Project Manager/QS

High-End Residential

London, UK

A highly regarded, Central London-based project advisory studio is looking for a Project Manager to join its team.

JOB SUMMARY:

A highly regarded, Central London-based project advisory studio is looking for a Project Manager to join its team. The practice operates exclusively within the prime and super-prime residential sector, working on behalf of private clients, UHNWIs, and family offices across high-value schemes typically ranging from £5m to £50m+.

This is an unusual role in the best sense: it combines genuine project management rigour with a strong commercial dimension. The successful candidate will be expected to bring a real understanding of cost — not just as a line item, but as a framework — and to help build out an internal costing structure from the ground up. You will need to be equally comfortable in a client meeting and in a spreadsheet.

The studio strives to bring confidence and ease to their clients as they move through the process of pre-purchase, retrofit, move-in, and maintenance. The people who thrive here are precise, polished, and genuinely motivated by delivering excellent work — not just managing process

What You Will Be Doing:

• Building and embedding an internal costing structure to bring QS in-house, including establishing the systems, templates, and processes the studio needs to manage cost intelligence consistently across projects.

• Working closely with the wider delivery team to ensure cost plans are robust, interrogated, and commercially meaningful.

• Acting as primary client representative on flagship projects, chairing meetings and coordinating multidisciplinary consultant teams including architects, interior designers, engineers, and contractors.

• Producing accurate, senior-level reporting for clients and internal stakeholders across risk, cost, programme, and quality.

• Reviewing fee proposals, procurement strategies, duty matrices, and consultant scopes.

• Contributing to operational strategy and the continuous improvement of delivery frameworks across the studio.

• Supporting business development through delivery expertise in pitches and project appraisals.

What We Are Looking For:

This role sits at the intersection of project management and quantity surveying. We are looking for someone who understands both disciplines well — ideally someone who has operated across both, or who has a strong PM background with a genuine command of cost.

• 5 to 8 years of experience in project management within prime or super-prime residential — this sector experience is essential.

• A real understanding of cost management: structuring cost plans, interrogating QS outputs, and building frameworks that can be embedded into a business.

• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary consultant teams end-to-end, with strong procurement and contract knowledge.

• Polished, credible, and confident with senior stakeholders and UHNW clients — you present well and communicate clearly.

• Detail-oriented and rigorous: you take governance seriously and bring structure to everything you touch.

• Comfortable with ambiguity — this role involves building something new, and you will need to be self-directed and pragmatic.

• RICS qualification (AssocRICS or MRICS) is preferred; a strong PM/QS background with demonstrable cost management experience will also be considered.

• High commercial literacy and the ability to interrogate budgets and benchmarks with confidence.

What’s on Offer:

• Salary £60,000–£80,000 depending on experience.

• A senior, high-impact position in a studio operating at the very top of the residential market.

• Direct involvement in building out an internal function with genuine commercial importance.

• A high-calibre, close-knit team with a strong culture of quality, rigour, and professionalism.

• Central London office, hybrid working (4 days in office, 1 day from home).

• Projects that are genuinely interesting: complex, high-value, and designed.