industrious - Senior Manager, Construction, Europe / UK
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Requirements
• Minimum 10 years’ professional experience managing commercial interior, retail, or hospitality construction projects from concept to completion. • At least 3 years’ experience managing a team, including direct reports. • Proven expertise in compiling and managing construction budgets, cost plans, and financial forecasts, with a demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects within strict financial parameters. • Significant experience tracking holistic project financials including estimating, contract negotiation, bid packages, cost reports, and final reconciliation. • Experience delivering projects across multiple European countries, navigating local regulations, BREEAM/WELL certification requirements, and multilingual teams. • Demonstrated ability to hire, lead, and inspire direct reports to deliver exceptional results, ideally including remote management. • Highly effective communicator and presenter, extremely organised, and reliable. • Ability to multitask, prioritise, and make sound decisions under tight deadlines with minimal supervision. • Experience designing and implementing cross-functional frameworks for continuous improvement. • Excellent knowledge of construction methods, MEP systems, and architectural coordination. • Proven ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with consultants, contractors, and vendors. • Degree in Construction Management, Architecture, or Engineering from an accredited institution preferred. • Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Project, Smartsheet, Procore, and Adobe Suite. • Comfortable engaging in a virtual environment with a distributed, multi-country team. • Commitment to modelling Industrious values of integrity, teamwork, and ownership day to day.
Responsibilities
• Project Delivery • Execute multiple projects simultaneously across various European markets. • Deliver high-quality projects on time and on budget, maintaining accountability for cost performance at every stage of delivery. • Lead the preparation of detailed project budgets, cost plans, and financial forecasts, ensuring alignment with approved targets and early identification of potential variances. • Manage all phases of projects, including project kick-off, scheduling, design and construction administration, budgeting, and coordination of all internal and external resources. • Negotiate contracts and fees, coordinate bidding processes, solicit and level project cost estimates, and lead value engineering exercises. • Lead project team meetings and oversee all project communications, including schedules, budgets, meeting minutes, RFIs, submittals, invoices, change orders, punch lists, and all construction documentation. • Develop and maintain project tracking tools and logs such as flow charts, trackers, checklists, SOPs, and templates. • Work closely with the Design team to ensure that design intent is maintained through to completion. • Collaborate with Real Estate and Legal to identify and manage risks and opportunities related to delivery conditions, financial reconciliation, vendor management, schedule, and budget prior to executing agreements or leases. • Partner with Landlord teams throughout the delivery process, setting clear expectations and aligning deliverables at key milestones. • Leadership & Strategy • Manage a team of Project Managers, overseeing their projects, priorities, and professional development. • Establish clear cost management processes across the team, ensuring consistent reporting, financial tracking, and value engineering practices across all projects. • Take ownership of developing and maintaining key cross-functional relationships, driving outcomes and ensuring alignment across Design, Facilities, Legal, and Real Estate. • Manage overall quality, financial, and schedule performance of your own projects and those of your team. • Develop and implement project delivery methods that prioritise speed to market and cost-effective solutions to enable network growth. • Build and maintain a strong Pre-Construction process for EU/UK projects, including due diligence, estimating capabilities, and GC partnerships. • Establish a multi-country GC and procurement strategy to support the company’s growth objectives. • Collaborate regularly with the Senior Director of Construction to track performance, progress, and achievement of key business objectives. • Track, coach, and motivate direct reports to ensure exceptional project outcomes. • Anticipate risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure contingencies are in place. • Identify opportunities to improve team efficiency, workflows, and processes to increase delivery speed and consistency.
Benefits
• The annual base compensation for this role ranges from £70,000 - £80,000. The successful candidate's actual base compensation will be based upon a variety of factors, including but not limited to work experience, job-related knowledge, skills, and professional qualifications. • You will also be eligible for up to 12.5% of base salary in performance-related bonus pay. • Base and bonus compensation are just two components of Industrious’ total compensation package that may be available to employees. Other great employee perks and benefits include private healthcare, pension, generous paid time off, professional development grants, Employee Assistance Programme, and many other benefits, subject to applicable eligibility criteria and company policies.
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