Senior Project Manager

Company Profile CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries. Job Title: Senior Project ManagerCBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management. We are recruiting a Senior Project Manager to join the team located in Newbury.The main purposes of the job are: to providing leadership, management, and development of project opportunities within the Location; to ensure projects are secured and then delivered to meet time and budget requirements and to meet or exceed client expectations.Key Responsibilities• Provide leadership in identifying and specifying project opportunities and in delivering contractual commitments on secured projects.• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of projects are exploited to deliver increased turnover and profitability. • To deliver projects to completion on time and on budget and to the satisfaction of all parties, expectations to be exceeded wherever possible.• To identify, reduce and manage all risks (technical, statutory, health and safety, commercial or otherwise) associated with each and every project.• Ensure compliance with CBRE project management policies and procedures. • Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both CBRE and subcontractors activities, and are regularly review on each and every project. This will include the timely delivery of a Health and Safety file for the works and full compliance with CDM regulations.• To build strong relationships with sub-contractors, in particular preferred suppliers, to ensure cost effective solutions which meets our quality expectations can be delivered to our clients whilst managing the risk and ensuring back to back terms and conditions.• Working with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the projects business with effective team working and support of colleagues. • Development of project financial plans for revenue and profit delivery.• Ensure positive cash flow through the up front agreement of a relevant payment schedule and the submission of timely invoices/applications for payment. Ensuring all debt is controlled below 60 days.• Manage the delivery of projects within agreed budget requirements with the target to maximise profit through cost reductions and better buying of sub-contractor services.• Ensure appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts and the CBRE site teams/managers to identify and win project opportunities.• Promoting and maintaining the core Values of CBRE.• Delivering effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate. • Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings.Accountabilities• Reporting to a CBRE Head of Projects or a Regional Director.• Accountability to the CBRE functional heads, as appropriate.• Accountable day-to-day to the relevant client contacts.• Financial responsibility for the delivery of Plan commitments for projects.