Senior Project Manager

Job Introduction

• Fixed Term
• 27 Hours Per Week
• Competitive salary per annum
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Senior Project Manager 

At Sodexo, we’re passionate about our people. We knowthat our teams are the key to delivering exceptional service and creatingmeaningful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees. 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of mechanical, electrical, andbuilding fabric projects across our corporate client portfolio. This is ahigh-impact role requiring strong leadership, technical expertise, and theability to manage complex, multi-site programmes with autonomy.
 

As a Senior Project Manager you'll: 

• Lead high-value, multi-stream projects from initiation to completion across multiple client sites.
• Deliver projects across a wide range of disciplines, including floor restacks, space reconfigurations, CAT A and CAT B fit outs, and critical asset replacements (boilers, chillers, AHUs, and more).
• Ensure alignment with Sodexo’s Project Management Framework and client-specific processes.
• Champion CDM regulations, ensuring compliance and providing advisory support to site teams.
• Manage full project P&L, ensuring accurate forecasting, budget control, and financial governance.
• Oversee commercial compliance in collaboration with commercial, finance, and QS teams.
• Lead strategic planning, risk management, and governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Influence senior stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on project delivery models.
• Ensure all work meets Health & Safety standards, sustainability requirements, and statutory obligations.
• Manage contractor performance and supply chain engagement.
• Support business development through pipeline planning and value optimisation.
• Mentor junior project managers and promote a culture of excellence and accountability.
• Report monthly on project milestones, risks, and financial performance to the Project Director (FM)
   

What we're looking for:

• Project Management certification (APM, PMI, Prince2 or equivalent).
• Extensive experience delivering M&E and building fabric projects.
• Strong technical capability and commercial awareness.
• Background in engineering or quantity surveying (highly desirable).
• Proven leadership experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation and outsourced IFM operations.
   

Why Sodexo?:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chanceto be part of something greater. 

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through youreveryday actions.

Thrive in your own way. 

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefitsfor our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support 
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
   

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every dayfor everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader inservices that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, servingover 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-SiteFood and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & HomeServices.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. Weare a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications frompeople with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds andidentities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our EmployeeNetworks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Abilitynetwork, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leaderemployer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, andmaking sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil theiraspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidateswith disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of somethinggreater? 

Sodexo reserves the right to closethis advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications