What's involved with this role: Principal Project Manager - Capital Regeneration Job Ref: WYCA 0009 868B / 1 Pay Rate: £48,069 per annum Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is Permanent City: LEEDS Experience of working in partnership with a variety of stakeholders in a political context would be beneficial. An understanding of contractual mechanisms to safeguard public investment is also desirable. We are seeking a n experienced Principal Project Manager to lead and oversee land and property developments, as well as manage commercial negotiations for significant housing, regeneration, or placemaking capital projects. This role demands a proactive self-starter with exceptional communication skills and the ability to build and nurture strong partnership relationships. Key responsibilities include budget management, financial monitoring of project progress, and the development and management of funding agreements and contracts. The successful candidate will also oversee risk management, ensuring compliance with governance and assurance processes throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will bring experience working in partnership with diverse stakeholders, particularly within politically sensitive environments. A strong understanding of contractual mechanisms to safeguard public investments is highly desirable, enabling the successful navigation of complex agreements. Key accountabilities: Lead cross-disciplinary teams to deliver complex, high-profile economic transformation and capital projects. Support partners in developing business cases, ensuring projects deliver the required capabilities to achieve intended benefits. Oversee drafting, negotiating, and managing contracts, including approvals, change requests, extensions, and final accounts. Negotiate and finalise agreements to align with project goals and objectives. Balance and mitigate commercial risks while optimising financial returns, collaborating with legal and technical experts. Negotiate land-related matters such as acquisitions, disposals, and wayleaves, tailored to project-specific requirements. Key requirements: Please provide a one page cover letter including the following information: Your Degree in a relevant field, or relevant demonstrable practical experience performing in a similar role. Experience of leading and managing land and/or property developments, along with commercial negotiations for either major housing, regeneration or placemaking capital projects. Experience of managing commercial contracts and negotiations, which could include property acquisitions, leases, legal security and overage and knowledge of legal complexities of site assembly to bring forward delivery of capital works. Ability to negotiate and take a commercial approach to the management of devolved funding to third parties, whilst working partnership to achieve results. Extensive experience of business case development. Proven Contract Management and Project Management skills, and knowledge of a variety of techniques and good practice. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please