Project Manager

Description

As a Project Manager at Foster + Partners, you will play a pivotal role in the commercial, contractual, and operational management of architectural projects from appointment through to completion. Working closely with Partners, architects, clients, and consultants, you will help drive successful project outcomes, balancing commercial performance, risk management, and design excellence across a diverse portfolio of high-profile projects.

This role is ideal if you want to:

• Establish and maintain project execution plans, design programmes, and delivery strategies.
• Monitor project performance against scope, programmes, budget, and quality objectives.
• Lead projects from appointment through to successful completion.
• Play a key role in commercial, contractual, and operational decision-making.
• Influence project strategy, governance, and risk management.

What you will bring to the team:

• Significant project management experience within architecture, design, engineering, or professional consultancy.
• Strong knowledge of consultancy appointments and construction-related contracts.
• Experience managing project finances, budgets, forecasting, and commercial performance.
• A proven ability to identify and manage contractual and project risks.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a solutions-focused mindset.
• A collaborative approach, with the confidence to support and challenge project teams constructively.

What we offer:

We offer a benefits package designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. This includes medical and dental insurance, partially funded by the practice, life assurance, retirement planning support and access to employee assistance programmes providing counselling, wellbeing resources and lifestyle support.

To support you in building a meaningful career, the practice offers opportunities for development through continuous learning and knowledge sharing and insights from experienced colleagues.

If our designs spark your curiosity and you would like to contribute to solving complex challenges with local and global impact, we invite you to join our team. You’ll be challenged and inspired, collaborating on extraordinary projects in an environment designed to cultivate excellence.

About Foster + Partners

We believe in the power of design to enhance everyday life. Through a culture of purposeful curiosity, our work defines the way tomorrow’s built environments look, feel and function. Founded in 1967 by Norman Foster, what began as a small team is now a global practice with an outstanding design legacy, creating innovative and thoughtful solutions that shape skylines and landscapes around the world.

Whether designing an entire city or a bespoke door handle, we approach every project with ambition and dedicated creativity - and we seek exceptional people to enrich our practice. If you enjoy solving complex challenges and creating industry-defining designs and solutions, we invite you to join our team.

The practice is committed to supporting diversity and inclusivity and strives to create a working environment that is responsive to different cultures. We value the contributions of our diverse and creative team and are proud to offer equal opportunities for all.

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