Senior Project Manager - Data Centres

Location: Luxembourg
Soben, part of Accenture

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At Soben, part of Accenture , we believe our greatest strength is our people. Your growth is central to our success, and we are committed to helping you build a career you can be proud of.

As an award-winning construction consultancy, Soben has built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Following our acquisition by Accenture in 2025, we have become part of Accenture's Infrastructure & Capital Projects practice within Industry X, combining specialist construction expertise with global scale, digital innovation, and industry-leading project delivery capabilities.

This creates exciting opportunities for our people:

Access to world-class technology and digital project delivery tools
Opportunities to work on some of the world's most complex data centre and mission-critical projects
Exposure to international clients and global project teams
Accelerated career development within a growing global organisation
A platform to drive innovation in the delivery of capital projects

Whether through mentoring, formal training, international project exposure, or leadership opportunities, every step of your career journey is an opportunity to grow and make a meaningful impact.

The Opportunity

Soben, part of Accenture, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our growing Data Centre team in Luxembourg .

This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the world's leading technology and hyperscale clients, delivering large-scale, ground-up data centre developments across Luxembourg and the wider European region.

You will be responsible for managing projects from inception through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring successful delivery against client objectives for cost, schedule, quality, safety, and operational performance.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in construction project management, excellent stakeholder management skills, and experience delivering complex capital projects in either the data centre, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, commercial, or related sectors.

Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership

Act as the key client interface throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide strategic advice during project inception and feasibility stages.
Establish project success criteria, including programme, cost, quality, technical, safety, and operational objectives.
Lead multidisciplinary project teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Drive project performance and foster collaborative working relationships across all stakeholders.

Programme & Delivery Management

Lead the development and management of detailed project execution plans.
Manage project delivery from concept through commissioning and final handover.
Monitor progress against key milestones and proactively manage project risks and opportunities.
Ensure project objectives are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters.
Coordinate designers, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and client teams throughout project delivery.

Governance & Controls

Establish effective project governance structures, processes, and reporting procedures.
Monitor project performance through relevant KPIs and performance metrics.
Manage project change control processes and stakeholder approvals.
Ensure robust reporting frameworks are implemented and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
Oversee project documentation, reporting, and communication processes.

Commercial & Financial Management

Advise clients on procurement strategies and resource requirements.
Monitor project budgets, forecasts, and financial performance.
Work closely with commercial and cost management teams to maintain financial control.
Support risk management and contingency planning activities.
Provide commercial insight and recommendations to support client decision-making.

Health, Safety & Quality

Promote and maintain the highest standards of health, safety, and environmental performance.
Ensure effective quality management processes are implemented across all project stages.
Monitor compliance with project-specific and regulatory requirements.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Client & Stakeholder Management

Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and key stakeholders.
Lead project meetings and ensure clear communication across all parties.
Provide regular project updates and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Act as a trusted advisor throughout project delivery.

Qualifications & Experience
Essential

Degree qualified in Construction Management, Project Management, Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
Extensive project management experience within a construction consultancy environment.
Proven experience delivering large-scale construction projects throughout the full project lifecycle.
Strong understanding of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams and external stakeholders.
Excellent commercial awareness and financial management capability.
Strong communication, leadership, and presentation skills.
Ability to work effectively within complex and fast-paced project environments.
Experience managing clients and senior stakeholders at strategic and operational levels.

Preferred

Experience delivering data centre, mission-critical, industrial, or major infrastructure projects.
Chartered status (MRICS, MAPM, MCIOB, CEng, or equivalent), or actively working towards professional accreditation.
Experience working with international clients and multidisciplinary teams.
Knowledge of Luxembourg construction regulations and project delivery practices.
Fluency in English, with French and/or German language skills considered advantageous.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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