Introduction
Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.
We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.
Overview
The Real Estate Project Manager for the EMEA and APAC regions plays a crucial role in overseeing and executing property projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.
This position demands a strategic thinker with a proven track record in managing complex real estate projects, including fit-outs and relocations, while adhering to Gallagher's governance and procurement policies. The role requires close collaboration with various teams to ensure seamless project delivery, effective contract negotiation, and vendor management.
If you are an experienced Real Estate Project Manager, we want to hear from you. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, the ability to work autonomously in a dynamic environment, and a commitment to promoting Gallagher's values and sustainability initiatives.
How you'll make an impact
- Manage all aspects of project delivery, budgeting, cost estimates, and handover for the EMEA and APAC regions.
- Collaboration with Real Estate Transaction Teams: Work closely with Real Estate transaction teams to support the strategic delivery of projects for the occupying Gallagher business.
- Design Transformation Management: Liaise with and manage design transformation resources, sharing knowledge, experience, and best practices as needed.
- Reporting and Presentations: Design and populate reports and presentations, circulate drafts to involved parties for feedback, and ensure timely delivery.
- Contract Negotiation and Vendor Selection: Conduct contract negotiations, tender processes, and vendor selection in line with Procurement policy.
- Project Monitoring: Monitor projects to ensure all valuations and contractual obligations are met before recommending approval of valuation or retention payments to management.
- Progress Tracking: Regularly track the progress of each project, re-prioritizing as necessary. Manage the inception and initiation of multiple projects, outline the project approach, and resource requirements. Keep the Project Owner informed of progress and gather sufficient information to make well-informed decisions or recommendations.
- Facilities Coordination: Work with Facilities teams (or local teams depending on the territory) to facilitate the smooth handover of offices with the required regulatory, operational, and maintenance documentation.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with Gallagher governance, policies, and processes for all project elements, including vendor selection, tendering, approval, and reporting.
- Professionalism and Integrity: Act with integrity and sensitivity at all times, maintaining discretion and utmost professionalism due to access to confidential information.
- Support the EMEA and APAC Real Estate team, handling day-to-day issues, workload management, reviews, and external suppliers.
- Demonstrate leadership on the delivery of Projects, promoting positive behaviours, and upholding the Gallagher Way.
- Liaise with the Facilities and Business Continuity teams on health & safety, physical security, business continuity planning, and incident management to ensure continued operations and client services.
- Support the development and internal promotion of Gallagher Real Estate Projects team and wider Real Estate function to improve service delivery, manage escalations, and address complaints
- Support project management budgeting, change programmes and manage reporting responsibilities.
- Handle project-specific budget, cash flow, and progress reporting.
- Achieve cost savings and emissions reductions through the reuse of equipment and procurement practices.
- Actively apply Gallagher values and behaviours when providing advice and guidance on all cases.
About You
- A proven track record in the building and fit out in corporate real estate setting
- Proven experience of managing a complex project programme
- Ability to negotiate and influence whilst building and maintaining effective relationships with colleagues at all levels.
- Demonstrable full life-cycle project manager experience, along with capability of leading complex, large-scale projects.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving complex environment
- Comfortable working autonomously and across multiple tasks
- Work to tight deadlines and able to turn work around within a short time
- The ability to deliver service excellence and deal with difficult situations
- Financial services sector experience (especially insurance broking sector) is desirable but not essential
- Travel (primarily within EMEA) and infrequently to APAC
- Project Management PMP, MSP or Prince 2 certification desirable.
- Business degree or similar would be an advantage.
- Eligibility to work in the UK
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
