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Role Title: General Manager
Business Unit: Facilities Management - Small Works
Location: Glasgow, with travel across the UK as required
Role Overview
Galliford Try is seeking an experienced General Manager to provide leadership within its Small Works business, based from the Glasgow office. The successful candidate will have a strong operational awareness and a good understanding of the Commercial aspects of the businesswithin the construction industry and a proven ability to manage a team of Project Managers while providing robust commercial and financial support.
The role is focused on ensuring projects are delivered safely, profitably, and to a high standard, while developing people, driving consistency, and maintaining strong client communication.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers to deliver consistently high performance
- Embed best practice, company standards, and compliance across all Small Works projects
- Promote a strong culture focused on health & safety, quality, collaboration, accountability and compliance
- Establish and maintain excellent communications through all stakeholders
- Ensure consistent project delivery standards, processes, compliance and controls across all projects
- Act as escalation point for operational, client, and risk-related issues
- Ensure strong cost control, forecasting, and margin protection on all projects
- Able to support bid reviews, pricing strategy, and risk assessments for new works
- Promote commercial awareness and accountability within the Project Management team
- Supporting the day to day responsibility for the financial performance of Small Works projects
- Review and manage project budgets, cost forecasts, and CVRs
- Support contract administration and change management
- Support annual forecasting of all business related budgets
- Act as a key senior interface between project teams and the Directors of Galliford Try
- Provide accurate reporting to the Directors of Galliford Try
- Support client relationships and contribute to securing repeat and follow-on Small Works opportunities
About You:
- Strong understanding of construction contracts, cost control, and financial governance
- Commercially astute with strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills
- Willingness and ability to travel within the UK as required
- Proven experience in an operational leadership role within construction or small works delivery
- Strong commercial awareness with a track record of managing margins and financial performance
- Demonstrable people management experience across multi‑site or geographically dispersed teams
- Excellent understanding of project delivery, risk, and operational controls
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
- Ability to balance strategic oversight with hands‑on operational involvement
Desirable
- RICS or CIOB (or working towards)
- Degree in Construction / Engineering
- Strong NEC and JCT contract knowledge
- Strong commercial and financial acumen
Leadership capability
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Competitive family leave policy
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
- Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us:
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
Galliford Try is a leading UK Construction group. The business is split into four distinct divisions,
Infrastructure, Building, Environment and Specialist Services, covering a range of specialist work in water, highways, telecoms, security, commercial, custodial, education, health, interiors, and leisure, across both public and private sectors. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250. Our vision is to be leaders in the construction of a sustainable future.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact Skyemarie Bree – skyemarie.bree@gallifordtry.co.uk
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.”
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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