Bristol , South West

Project Manager – Healthcare Lead

Full Time , Permanent

Reference number: CON02569

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Project Manager – Healthcare Lead

Willmott Dixon is seeking a Construction Project Manager with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex healthcare construction projects. Following our appointment to the New Hospital Programme Alliance Framework, we have secured access to a significant pipeline of NHS capital investment projects, representing an exciting period of growth and opportunity across our Wales & West business.


Based within our Bristol team, you will play a key role in developing and expanding Willmott Dixon's healthcare portfolio, working with NHS trusts and wider healthcare partners to secure future opportunities, help shape our healthcare growth strategy and take ownership of project delivery, on-site execution, and successful project completion.


This unique role offers the opportunity to influence the full project lifecycle while helping to establish Willmott Dixon as a leading delivery partner within the healthcare sector across the region.

Responsibilities

Customer Engagement and Business Growth



  • Build and maintain strong relationships across NHS Trusts, Health Boards, Integrated Care Systems, consultants, and key stakeholders to identify, influence, and secure healthcare opportunities.

  • Support business development and work-winning activities through early project engagement, market intelligence, networking, and representation at industry events and healthcare forums.

  • Contribute to the growth of Willmott Dixon's healthcare portfolio by helping shape regional strategy and maintaining a strong pipeline of opportunities.


Work Winning and Preconstruction



  • Provide healthcare sector expertise to support bid, proposal, and pre-construction activities, ensuring high-quality submissions that reflect clinical, operational, and compliance requirements.

  • Work closely with regional and national healthcare teams to develop winning strategies, share best practice, and strengthen our market position.


Project Delivery



  • Lead the safe, successful, and profitable delivery of healthcare construction projects from pre-construction through to completion and handover.

  • Develop and implement project strategies, programmes, and delivery plans, ensuring projects are delivered to agreed quality, commercial, design, safety, environmental, and social value objectives.

  • Monitor performance, manage risks and opportunities, and work collaboratively with project teams and supply chain partners to drive excellent outcomes for clients.



  • Manage the operational aspects of the project to achieve the budget, including holding supply chain partners accountable and celebrating shared or individual success


Leadership



  • Inspire, develop, and motivate project teams, creating a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

  • Lead by example, empowering others to achieve exceptional standards and supporting the ongoing development of future talent within the business.

Essential Criteria


  • Proven track record of leading the successful delivery of healthcare construction projects, such as hospitals, clinical areas, and wards, with scheme values totalling £15 million pounds and over

  • Good understanding of healthcare procurement routes and frameworks with established preconstruction experience

  • Experience of leading tender interviews

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills

  • Experience using systems such as Microsoft Suite and ASTA Power Projects (or similar)

  • Accurate interpretation of contract documents, programmes, drawings, and technical specifications

  • Understanding and appropriately sharing of build programmes

  • History of managing teams including the supply chain, direct reports, and consultants

  • Minimum relevant level 4 qualification (HNC/NVQ4 etc)

  • Appropriate CSCS Card, SMSTS, and First Aid at Work certificate.

  • Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the region when required

Desirable Criteria


  • Experience with project delivery on NHS ProCure23 (P23), ProCure24 (P24), SCF (Southern Construction Framework), Pagabo, or New Hospital Programme Alliance Frameworks.

  • Relevant degree

  • MCIOB or working towards

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working.


We are a disability confident employer.


We reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full private medical for you and a partner, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. This role will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon’s purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive.


Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe’s 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.

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