Senior Project Consultant (Estates Strategy & Asset Management)

Eric Wright; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused consultancy based in Preston is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead key healthcare estates projects. In this role, you will manage project delivery, budgets, and client relationships while ensuring quality throughout. The ideal candidate will have a degree or extensive experience in asset management, strong communication skills, and a full UK driving licence. This position provides an opportunity to work collaboratively within a supportive environment and make a real difference in public service delivery.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Hybrid working model

Enhanced Paid Family Leave

Health Plans – optional

Onsite gym

Qualifications

• Degree-qualified or 5+ years’ relevant asset management experience.
• Strong knowledge of LIFT / PFI and public-sector environments.
• Confident and resilient communicator able to engage senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own transport.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver projects, managing budgets, programmes, and commercial performance.
• Act as lead consultant and main client contact on strategic estates and capital projects.
• Develop new opportunities in line with the business plan.
• Champion high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Time management

Education

Degree in relevant field or 5+ years’ relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Our business is truly special; part of the Eric Wright Group, and wholly owned by the Eric Wright Charitable Trust, we are a commercially focused business with a social purpose. Forward thinking and people focussed, we retain our traditional values and are extremely proud of our dedicated, passionate and friendly colleagues who live our values and work hard to make a difference every day. Our business would not be the business it is today without its people, we strive to develop and nurture talent, provide a positive healthy environment empowering our people to be the best they can be.

What You’ll Do

You will play a senior role within the consultancy team, leading key projects that provide strategic healthcare estates advice, robust business cases, and effective programme and project management solutions. Working alongside local NHS systems and wider public sector partners, you will help shape estates strategies that support long-term service delivery and community needs.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead and deliver projects, managing budgets, programmes, and commercial performance

• Act as lead consultant and main client contact on strategic estates and capital projects

• Develop new opportunities in line with the business plan

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external advisors

• Ensure strong project governance, reporting, and risk management

• Build and maintain trusted client and stakeholder relationships

• Represent the business professionally at meetings and events

• Champion high-quality delivery and client satisfaction

• Comply with company policies and support business growth

What You’ll Bring

• Degree-qualified or 5+ years’ relevant asset management experience
• Strong knowledge of LIFT / PFI and public-sector environments
• Experience working across health, social care, education, or wider public sector
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and lead teams to tight deadlines
• Confident, resilient communicator able to engage and influence senior stakeholders
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to work independently
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and time management
• Confident user of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Adaptable, with the ability to learn new systems and ways of working
• Full UK driving licence and access to own transport

Desirable

• Experience preparing estates strategies and business cases (HM Treasury Green Book)
• Better Business Cases qualification
• QS experience or qualifications
• Membership of a relevant professional body (or working towards)
• Understanding of national healthcare policy and service planning

Our Values

• Integrity – We’re transparent, honest, and accountable. We build trust and deliver lasting impact.
• Excellence – We go beyond expectations with expertise, determination, and attention to detail.
• Respect – We’re inclusive, compassionate, and professional. Every voice matters.
• Innovation – We think differently, solve problems creatively, and embrace a “can do” attitude.

How You’ll Work

• Be authentic – Say what you mean, keep your promises, and build trust
• Be accountable – Own your work, celebrate success, and learn from setbacks
• Belong – Be part of something bigger, rooted in community and purpose
• Be the best you can – Give your all, ask for support, and grow with us
• Be motivated – Strive for excellence and take charge of your development
• Be safe – Look after yourself and others—safe people, safe place
• Be inclusive – Treat everyone with fairness, respect, and equality
• Be empathetic – Listen deeply and value every voice
• Be open – Share feedback, celebrate strengths, and speak up for what’s right
• Be collaborative – Offer support, share knowledge, and learn from others
• Be inspiring – Lead with positivity, embrace innovation, and foster teamwork
• Be bold – Speak up, be curious, and help shape the future

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a business that exists to make a difference
• Thrive in a healthy, empowering environment
• Work with passionate, dedicated colleagues who live our values
• Enjoy real opportunities to grow and shape your future
• Good salary and benefits offer

Our offer

• Enhanced annual leavestarting at 26 Days + bank holidays rising with service
• Hybrid working - working in the office, at home or out with clients
• Enhanced Paid Family Leave - maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, compassion, bereavement, crisis, emergency dependants, and much more
• Learning and development - we offer a range of learning opportunities to develop talent at all levels within our business focussing on technical competence, upskilling, compliance and governance and career development.
• Pension — 6.5% employer contribution of your salary into your pension to help you save for the future
• BUPA -optional scheme and can include your family to the scheme (50% contribution)
• Group Income Protection – 50% of your salary covered for 3 years for long term illness
• Health Plans – optional, including dental, cash health plans and critical illness
• EAP – Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured, supporting you and your family with advice, guidance and counselling on a variety of areas such as health, fitness, home life, finances and much more.
• Mental Health support– through the Thrive app, approved by the NHS, provides tools, to tackle, prevent and manage common stressors such as sleep, bereavement, work issues etc. Also provides relaxation, breathing and meditation techniques and measures impact.
• Savings scheme – Put aside an affordable amount for a rainy day in the future
• Recognition awards – awards for long service and special birthdays
• Onsite gym – we have a gym on site at Head Office – free to use
• Company Doctor – for when you can’t get to see your own or if you have any health concerns
• A comprehensive health and wellbeing strategy focussed on physical, emotional, financial and career wellbeing
• A wide range of enhanced benefits to support your well‑being and work‑life balance

Our Ethos:

Working at the Eric Wright Group of companies is truly special. Owned 100% by the Eric Wright Charitable Trust, we are a commercially focused business with a social purpose, which means that after reinvestment in the business, our profit is donated to charity via the Trust. This ownership structure provides a high level of stability for the Group and supports longer‑term commercial and charitable strategies. Our reputation is built on our Chairman's founding principles of a company that must be profitable, ethical and farsighted, as a result we have people, community and social value at our heart. The companies across the Group regularly collaborate to deliver outstanding results on bespoke projects for both public and private sector clients.

We are extremely proud of our dedicated, passionate and friendly colleagues who live our values and work hard to make a difference in communities every day.

Equal opportunity statement:

At Eric Wright Group, our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, who share of values, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

Safeguarding if required

The Eric Wright Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of its employees, contractors and clients and expects its people to share this commitment. Successful applicants may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check or Disclosure Scotland check and to provide proof of their right to work in the UK. We are committed to equal opportunities, inclusion and fairness across all employment opportunities and service delivery. All managers and employees are expected to promote our values to ensure our workplaces and services are inclusive and accessible.