Construction Project Manager — Luxury Retail Fit-Out

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER - LUXURY RETTAIL FIT-OUT ML Projects is hiring a Project Manager with a background in leading the construction phase of luxury fashion retail projects across the UK and Europe. You will own the work from RIBA Stage 4 through to store opening, taking design information from our internal team, driving it through tender, procurement, site delivery, and handover. Project values range from £350,000 to £2M+. You will run several concurrent fit-outs, each with tight programmes, complex landlord and centre management interfaces, and clients who expect flagship-standard execution. We need someone who has run sites, written valuations, chased subcontractors, and signed off snags and who now wants to do that work from the client side, with the design and consultant team working to your direction rather than against it. This role is pitched at people who understand fit-out from the inside: how a programme really goes wrong, where money is actually lost, and what it takes to hand a store over clean. WHAT YOU WILL OWN CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY • Site leadership: Manage from possession through to handover. Chair progress meetings, issue instructions, drive the programme. • Programme certainty: interrogate contractor programmes, identify critical path risk early, and hold trades accountable. Late stores are non-negotiable. • Quality control: regular site inspections against drawings, specifications, and brand standards. Pick up defects early, not at snagging. • Handover and commissioning: drive snagging close-out, O pay fairly where they are right. STATUTORY high-spec finishes and demanding clients are. • RIBA Stages 4-7 — direct experience from Technical Design through Construction to Handover. • CDM 2015 — practical understanding of Principal Contractor and Principal Designer responsibilities. • JCT contract administration — comfortable issuing instructions, certifying valuations, managing variations, closing out final accounts. • Drawing literacy — able to read and coordinate architectural, structural, and M