Think Recruitment
Coventry, Warwickshire
Project / Contracts Manager Coventry, Warwickshire 55,000 - 65,000 + 5k Car Allowance + Package D&B High Street Retail / Shopfitting / Car Showrooms This is a design, fit out and refurbishment specialist who require a Contracts / Project Manager who has shopfitting and interiors refurbishment experience. It's a great time to join the business, they have already secured last year's turnover in their first 6 months of this financial year. Their core clients keep giving them more work, hence this vacancy. As the shopfitting and high street retail industries have become more competitive this company have been fortunate enough to rely on their existing relationships for repeat business. As an 8m turnover business this company focus on developing relationships with their clients and bending over backwards for them. What does this mean for you? You will have the opportunity to establish some real, worth while relationships with end clients that will develop over the years. Working for this client is focussed on establishing partnerships with your supply chain and client. You will also report directly into the company owner so there isn't layers of process and management to navigate. The Role Projects valued 750k - 1.5m. You will be joining 2 other Project Managers, but your focus will mainly be car showroom refurbishments. Including interiors with some building work - cladding, steel, external groundworks. You should have experience of pre and post contract elements including scoping, tendering, contract administration and on-site management of contractors and other consultants. Perhaps the most important aspect of this role is the client liaison, and you must be able to be pragmatic and handle client and stakeholder enquiries requests and instructions effectively. Duties to include: Ensure the delivery of the project within the budget and time scales specified Estimating contracts and tendering Ability to work on your own and in a small team Quality, customer service and delivery as you may be working in a live environment at times. Guaranteeing the profitability of the contract to include pricing and delivering of extra works Excellent client liaison skills You will have business acumen good financial management and the ability to introduce savings on costed projects Health & Safety control, both internally and externally Close and effective management of both directly employed staff and sub-contract labour to ensure that commercial control is retained. The development and overseeing of monitoring systems to track the success of projects, final accounts, and in contract variations To be responsible for the day to day running of all varieties of contracts with values ranging from 10k to 500k We carry out projects nationwide in a variety of high street and shopping centres and the role would require liaison and permit approval process with the centres. Client liaison and financial management of projects through to completion and final account The ideal candidate will be driven and proactive with shop fitting and retail fit-out experience. Estimating knowledge would be an advantage as the role would also involve site surveys and tender pricing This is working in a fast paced environment where the company is always developing, working with new and many repeat clients To liaise with all suppliers, sub contractors pre contract and during projects To be responsible for material procurement and clients own nominated trades Liaising with our in house Designer and assistant, for site set up files, risk assessments and H&S files, Also Completion of O&M files
Project / Contracts Manager Coventry, Warwickshire 55,000 - 65,000 + 5k Car Allowance + Package D&B High Street Retail / Shopfitting / Car Showrooms This is a design, fit out and refurbishment specialist who require a Contracts / Project Manager who has shopfitting and interiors refurbishment experience. It's a great time to join the business, they have already secured last year's turnover in their first 6 months of this financial year. Their core clients keep giving them more work, hence this vacancy. As the shopfitting and high street retail industries have become more competitive this company have been fortunate enough to rely on their existing relationships for repeat business. As an 8m turnover business this company focus on developing relationships with their clients and bending over backwards for them. What does this mean for you? You will have the opportunity to establish some real, worth while relationships with end clients that will develop over the years. Working for this client is focussed on establishing partnerships with your supply chain and client. You will also report directly into the company owner so there isn't layers of process and management to navigate. The Role Projects valued 750k - 1.5m. You will be joining 2 other Project Managers, but your focus will mainly be car showroom refurbishments. Including interiors with some building work - cladding, steel, external groundworks. You should have experience of pre and post contract elements including scoping, tendering, contract administration and on-site management of contractors and other consultants. Perhaps the most important aspect of this role is the client liaison, and you must be able to be pragmatic and handle client and stakeholder enquiries requests and instructions effectively. Duties to include: Ensure the delivery of the project within the budget and time scales specified Estimating contracts and tendering Ability to work on your own and in a small team Quality, customer service and delivery as you may be working in a live environment at times. Guaranteeing the profitability of the contract to include pricing and delivering of extra works Excellent client liaison skills You will have business acumen good financial management and the ability to introduce savings on costed projects Health & Safety control, both internally and externally Close and effective management of both directly employed staff and sub-contract labour to ensure that commercial control is retained. The development and overseeing of monitoring systems to track the success of projects, final accounts, and in contract variations To be responsible for the day to day running of all varieties of contracts with values ranging from 10k to 500k We carry out projects nationwide in a variety of high street and shopping centres and the role would require liaison and permit approval process with the centres. Client liaison and financial management of projects through to completion and final account The ideal candidate will be driven and proactive with shop fitting and retail fit-out experience. Estimating knowledge would be an advantage as the role would also involve site surveys and tender pricing This is working in a fast paced environment where the company is always developing, working with new and many repeat clients To liaise with all suppliers, sub contractors pre contract and during projects To be responsible for material procurement and clients own nominated trades Liaising with our in house Designer and assistant, for site set up files, risk assessments and H&S files, Also Completion of O&M files
