About this role
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors. Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Provide overall leadership to Project Management team including project and service delivery, processes, development etc. • Proactive day to day responsibility for large sized projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision. • Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation. • Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor/consultant selection and contract documentation. • Support risk and value management, including facilitation of workshops and project risk registers. • Contract administration for relevant contract provisions, monthly reporting and chairing project meetings. • Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality. • Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health & Safety and Quality Assurance. • Undertake service in compliance with client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable. • Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process. • Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement. • Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects. • Provide advice on procurement and contracts. • Responsibility for, and must be committed to promoting, protecting, developing and enabling the business and your colleagues, within the parameter of your job role • Contribute towards bid and tender preparation and business development. • Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service level. • Provide leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate. • Mentor and coach team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career. • Developing and managing the Project Programmes and obtaining the buy-in of all stakeholders. • Manage the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard. • Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects. • Communicating with team members to ensure that they understand and become engaged with the project strategies, briefs and client requirements. • Driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation.
Knowledge & Skills Required:
• The ability to: • Deliver results in a client facing role including: • Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team. • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery. • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges. • Commitment to outperforming client expectations. • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change. • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity. • Lead a team. • Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role. • Manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director. • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines. • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, creating a close-knit team. Motivate and mentor the team to work effectively in a dynamic environment, including the supply chain. • Prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
Preferred Education and Experience:
• Preferably degree qualified in a relevant field: construction, cost management, engineering or quantity surveying. • MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience. • Supporting Project Management Qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner / Certified Project Manager / MSP / Risk Management. • Experience in the Infrastructure sector is essential. • Leadership development training. • 7+ years’ experience (at least 5 years post qualification). • Extensive knowledge of construction industry technical matters. • Extensive experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC. • Excellent technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management. • Extensive experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle. • Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications. • Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills. • Strong interpersonal and team building skills. Strong interpersonal skills with both client and staff. • Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management. • Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning. • Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change. • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed. • Good experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.