Senior Project Manager Construction Consultancy
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A growing construction consultancy based in London is seeking a professional Senior Project Manager to join their expanding team. This Senior Project Manager opportunity offers the chance to take ownership of major commercial and private sector projects while playing a key role in client development, team growth and business expansion.
The successful Senior Project Manager will join a dynamic and entrepreneurial consultancy delivering high-quality projects across the commercial private sector market. This Senior Project Manager role is ideal for a confident and proactive individual capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously while also contributing to business development and client account management. The Senior Project Manager will work closely with senior leadership, helping shape the future growth of the London office and supporting the development of junior team members. This Senior Project Manager position offers genuine progression potential alongside the opportunity to take ownership of key client relationships and project delivery.
You must have prior construction consultancy experience to be considered for this role.
The successful Senior Project Manager will lead the delivery of multiple commercial and private sector projects across London.
Responsibilities include:
- Managing projects from inception through to completion
- Overseeing multiple live projects simultaneously
- Building and maintaining strong client relationships
- Taking ownership of key client accounts
- Supporting business development and identifying new opportunities
- Leading project meetings and stakeholder coordination
- Managing project reporting, budgets and delivery programmes
- Supporting the growth and mentoring of junior team members
- Ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget
The consultancy is seeking an experienced and commercially aware Senior Project Manager with:
- Consultancy-side project management experience
- Strong commercial or private sector project experience
- Proven ability managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills
- Business development and account management experience
- Leadership capabilities and team mentoring experience
- Degree qualified in Construction, Project Management or similar
- Chartered or working towards MRICS, MCIOB or MAPM preferred
- £68,000 - £78,000
- Bonus scheme
- Pension contribution
- Private healthcare
- Genuine progression opportunities
- Opportunity to help shape and grow a team
- Exposure to high-profile London projects
- Collaborative and entrepreneurial working environment
Senior Project Manager | Commercial Projects | Construction Consultancy | Business Development | Client Management | London Project Management
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Application advice
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⭐ Open your Personal Statement with explicit consultancy-side PM experience — the advert states 'You must have prior construction consultancy experience' as a hard filter, so make this unmissable in your first two lines.
📊 Quantify your project portfolio: e.g. 'Concurrently managed 6 live commercial fit-out projects totalling £42M GDV across Central London', as the advert stresses managing multiple projects simultaneously.
🎯 Highlight any MRICS, MCIOB or MAPM progress in a dedicated 'Professional Development' section — the advert lists chartership as preferred, and even 'working towards' status differentiates you.
🤝 Include a dedicated 'Business Development' achievement bullet — e.g. 'Secured £1.2M of repeat client instructions through proactive account management' — as BD and client growth are core to this role.
🌐 Reference your experience mentoring or line-managing junior staff with a concrete example (e.g. 'Mentored 3 graduate PMs, two of whom achieved MRICS within 18 months'), as team development is explicitly listed as a responsibility.
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- •Delivered 5 concurrent commercial fit-out projects totalling £38M across Central London, maintaining all programmes within a 2-week tolerance and achieving 100% client satisfaction scores on post-project reviews.
- •Secured £900k of repeat client instructions over 12 months through proactive account management and quarterly client review meetings, contributing directly to a 15% revenue increase for the consultancy.
- •Mentored 4 junior project managers through structured monthly reviews and on-project coaching, with 2 progressing to intermediate PM grade within 18 months of joining the team.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Brandon James Ltd's Senior Project Manager opportunity at this Westminster-based consultancy is precisely the next step I have been targeting — a role combining multi-project commercial delivery with genuine influence over team growth and client strategy. My background in consultancy-side project management, stakeholder coordination and business development aligns directly with the core requirements outlined in your advert.
My background in construction consultancy has seen me lead commercial and private sector projects from inception through to completion, managing programmes, budgets and client accounts across multiple live instructions simultaneously. I have a proven record of building lasting client relationships that generate repeat instructions, and I have supported the development of junior team members through structured mentoring. I am currently progressing towards chartership and bring the commercial awareness your growing London office requires.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you structure a project programme from inception to completion on a major commercial fit-out — what tools and methodologies do you use?
- ›How do you manage budget reporting across multiple live projects simultaneously, and what software or frameworks do you rely on?
- ›Describe your experience with stakeholder coordination on a complex commercial project — how do you manage conflicting priorities between client, contractor and design team?
- ›What does your approach to risk management look like on a consultancy-side project, and can you give a specific example where early risk identification saved programme time or cost?
- ›How do you ensure project reporting remains accurate and meaningful for clients at different levels of technical understanding?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you won a new client or secured a repeat instruction through proactive business development — what was your approach?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage a project that was running behind programme — how did you recover it and what did you learn?
- ›Give an example of how you have mentored or developed a junior team member and the impact that had on their performance.
- ›Tell me about a time you managed a difficult client relationship on a high-value project — how did you maintain trust and deliver a positive outcome?
- ›Describe a moment when you had to balance competing priorities across multiple live projects — how did you decide where to focus your time?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Describe a situation where you had to manage a project that was running behind programme — how did you recover it and what did you learn?
Tell me about a time you won a new client or secured a repeat instruction through proactive business development — what was your approach?
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