Senior Project Manager (French Speaking)
Retail & Commercial Projects | UK & Europe
Location: Flexible (London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol or Winchester)
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Eden Brown is working in partnership with a leading international property and construction consultancy to recruit a French-speaking Senior Project Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly regarded project management team delivering refurbishment, fit-out and capital investment programmes across the retail sector throughout the UK and Europe.
A key part of this role will involve managing and coordinating with a French-speaking contractor, making fluent French language skills essential.
Working with a major international retail client, you will oversee a diverse portfolio of projects including store refurbishments, fit-outs, extensions, asset renewal programmes and strategic rollouts. Project values range from £100k to £20m.
Beyond retail, this role offers significant scope to broaden your experience across the consultancys wider Private Property division, providing exposure to office fit-outs, workplace transformation, commercial relocations and a variety of corporate real estate projects.
The Role
As Senior Project Manager, you will take full responsibility for the successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects, managing stakeholders, consultants, contractors and client teams from project inception through to completion.
While projects will generally be focused around your home region, occasional travel across the UK and Europe will be required.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of refurbishment, fit-out and capital investment projects from inception to completion.
- Manage relationships with clients, consultants, contractors and key stakeholders.
- Coordinate and manage a French-speaking contractor, ensuring effective communication throughout project delivery.
- Develop and oversee project programmes, budgets and risk management strategies.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety standards and best practice.
- Manage design teams and consultant appointments.
- Monitor project performance against agreed KPIs and commercial objectives.
- Support the continuous improvement of project delivery processes and programme performance.
- Provide leadership and direction across multiple projects simultaneously.
About You
- Fluent French speaker with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven experience delivering retail refurbishment, fit-out or capital projects.
- Strong project management background within the property, construction or infrastructure sectors.
- Commercially aware with strong financial management skills.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders across complex project environments.
- Membership of, or working towards, a recognised professional body such as RICS, CIOB, APM, ICE or equivalent.
- Ability to work independently whilst managing several projects at varying stages of delivery.
Why Apply?
- Opportunity to work on high-profile UK and European retail projects.
- Flexible location across a number of UK offices.
- Excellent career development opportunities within a leading consultancy.
- Exposure to a broad range of projects across the Private Property sector, not just retail.
- Strong pipeline of work and long-term career progression prospects.
- Collaborative and supportive team environment.
If you are a French-speaking Project Manager or Senior Project Manager looking to take the next step in your career and gain exposure to a wider range of commercial property projects, wed love to hear from you.
Apply today or contact Paul @ Eden Brown for a confidential discussion.
+44 (0)77 6907 2991
Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Project Manager (French Speaking)
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