Apprentice Project Manager

Colliers is a leading commercial real estate services company, providing a full range of services to real estate occupiers, developers, and investors on a local, national, and international basis. Services include brokerage sales and leasing (landlord and tenant representation), real estate management, valuation, consulting, project management, project marketing and research. We provide our services across the core sectors (office, industrial, retail and hotel) as well as many specialised property types.

The UK business is headquartered in London, with over 1200 specialists throughout 16 offices across the UK and Ireland.

Role

A Project Manager at Colliers provides excellent professional advice and service to clients and is a member of a key talent pool within the organisation.

A Project Manager at Colliers is entrusted with the organisation’s reputation and is expected to live its values.

· Be enterprising to exceed expectations

· Collaborate to drive exceptional results

· Invest in relationships to deliver enduring value

· Be experts to lead our industry into the future

· Do what's right for our clients, people and communities

The Colliers competency framework outlines who our people need to be and the behaviours they should display to meet the expectations of clients, colleagues and stakeholders. The 3 competencies encapsulate what a successful professional at Colliers looks like for each: knowledge, skills, mindset.

Position Summary

· To undertake programme management instructions for our UK & EMEA corporate clients including SBD, FTI & RedHat. This will include managing instructions being delivered by our Project Management teams ‘in country’ and best in class 3rd parties.

· This role helps ensure that Project Management & Cost Management instructions are undertaken in a consistent manner and in line with our service agreements.

· To assist with bids for Project Management & Cost Management multi-market mandates, across the UK and EMEA.

· The role is in a team with 5 Directors, 3 Associate Directors, 2 Senior Programme/Project Managers, 1 PMO, 1 Building Surveyor, 1 Assistant PMO. The team is currently recruiting a Project Manager apprentice.

· We regularly interact with 800 Project managers, Building Surveyors and Cost Managers across EMEA and our OS EMEA team (130) which includes transaction managers, account managers, workplace advisors and other corporate real estate specialists.

Main Responsibilities

• To deliver project management work for clients, co-ordinating capital projects across multiple markets in a consistent, value driven way in line with contracted KPIs

• To ensure that work is conducted within Colliers Best Practice standards

• To support colleagues working on your accounts to ensure their activities and deliverables are consistent and in line with contract service levels and governance frameworks

• To develop direct client relationships and contribute to activities and events organised by Colliers Occupier Services

• To provide intel for our clients and help keep them up to date with industry best practice

• To work diligently to meet team and Business Group targets.

• To work as part of the OS EMEA team to generate fees for our in-country teams and record these referrals

• To seek opportunities to develop new business including cross-selling and identification of new business

• To promote cross team collaboration to ensure client’s success; this could be suggesting continuous improvement actions based upon project outcome

• Must possess excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

• Must possess excellent organisation and time management skills

• Must possess sound IT skills, particularly MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Must be able to work effectively as part of a team

• Must be able to implement and monitor governance systems

At Colliers, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we will accommodate any suitable candidate requiring assistance to attend or conduct an interview. If you need any adjustments or support, please let us know when either scheduling your interview or in your application cover letter. We are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are here to support you throughout the process.