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About the Role
Lead the successful delivery and close-out of Retirement Villages Group's current construction and investment programme, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on driving delivery, resolving issues, and completing projects.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of all live construction projects, ensuring delivery against agreed cost, programme, quality, and safety requirements.
- Drive the completion, handover, and close-out of live projects.
- Identify delivery risks early and take decisive action.
- Manage defects, outstanding works, warranties, certification, and final accounts.
- Oversee the delivery of refurbishment and improvement programmes across the portfolio.
- Manage external consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
- Review design and technical proposals to optimize buildability, cost, programme, and operational performance.
- Provide clear leadership to the Project Management team and Head of Refurbishments, creating accountability and maintaining momentum.
- Set clear priorities and performance expectations for the team.
- Ensure resources are focused on critical projects and issues.
- Provide support, direction, and challenge to maintain pace and accountability.
- Build strong collaboration across Property, Operations, Asset Management, Sales, and Finance.
- Maintain strong oversight of project budgets, forecasts, and commercial performance.
- Manage variations, claims, and final accounts.
- Manage defects and making-good obligations.
- Manage project and departmental risk registers.
- Manage construction contracts, consultant appointments, warranties, and project documentation.
- Manage procurement and approval processes.
- Oversee construction health and safety matters.
- Ensure robust defects management protocols are in place.
- Ensure project KPIs are consistently monitored and achieved.
- Provide regular reporting on programme, cost, risk, quality, and key decisions.
- Prepare updates for the Executive Team and Board.
- Ensure projects are successfully handed over into the operational business with clear documentation, knowledge transfer, and management of residual risks.
Requirements
- Experienced construction leader with a strong track record of delivering and closing out complex construction or refurbishment projects.
- Strong commercial awareness.
- Excellent project and people leadership skills.
- Significant experience leading complex construction or refurbishment programmes.
- Strong track record of successfully completing and closing out projects.
- Excellent knowledge of project controls, construction contracts, procurement, cost management, and risk management.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Experience managing consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
- Ability to quickly take control of an established programme and identify critical delivery priorities.
- Previous experience leading and managing teams.
- Pragmatic, decisive, and solutions-focused approach.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Confidence operating with senior management, Executive, and Board-level stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations.
Skills
- Project delivery
- Project close-out
- Programme management
- Cost control
- Quality assurance
- Risk management
- Commercial management
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Reporting
- Procurement
- Contract management
- Defect management
- Financial oversight
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Fixed-term contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Head of Construction
- Senior Project Manager
- Construction Director
- Quantity Surveyor
Education Level
- Relevant degree preferred
- Professional qualifications such as RICS, MCIOB or equivalent desirable
About the Company
- Retirement Villages Group (RVG) believes that ageing should be about freedom, not compromise.
- RVG is on a mission to redefine retirement living in the UK, creating vibrant, inclusive communities where people can live independently, stay connected and age well.
- RVG has ambitious plans for the future.
- RVG's values are: Age Well, Community, Keep Improving, Invest Wisely, Planet Positive, One Team.