Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A senior project leader is sought to drive major hotel development and conversion projects from the pre-acquisition stage through operational handover. The role involves leading multidisciplinary teams, protecting substantial project budgets, managing complex critical paths, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, and to the required operational standards.
Highlights
Senior project leadership role focused on major hotel developments and acquisitions rather than routine refurbishment work. The position offers ownership of large capital projects from pre-acquisition through operational handover, with responsibility for multidisciplinary teams, budgets, schedules, quality, and safety.
Description
The Role Outline: The Executive Brief
As our Senior Project Manager, you are the commercial driving force behind our major hotel developments and acquisitions.
To be clear: this role does not cover standard refurbs or routine capital investment.
You will be taking ownership of massive, multi-million-pound new builds and hotel conversions, driving them from pre-acquisition exclusivity all the way to operational handover.
You will lead multidisciplinary teams, fiercely protect the budget, manage complex critical paths, and ensure our new assets are delivered safely, on time, and completely aligned with the Village brand.
Why Village?
At Village, we do hospitality a little differently.
We are all about personality, genuine connections, and creating truly unique hotel environments including lively spaces for our guests to work, eat, relax, and play.
We are entering an incredibly exciting period of commercial expansion, and we need a heavyweight project leader who thrives on commercial risk management and complex stakeholder alignment.
If you have the technical understanding and commercial rigour to build hotels from the ground up, we will give you the platform to leave a massive footprint on our growing portfolio.
Because it really does take a Village.
How The Village Thrives
We live our culture through three simple commitments:
We Can & We Do: We show up to make a genuine difference and do fantastic work every day, with purpose.We Will: Treat each other with respect and dignity.
No ego, no drama.
We try our best and look out for each other.We Care: We care about our impact on guests, the community, and each other.
Your Remit: What You Will Actually Be Doing
We Do Not Just Need Someone To Check Off a Snagging List; We Need a Highly Commercial Project Leader.
We Trust You To Handle
The Project Delivery: Owning the lifecycle.
You will lead major hotel conversions and new developments from inception to handover, defining project scope, managing schedules, and keeping the critical path entirely on track.The Commercial Control: Protecting the budget.
Working closely with our internal Quantity Surveyors and Capital Projects team, you will fiercely monitor expenditure, review detailed cost reports, and find smart value-engineering opportunities without ever compromising the brand.The Procurement & Contracts: Managing the partners.
You will execute procurement strategies, manage tender processes, administer construction contracts, and handle any variations or claims with absolute commercial sharpness.The Design & Stakeholder Alignment: Bridging the gap.
You will coordinate design development across all RIBA stages while seamlessly managing a massive network of internal executives, external architects, contractors, and local authorities to ensure a flawless operational handover.
How We Succeed Together
We do not micromanage.
It takes a village, so we believe in Ownership & Integrity, giving you the autonomy to take calculated risks, challenge assumptions, and advise the executive team.
We champion teamwork, hate corporate jargon, and desperately want you to succeed.
Selling Our Executive Package
The Compensation: A highly competitive basic salary of £70,000 to £75,000 & eligibility to join our discretionary bonus scheme, reflecting the commercial weight and strategic importance of this major development role.Health & Wealth: Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance (PMI) to keep you fully covered, alongside an enhanced executive pension scheme and life assurance.The Lifestyle: Complimentary full leisure club membership for you and a friend (worth £1,500 annually), plus a dedicated well-being programme and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.Hotel Stays & Time Off: Discounted stays from £35 based on two sharing across our 34 properties, plus a Holiday Purchase scheme to ensure you actually take a well earned break.Financial & Extras: Access to our Electric Car Salary Sacrifice scheme, flexible financial wellbeing support via Wagestream, High Street discounts, and your birthday off guaranteed.Food & Drink: 50% discount on Food and Drink purchased at any Village Hotel, whether you are having a working lunch or a weekend dinner.
Ready to Drive Our Expansion?
We are looking for a highly commercial Senior Project Manager with a proven track record in delivering major property developments, conversions, or hospitality builds.
If you know how to drive a complex project from pre-acquisition to handover and want to play a massive part in our growth story, we want to hear from you.
Bring your commercial rigour, your drive, and your ambition.
Hit apply, tell us why you love the reality of major project delivery, and let's see if our energies align.
