Pre-Construction Manager

We're looking for a Pre-Construction Manager to join our property team at Co-op. In this role you'll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home, office and site visits (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy). We'll look to you to make sure that all projects that come through to pre-construction are delivered to the latest safety standards, fit for our strategy and safe for our colleagues and communities. You'll lead the delivery of all enabling work and budget costing on projects or construction workstreams, providing support in the transition to our construction teams. What you'll do

• Manage and deliver the activity for projects across the food, funeralcare and non-trading estates
• Be responsible for supporting project and programme governance meetings with senior management, and reporting on your workstream
• Make sure that the accurate risk, compliance, health and safety, and local authority planning procedures are in place
• Input and quality check information in business cases, lead end to end delivery, and maintain costs throughout
• Be accountable for making sure all projects are delivered to the latest safety standards and agreed ways of working
• Advise relevant partners on any issues or inherent risks within their portfolio, proactively looking for solutions or alternate choices
• Look for ways to continuously improve the way we deliver projects, and influencing future programmes to make sure we have the best engagement from conception to delivery
  
  Experience in construction delivery or previous pre-construction management
• Good understanding of CDM regulations and obligations
• Commercial acumen with a background of demonstrating commercial benefits
• The ability to manage work demand in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in managing and influencing key senior colleagues and external partners
• The ability to analyse, interpret and draw key insights from data and being able to translate this for a non-technical audience
  
  At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Private healthcare for you
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn