Project Manager
22 hours ago
City of London
Exclusive to Grõ Careers | Central London Not on job boards. Not with any other agency. Some project professionals are strongest not because they are leading the design itself, but because they are the person holding everything around it together. The programme. The commercials. The change. The scope. The coordination. The risk. The clarity that keeps delivery moving. If you are the kind of person who brings structure to complex projects - keeping teams aligned, managing change properly, and helping protect programme, budget, and delivery performance - this opportunity may be building in your direction. Grõ Careers has been exclusively retained on a Project Manager opportunity with a highly respected, multiple award-winning and design-led multidisciplinary firm in Central London. This is a rare move for someone who wants to step into a more progressive project / design management environment, supporting major live schemes while developing further in commercial management, contract administration, change control, and structured delivery. The Opportunity You’ll join an established management function working across complex projects where successful delivery depends on strong coordination, clear reporting, sound commercial awareness, and robust project controls. This is a position for someone who enjoys creating structure around project delivery - coordinating teams, tracking progress, managing change, supporting programmes, and helping multidisciplinary project teams work in a clear, organised, and commercially disciplined way. You’ll work closely with senior colleagues and design teams in a visible, client-facing environment, with genuine scope to progress quickly. What you’ll do • Support project delivery across multiple workstreams and live schemes, • Coordinate internal teams, external consultants, and wider project stakeholders, • Help create and manage project programmes, deliverables, actions, and reporting, • Support commercial processes, including fee tracking, forecasting, invoicing support, and broader project controls, • Help manage scope, change, and contractual issues across live projects, • Monitor project risks, issues, and delivery dependencies, • Attend and lead project meetings, workshops, and coordination sessions, • Maintain clear records around project change, RFIs, comments, and key decisions, • Support resource planning, team alignment, and project set-up activities, • Work closely with senior project leaders to help maintain momentum, accountability, and delivery quality Why this is different • A chance to join a substantial specialist team rather than a business where project management sits alongside another job, • Exposure to major, complex, design-led schemes within an award-winning environment, • A strong fit for people who want to deepen their experience in commercials, contracts, change, and multidisciplinary delivery, • Real development potential, with a highly progressive route into broader project / design management responsibility and senior opportunities You’ll be a strong fit if… • You are currently working as a Project Manager, Design Manager, Assistant Design Manager, Project Coordinator, Technical PM, or similar within a complex project environment, • You have experience supporting or managing coordination across multiple disciplines and stakeholders, • You are comfortable with reporting, trackers, project controls, and delivery management processes, • You understand the impact of change, scope, programme pressure, and commercial implications across a project, • You have experience supporting budgets, forecasting, fee-related processes, variations, or project reporting, • You have worked in NEC contract environments and understand the principles of structured change control, compensation events, programme implications, and contractual discipline, • You enjoy creating structure, improving workflows, and helping teams perform at their best, • You are organised, proactive, and comfortable working in fast-moving environments Particularly relevant backgrounds We are especially keen to hear from people with experience in: • major multidisciplinary projects, • healthcare, infrastructure, workplace, science & technology, public sector, mixed-use, or similarly complex environments, • project management, design management, contractor-side, consultancy, engineering, or design-led delivery roles, • NEC contract environments, • change control, risk management, project reporting, or commercially aware coordination roles What you’ll get • A permanent role within a highly regarded London studio, • A clear move into a more developed and progressive project / design management environment, • Strong long-term career development potential, • A collaborative, high-performing team, • Flexibility to work from home, • Competitive salary and benefits package If this sounds like the kind of move you’ve been building towards, please apply exclusively via Grõ Careers with your CV.