procurement, tendering and contract administration exposure
• Working knowledge of NEC and/or JCT
• Responsibility for programme, budget, forecasting, risk and change
• Experience working with local authorities, statutory bodies and multidisciplinary stakeholders
• A relevant construction, engineering or project management qualification

The emphasis is on project leadership and delivery rather than purely technical capability.

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to work client-side on a major long-term development where infrastructure is fundamental to the wider masterplan.

The successful individual will gain exposure to considerably more than the physical delivery of individual packages, with involvement in the wider master development process, infrastructure strategy, planning, procurement, commercial decision-making and development phasing.

For an established Senior Project Manager, it offers significant scale and breadth of responsibility. Equally, there is flexibility to consider a strong Project Manager who has the underlying infrastructure experience and is ready to step into a broader position.