• Partner with the Director of Property from day one to define briefs and establish scheme requirements before costs are committed
• Produce initial feasibility layouts, including court configurations, clubhouse placement, and key spatial planning, to support early site viability assessments
• Review and challenge feasibility cost plans alongside the independent QS, identifying inconsistencies or risks
• Carry out early-stage risk assessments to minimise abortive spend
• Maintain a live pipeline tracker across all active and prospective sites

• Manage planning activity across all schemes, ensuring submissions, approvals, and condition discharges remain on programme
• Act as the primary liaison between the club and external consultants, driving responsiveness and eliminating bottlenecks
• Track planning milestones and proactively escalate risks to programme delivery
• Review design outputs to ensure alignment with brief, budget, and operational requirements, challenging unnecessary complexity or cost
• Coordinate landlord approvals, including licences to alter, ensuring timelines are met

• Lead all contractor and consultant appointments from a client-side perspective
• Oversee contract management across schemes, scrutinising payment applications prior to approval
• Procure and manage specialist suppliers, including courts, security systems, AV, FF&E, surfaces, signage, and operational equipment
• Evaluate and benchmark supplier pricing, negotiating commercially advantageous terms
• Work with insurance brokers to ensure appropriate coverage is in place
• Enforce robust change control, ensuring all variations are costed and agreed before instruction

• Own and manage the master programme for each scheme, with clear milestones and accountability
• Chair regular progress meetings and provide clear, accurate reporting to HQ
• Identify and mitigate programme risks early to avoid delays
• Manage the transition from practical completion through to operational readiness
• Ensure utilities are procured and delivered in line with programme requirements

• Work closely with finance to manage payment schedules in line with programme delivery
• Flag disputes or cash flow risks proactively
• Maintain accurate cost-to-complete forecasts and regularly report on financial performance
• Review valuations and payment applications against progress and scope
• Track budget performance, providing clear variance reporting with recommended actions
• Support final account negotiations alongside the QS
• Challenge scope creep and cost escalation at source

• Lead practical completion across all schemes
• Manage snagging through to full resolution
• Ensure a seamless handover to operations, with venues fully ready to trade
• Compile and maintain all project documentation, including O&M manuals, warranties, and compliance records

• Proven track record delivering leisure, hospitality, or retail construction or fit-out projects — including both ground-up builds and warehouse/industrial conversions
• Demonstrable commercial awareness: able to read a cost plan, challenge a contractor's numbers, and manage a budget with confidence — without being a qualified QS
• Strong experience managing D&B contractors and fit-out contractors as the client-side PM
• Confident coordinating multidisciplinary teams of external consultants — architects, planning consultants, building control — keeping them aligned and on programme without doing their job for them
• Ability to produce basic site feasibility schematics to support early-stage site assessment
• Ability to manage construction programmes confidently
• Excellent supplier and contractor management skills including direct procurement of FF&E and specialist packages
• Strong communicator — able to give clear, concise programme and cost updates to senior stakeholders
• Highly organised, self-sufficient, and comfortable managing multiple schemes concurrently
• A natural pushback instinct — you spot when something isn't right and you say so, constructively

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