Senior / Associate Project Manager, Healthcare, Built Environment Consultancy in Liverpool

What’s the Opportunity

We have a requirement for a Senior / Associate level Project Manager with a passion for delivering project management through a proactive approach, with an interest in collaborative working and seeking opportunities to grow both a team and a portfolio of clients. This integral role will suit you if you have proven experience of delivering healthcare projects within a consultancy in the built environment.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Support a Senior Partner Lead in the Healthcare sector across the North of England.
• Develop with others the project management team
• Actively assist in the business development focus for the project management team
• Build, nurture and maintain trusted client relationships, with both existing and new clients
• Lead client facing meetings, multi-disciplined teams and own ultimate project delivery
• Demonstrate best practice leadership behaviours, as a leader to wider team members
• Maintain the highest quality standards of professional expertise throughout all aspects
• Coach and support more junior team members to build their confidence, competence and passion
• Manage large scale and / or multiple projects with key clients, and at times specifically owning particular aspects of project work in a hands-on manner

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Ideally you will be degree qualified in a relative field, such as project management or engineering
• Proven experience of delivering healthcare projects within a consultancy in the built environment.
• Ideally you would hold MRICS / MCIOB / APMP / Prince 2 Chartered status, albeit this is not essential, and we can support you to achieve this chartered status
• Experienced in high value and complex healthcare build projects gained in a consultancy environment
• Exceptional communication skills, with individuals of all levels, both internally and externally
• An ability to build, nurture and maintain trusted client relationships
• An ability to contribute to the growth and development of the team, adding value for our clients, growing the wider business
• An analytical mind with a high level of intellect - combining excellent written and oral skills to produce considered and robust reports and recommendations
• Strong commercial acumen with excellent negotiation and organisational skills
• An excellent all-round technical project management knowledge, to establish yourself as a trusted advisor within your team, office and the wider organisation.

Ideally one or a combination of the following qualifications (however we would be willing to accept applications from candidates who are considering working towards them):

• MRICS
• MCIOB
• ChPP

Your personal attributes are:

• An entrepreneurial spirit, combined with inquisitiveness, diligence and resilience
• Excellent communication skills
• Be able to articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams.
• You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to work flexibly, both in the office and on-site, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness and exhibiting the ability to lead teams to complete projects successfully.

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.