H&m Construction Project Manager

Company Description
**Do you want to join H&M on a journey, changing the way we define a seamless customer experience? If you feel that you have a genuine passion for growing businesses and see yourself in a role contributing to added customer value, a strong brand and digital growth. Then join us and take part in changing the way we work with omni.**

H&M is on a journey to again become a truly customer focused company. The goal is to create clear ownership, fuel our salesmanship, enable speed and build on our passion for the customer throughout the organization. We´re putting our passion for the customer at center, upgrading the customer experience and taking it to the next level. We´re changing our way of working to be able to offer our customers a seamless shopping experience on their own terms - where they want and when they want it. This means that we need to accelerate our omni customer experience and put omni at the core of our business.

The Expansion function is here to support in adding meaningful growth. We are responsible, in partnership with our brands, for all aspects of creating and maintaining our real estate portfolio: we lease, design, draw, buy, build, and maintain each store and constantly follow up on the existing portfolio to ensure high profitability. We add new stores and optimize the current portfolio through rebuilds, extensions, renegotiations, relocations, and consolidations.

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**Construction Project Manager - Italy - Maternity Cover**

**Job Description**:
As Construction Project Manager you lead, manage and organize construction projects with a high level of professionalism and according to routines, company policies, guidelines and local legislation.

You are comfortable managing several stakeholders and various projects and tasks simultaneously.

You have the ability to prioritize, especially in circumstances where you are put under pressure and with tight deadlines.

You have strong communication skills and high sense of urgency, understanding business needs and requirements.

Through strong teamwork and clear communication, you secure that relevant stakeholders receive needed information on time.

**Your responsibilities**:
**Routines, Policies & Guidelines**
- Secure value engineering and value planning on each step of the project process
- Secure that contractors and partners are working in line with the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
- Organize regular meetings with business partners & reinforce the importance of our policies and overall expectations
- Secure that the stores are built in line with the general/local building specifications, instructions & interior specifications
- Secure that Health & Safety requirements are in place and followed
- Secure internal routines and strengthen communication between departments in respect to projects’ planning and execution

**Budgets and Business Cases**
- Use value planning in all processes, lower costs but maintain high quality
- Secure investment budget and follow up on both Net & Gross investments
- Prepare and present budgets and business cases
- Secure detailed research & preparation for budgets according to the 5 Step Process
- Optimize project planning in order to minimize installation, labour and other costs
- Secure that forecasted figures are matching actuals & final invoicing of projects in IPS
- Optimize planning and follow up tools, drive improvement actions and share best practice with colleagues
- Understand change orders & their origins, challenge them and provide alternative solutions

**Financial transparency & follow up**
- Ensure invoices are reflecting the contractual amounts and that payments are made according to invoice schedule
- Run projects in line with routines and secure financial transparency for all projects
- Follow up on the payment of landlord contributions
- Keep project budget within forecasted figures and challenge change orders if they occur
- Update IPS/LIMA on a regular basis
- Secure that project documentation is in place and saved according to guidelines

**Tendering & Contracting**
- Partner with regional procurement specialist, C&F manager and Business Controller C&F in order to determine budgets, conduct tenders, evaluate bids and select contractors
- Support procurement specialist in prequalifying new companies on a regular basis according to PQQ guidelines and secure a solid pool of contractors
- Review contracts and secure that project/country specific risks are covered; secure that execution and payments schedules are attached and that the contracts are signed according to approval rights
- Ensure that contracts and/or appendixes to frame contracts are signed prior work commencement
- Follow up on contractual milestones and notify contractors in case contractual obligations are breached

**Design, Execution & Logistics**
- Ensure that the stores ar