Project / Contracts Manager
Coventry, Warwickshire
£55,000 - £65,000 + £5k Car Allowance + Package
D&B High Street Retail / Shopfitting / Car Showrooms
This is a design, fit-out, and refurbishment specialist who requires a Contracts / Project Manager with shopfitting and interiors refurbishment experience.
It's a great time to join the business; they have already secured last year's turnover in the first 6 months of this financial year. Their core clients keep giving them more work, hence this vacancy.
As the shopfitting and high street retail industries have become more competitive, this company has been fortunate enough to rely on their existing relationships for repeat business. As an £8m turnover business, this company focuses on developing relationships with their clients and providing exceptional service. What does this mean for you? You will have the opportunity to establish meaningful relationships with end clients that will develop over the years. Working for this client is focused on establishing partnerships with your supply chain and client. You will also report directly to the company owner, so there aren't layers of process and management to navigate.
The Role
Projects valued at £750k - £1.5m.
You will be joining 2 other Project Managers, but your focus will mainly be car showroom refurbishments, including interiors with some building work - cladding, steel, external groundworks.
You should have experience in pre and post-contract elements, including scoping, tendering, contract administration, and on-site management of contractors and other consultants. Perhaps the most important aspect of this role is client liaison, and you must be able to handle client and stakeholder inquiries, requests, and instructions effectively.
Duties to include:
* Ensure the delivery of the project within the budget and time scales specified
* Estimating contracts and tendering
* Ability to work independently and in a small team
* Quality, customer service, and delivery while working in a live environment
* Guaranteeing the profitability of the contract, including pricing and delivering of extra works
* Excellent client liaison skills
* Business acumen, good financial management, and the ability to introduce savings on costed projects
* Health & Safety control, both internally and externally
* Close and effective management of both directly employed staff and subcontract labor to ensure that commercial control is retained
* Development and overseeing of monitoring systems to track the success of projects, final accounts, and contract variations
* Responsible for the day-to-day running of all varieties of contracts with values ranging from £10k to £500k
* Projects nationwide in a variety of high street and shopping centers, requiring liaison and permit approval processes with the centers
* Client liaison and financial management of projects through to completion and final account
* The ideal candidate will be driven and proactive with shop fitting and retail fit-out experience
* Estimating knowledge would be an advantage as the role would also involve site surveys and tender pricing
* Working in a fast-paced environment with new and many repeat clients
* Liaising with all suppliers and subcontractors pre-contract and during projects
* Responsible for material procurement and clients' own nominated trades
* Liaising with our in-house Designer and assistant for site setup files, risk assessments, and H&S files, as well as completion of O&M files
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