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The PureGym Group is a leading gym operator headquartered in the UK, boasting over 600 locations and more than 2 million members worldwide. We're thrilled to announce our expansion into the United States! Our commitment to providing high-quality, affordable gyms for everyone, everywhere, remains unwavering.

Our mission to inspire healthier nations has made us the UK's favorite gym, and now, an international success story. With our unique "Everybody Welcome" approach, we create a friendly, warm, and inclusive environment for all our employees and members. We offer:

• UHC Medical Cover
• Dental Cover
• Vision Cover
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Lyra EAP
• Life Assurance
• Voluntary Supplemental Life Assurance
• Short-term Disability Coverage
• Statutory NY and NJ Disability Coverage
• Voluntary Accident
• Voluntary Critical Illness
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity
• MetLife ID Theft
• MetLife Legal
• Principle 401k Retirement

The Role

Location: New York Type: Full Time Contract type: Permanent Starting salary $100k/yr

We are looking for a Construction Manager to join our Team! Reporting to the Director of Construction, you will be fully accountable for the successful end-to-end project delivery of all allocated property development projects, covering both new and existing sites, achieving this through directing and working with a local scrum team, partnering with the wider Development and PureGym teams, and all external stakeholders. In addition, to contribute to the Construction team to develop a culture of best practice and continuous improvement.

Through effective project leadership, lead a multi-disciplinary team of architects, design managers, quantity surveyors and other internal and external specialists to deliver multiple gym development projects on time and budget. Activities to include:

• Assessing the high-level feasibility of potential new sites prior to acquisition.
• Providing the appropriate technical evaluation of each site and corresponding development requirements.
• Ensuring all budgets and capex investments are appropriately approved and expenditure is tracked and reported in line with Finance requirements.
• Ensuring effective delivery of each development site, from initial acquisition through to opening, delivering the required project outcomes on time, to cost and quality requirements, including all documentation and handover requirements. Overcome barriers to ensure projects are delivered at the earliest viable opportunity.
• Providing appropriate decision making at key stages in the property development process, using governance forums where required.
• Ensuring approvals and consents are in place through effectively liaising with landlords and local authorities.
• Management of all 3rd parties and associated dependencies involved in the development project.
• Ensuring consistent delivery of every new and refurbished site through adherence to agreed format and design standards.
• Ensuring relevant specialist technical input regarding mechanical, electrical, acoustics etc. is incorporated into the design and delivery of each site.
• Input into the continuous improvement of gym formats and design standards.
• Ensuring health and safety requirements are being observed and adhered to throughout the development process.
• Providing recognition, support and encouragement to your peers to ensure all team objectives are met.
• Ensuring a personal development plan is in place.
• Positively representing the Construction function internally and being an ambassador for PureGym externally.
• Being recognised as someone who makes a significant contribution across the Construction function.

The Person

• Highly capable construction project manager, with experience of delivering multi-site property developments consistently and at scale.
• A fantastic team leader, able to motivate a multi-disciplinary team to deliver exceptional results.
• Able to ruthlessly prioritise and deliver to hit critical milestones, with the ability to develop different approaches to overcome risks and blockages.
• Ideally has experience working in or with large scale organisations in customer facing industries such as leisure, hospitality, or retail.
• Experience of managing third party contractors and advisers to deliver required results.
• A highly capable operator, who can successfully resolve difficult situations and make critical decisions under pressure.
• Proactive, accountable, hands-on, adaptable and able to react quickly to a fast moving, ever changing environment.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to simply convey complex messages and influence at a senior level. A strong negotiator.
• Commercially astute, able to evaluate investment decisions considering member and brand expectations balanced with the required levels of return.
• Member focused, always striving to improve the experience for all members through own area or working across the business.
• Process orientated, with the ability to identify and remove waste through applying lean thinking.
• Able to work cross-functionally, to bring together all parts of the business to deliver the right outcome for members and PureGym.
• Ideally holds a professional qualification in the areas of construction project management, quantity surveying, architecture or similar.
• Ideally educated to degree level and can demonstrate a track record of continual professional and personal development.
• Ideally has a passion for, or an interest in, fitness and leisure.
• Able to travel as required.

A PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is 'Everybody Welcome' and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work. From a hiring standpoint, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to ensuring that our PureGym colleagues reflect the diversity of the nation as well as our millions of gym members we serve.