Associate Project Manager Oxford - Akton Recruitment Ltd

Akton Recruitment Ltd

Verified Company

Oxford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Associate Project Manager

Location:
Oxford

Salary:
Competitive

We offer our clients professional advice of the highest quality on projects valued between £1M to £500M+.

The Project Management team draw on the vast amount of knowledge, expertise and experience gained from working across sectors and on projects around theworld.

Our abilities at managing out risk and inefficiency and driving projects forward to deliver real value are essential elements of our service and combined to produce exceptional results.

We work collaboratively with clients and supply chains, facilitating a team ethos where every member of the project team is able to contribute effectively in pursuit of the best solutions and to provide greater certainty of outcomes no matter what the complexityor challenge.

And due to our continuing success and growth, we are now looking for our next talented Associate Project Manager to be based at our head office in Oxfordshire.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams.

You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to learn and exhibiting the abilityto get the job done

What we offer:

This role offers the chance to progress your career within project management at a forward thinking, friendly company
Opportunity to learn and develop skills as part of a dynamic team
Exposure to a variety of projects, sectors, clients, and discipline experts
Ability to contribute to the growth and development of the team approach, adding value for our clients
Formal training
26 days holiday
Private Healthcare
Life Assurance
Pension
Highly competitive salary
Income Protection
Salary Sacrifice Cycle to Work Scheme
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Gym Membership Scheme
Company Car Scheme

Our client is an award-winning multi-discipline consultancy, delivering successful property and construction solutions across the UK and around the world.

The cornerstones of our strong client relationships are "understanding", "commitment" and "trust", whichmeans that we become trusted advisors that clients can depend on.

This focus and approach is in our DNA, resulting in consistent performance and over 80% repeat business.

With the extensive technical skills, depth of expert knowledge, and experience expected from a leading professional services company, delivering on our promises is a given, but good is never good enough.

We are always looking to raise the bar and stretch ourselvesto go further; to be faster and better than before and achieve even higher standards of quality and performance.

This requires flexibility and agility as well as innovation and creativity; looking from all directions and angles to produce ideas and solutionsthat enhance our clients' businesses.

Responsibilities:

Developing and maintaining new and existing business opportunities
Leading and delivery of Project Management services to clients across various sectors and project stages
Leading and management of multidisciplinary teams of internal and external design consultants
Manage existing client relationships and develop further opportunities
Build and maintain great teams
Identifying and developing innovative solutions for clients
Produce reports to suit relevant stages of the projects including monthly progress reports
Assist with conducting feasibility studies, including site surveys, site investigation, site evaluation, etc
Monitoring the performance of contractors including contract administration (NEC3/4 and/or JCT)
Arrange, attend, chair and record meetings as appropriate
Provide single point of contact taking responsibility for all aspects of the project and liaise with the client

Qualifications:

The ability to lead successful delivery of often more than one project and manage client relationships, including business development
A minimum of 10 years Construction project management and manging professional teams experience required
Experienced with Microsoft Office software, including MS Project required
Experience in delivering presentations and client facing with a positive attitude.
Experience in report writing
Excellent communication and problemsolving skills
RICS/CIOB accredited degree and/or chartered.