Senior Project Manager

• Full time
• Monday to Friday - 08:30-17:00
• £75000 per annum
• Opportunities for professional development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Senior Project Manager

No fixed location

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

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of mechanical, electrical, and building fabric projects across our corporate client portfolio. This is a high-impact role requiring strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability 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 chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you.

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for 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 day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with 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 something greater?

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

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• HR-5933_Benefits UK Brochure V9.pdf