Project Manager - Retail

Are you a cool-headed experienced Project Manager, who is looking for an opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects across retail brands (high end fashion, outdoor wear, technology and automotive) as well as to grow and develop your career?

BASIC SALARY : £55,000 - £60,000

BENEFITS :
· Hybrid Working
· Pension
· Health Care
· 28 Days Holidays (inc Bank Holidays) + Christmas Shut Down

LOCATION : East Midlands

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS : Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Derby, Birmingham

JOB DESCRIPTION : Project Manager - Retail Fit-Out

The role has been created due to current company growth and we are now looking to recruit an additional Project Manager with experience of retail fit-outs.

As a Project Manager for us, you will be a coordinator of fit-out and deployment services for our clients. You must be highly organised, have excellent communication skills, be a planner, presenter, and team player working closely with our professional partners including architects, technical engineers and general contractors.

Your prime objective as our Project Manager is to understand, communicate and manage all client expectations to achieve a superior outcome for all. You will brief, coordinate and monitor output of all team members to ensure that each project, whatever scale or level of complexity, gets planned properly, that on site activities are executed accurately and safely and that all key project stakeholders continue to view us as a critical tactical partner for future retail growth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES : Project Manager - Retail Fit-Out

A more detailed brief will be made available to those who are shortlisted but in short, you will:
· Develop and preserve excellent relationships with client contacts, marketing teams and distributors.
· Inform clients and internal teams about project details, planning, timing and financial status.
· Provide input, assign roles and tasks to external parties, collect output, present to clients and team members from conception to completion.
· Dashboards, schedules, meeting minutes, site audits.
· Ensuring each project is delivered to CDM regulations and necessary requirements in market.
· Managing the full life cycle of the project; from conception to close out and final accounts.
· Track and communicate the project spend. Variation control and approval.
· Overseeing the on site teams including contractors and fitters at appropriate stages of the project.
· Motivate all team members who are a part of the project to exceed client expectations.

PERSON SPECIFICATION : Project Manager - Retail Fit-Out

We would be delighted to receive applications from individuals who meet the following brief:

· Proven track record and experience in project management specific to the delivery of retail fit-outs preferably with high end brands.
· Experience with complex projects requiring structural alterations, permissions and approvals.
· Comprehensive understanding of an end-to-end project management process, as well as fit-out and construction methods in the retail interior environment.
· Experience with seeing projects through from conception to completion as the lead project manager, preferably in a Project Management agency or a General Construction company, or as a client representative.
· Ability to learn local market nuances, requirements and needs to deliver projects successfully as part of the delivery team.
· Have an acute attention to detail with the confidence to insist on delivering top level customer service.
· Provide practical solutions to drive the project forward, adding value and exceeding the clients' expectations.
· Knowledge of Omniplan, MS Project as well as experience of AutoCad and BIM collab

THE COMPANY:

We are an independent company offering, both in-house and through some trusted supply side partnerships services that includes space planning & 3D rendering, technical architecture, MEP design, structural design, construction project management, cost management, process management and FFE procurement.

PROSPECTS:

· Succession planning is an integral part of our recruitment process, so it is imperative we employ individuals who have the desire and capability to take on greater responsibilities into the future.
· We offer the genuine potential for career development within the company. Where possible, we have an active policy of promotion from within and firmly believe in the development of all personnel.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles or markets: Project & Account Manager, Project Manager, Project Management, Retail Project, Retail Construction Project Manager.

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: IP17919, Wallace Hind Selection