Job Location: Remote - United Kingdom
What you’ll be doing
- Delivering complex, multidisciplinary capital projects for public sector clients, ensuring successful outcomes across time, cost and quality.
- Providing operational leadership for the team, including monthly forecasting, financial monitoring and wider business management to ensure financial targets are achieved or exceeded.
- Engaging with senior leaders to raise the profile of the team and support a strong, collaborative and integrated team culture.
- Leading on new business activity, supporting bids and tenders, promoting the team’s services and proactively identifying opportunities through internal and external networking.
- Overseeing team leadership and performance management, including team structure, appraisals, development planning and career progression within the wider team.
- Managing recruitment activity across the team, including role definition, demand analysis and administration of Capita’s hiring processes.
- Preparing fee proposals, overseeing invoicing and managing month‑end processes, ensuring strong commercial and operational performance.
- Collaborating with multi‑disciplinary teams and key stakeholders, maintaining strong partnerships across the business and with clients.
- Travelling to sites when required, working across a national portfolio of projects (with travel expenses covered).
What we’re looking for:
Essential Criteria
- PM experience in a consultancy environment, managing multi‑disciplinary design and construction schemes and delivering projects to time, cost and quality objectives.
- Experience delivering public sector projects, with some Local Authority experience desirable.
- Degree‑qualified in a construction‑related discipline (e.g., Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Civil Engineering).
- Chartered in a suitable discipline — QS, BS or Civil Engineering (e.g., MRICS, MICE, MAPM).
- Strong understanding of a range of procurement methods and management methodologies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and work in close partnership with clients.
- A delivery‑driven, highly organised individual with a positive, self‑motivated, can‑do attitude.
- Membership of MICE, MRICS or MAPM.
Desirable Criteria
- Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
- Ability to innovate procurement approaches to achieve delivery targets.
- Previous experience with business management or holding financial accountability.
About Capita
Capita is an outsourcer, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences. Operating across 8 countries, Capita’s 41,000 colleagues support primarily UK and European clients with people-based services underpinned by market-leading technology.