Property Development Manager

The PureGym Way

The PureGym Group is a global gym business with a community of more than 700 gyms and over 2 million members. At PureGym, everything we do comes back to one simple idea: helping you feel good.

We're proud of our people and have a strong focus on internal progression. Championing diversity, we are committed to providing an excellent employee experience and workplace culture. As such, we are a Disability Confident Committed employer, and offer interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria for a role, and opt-in to the scheme on their application form.

Our gyms are friendly, supportive, and judgement-free spaces where everybody can come in, work out and leave Feeling PureGym Good. We are proud to be certified by Top Employers Institute. See our careers page for full benefits.

We offer

Free nationwide gym membership for you + 1

Hybrid working

A truly flexible working culture

Personal private healthcare, including digital GP

Life insurance x4

Company pension contribution

25 days annual leave, plus 1 personal day

Option to purchase additional holiday (up to 5 days)

Great learning & development resources

Enhanced maternity pay, paternity and adoption leave

 

The Role

Location:  Contracted to the London office. Tuesdays in the office and 1-2 days visiting sites.  We are looking for candidates who are based in the South/East, London, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, home counties etc areas due to the location of the sites we have there.
Contract type: Full-time and permanent

Application closing date: 23 October 2026

 

Our Team is Growing! We are looking for a Property Development Manager to join our Team! Reporting to the Property Delivery Director, 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 Development team to develop a culture of best practice and continuous improvement.

 

The Role

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.

Ensuring the site handover specification is clearly agreed and documented with the landlord. 

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.

Inputting 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.

 

Qualifications & Skills

Highly capable 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.

Experience of liaising with Landlords to negotiate handover specifications, and LTA requirements.

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, 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.

 

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. 

Please note: Qualifications and Skills represent the essential criteria for the role, which need to be met to be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. Volume of eligible applications may impact everyone being able to be offered an interview.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the advert may be withdrawn at any time. Early application is encouraged.

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