Senior Project Manager | Property

Job Requisition ID: 40793 

About the job

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) leads the successful delivery of complex projects from inception through construction, taking full accountability for achieving Deloitte’s objectives across time, cost, quality and stakeholder outcomes. The role provides strategic guidance to clients, Partners and project teams, ensuring robust governance, proactive risk management and seamless execution throughout the project lifecycle.

In addition to core project delivery, Senior Project Managers play a key role in front-end development management activities, shaping project strategy, guiding design and approvals, and influencing commercial outcomes.

About the team

The Infrastructure & Project Solutions team are focused on advising on some of the largest and most high-profile infrastructure projects and programs, as well as complex government services contracts. Our work spans the infrastructure lifecycle from policy and strategy development, to preparation of compelling complex business cases through to managing design and procurement, delivery phase contract administration to close transactions. We work across a range of sectors including residential, commercial office, transport, social infrastructure such as education, sports & recreation, as well as power and utilities infrastructure and precincts & urban renewal.

About the role

As a Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Lead the development and governance of the master program, ensuring clear direction, performance monitoring and accountability across all project stakeholders.
• Oversee high-quality project reporting, providing accurate, timely insights to client and executive teams.
• Drive overall project performance across time, cost and quality, proactively managing risks, issues and corrective actions.
• Establish and maintain project management processes and documentation, ensuring compliance with best-practice standards.
• Shape and validate the design brief with the client, ensuring strategic alignment and delivery feasibility.
• Provide senior oversight of design development, challenging consultants and ensuring buildability, budget compliance and design quality.
• Drive value management initiatives to optimise scope, cost and commercial outcomes.
• Oversee mock-ups or display suites, ensuring alignment with project and client requirements.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary consultants, setting expectations, monitoring performance and resolving issues.
• Advise and support clients and specialist advisors, ensuring streamlined communication and alignment to project objectives.
• Represent the client in all major coordination forums, leading engagement with consultants, builders and suppliers.
• Champion clear, effective communication across design teams, authorities and delivery partners.
• Set and oversee the approvals strategy, ensuring timely lodgement, negotiation and resolution of authority requirements.
• Own project financial governance, including budget management, cost control, forecasting and reporting.
• Identify and manage commercial risks, ensuring the project maintains financial integrity.
• Lead commissioning and project close-out strategies, ensuring practical completion, defect resolution and comprehensive close-out reporting.
• Oversee variation and change management, ensuring accurate assessment, negotiation and integration into overall project budgets.
• Lead procurement and tender processes, developing strategy, evaluating submissions and recommending preferred contractors.
• Guide contract negotiation and execution, ensuring commercial clarity and compliance with client objectives.
• Finalise all contracts and consultant appointments post-approval, ensuring seamless mobilisation of delivery partners.

About your Experience

To succeed in this role you will need to have:

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g., property, project management, construction, real estate or related fields),
• Significant industry experience in property, development or major project delivery, with a proven track record leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Experience in high rise projects including residential, commercial and mixed use
• Deep understanding of the full development and project delivery lifecycle, from design and approvals through to procurement, construction and completion.
• Strong capability in program management, project controls, financial oversight and risk management.
• Highly proficient with project management and digital collaboration tools, including MS Project and advanced Excel.
• Demonstrated alignment to Deloitte’s values, with a commitment to high standards, integrity and collaboration.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence and negotiate at senior levels.
• Confident, sound professional judgement, with the ability to provide clear recommendations and lead decision-making.
• Committed to continuous improvement and team development.
• Experienced in navigating complex stakeholders and high-pressure environments with professionalism and resilience.

Why Deloitte? 

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   

 We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  

We support flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.  

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.