Durham
Role: PFI Manager (Healthcare SPV) Location: Durham Contract: Permanent (4 days on site) Salary: 50k-70k plus package Overview We are working with a well established SPV on a complex healthcare project in Durham. The contract is approaching expiry, with significant activity underway as the asset progresses through the handback phase. The PFI Manager will sit within a consultancy team supporting the SPV and the client, providing operational, technical, and commercial oversight. The appointed PFI Manager will act as the senior on-site lead for the SPV, driving operational performance, handback readiness, and maintaining strong, positive relationships with Trust stakeholders, funders, and service providers. This is a challenging and high-profile role for an experienced PFI professional with handback exposure, strong healthcare knowledge, and the ability to manage complex stakeholder environments. Key Responsibilities • Act as the senior on-site PFI Manager representing the SPV, supporting the client through a complex healthcare PFI contract, • Lead handback preparation and execution, ensuring contractual, technical, and commercial obligations are met, • Build and maintain positive relationships with Trust stakeholders, funders, and FM partners, fostering collaboration and trust, • Oversee operational performance across hard and soft FM services, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and PFI standards, • Provide governance, reporting, and assurance to senior client stakeholders and the SPV, • Support commercial oversight, including financial performance, risk management, and value protection, • Coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams related to asset condition, lifecycle planning, and contract compliance, • Ensure robust documentation, audit trails, and readiness for formal handback processes, • Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing site culture alongside the on-site team Essential Experience • Proven experience in healthcare PFI environments, preferably acute hospital assets, • Hands-on PFI handback experience is essential, • Strong knowledge of asset management, lifecycle delivery, and compliance within live healthcare environments, • Experience managing operational performance across soft and hard FM services, • Demonstrable ability to build and maintain positive, long-term stakeholder relationships, • Commercially aware, able to support financial oversight and risk management, • Comfortable operating at a senior management level within a consultancy-client support model Personal Attributes • Credible, confident, and resilient PFI professional, • Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, • Detail-focused, structured, and highly organised, • Calm, authoritative, and solution-focused in high-pressure situations, • Hands-on, pragmatic, and outcomes-driven