PFI Manager

Role: PFI Manager (Healthcare SPV)
Location: Durham
Contract: Permanent (4 days on site)
Salary: 50k-70k plus package
Overview
We are working with a well-established SPV on a complex healthcare project in Durham. The contract is approaching expiry, with significant activity underway as the asset progresses through the handback phase.
The PFI Manager will sit within a consultancy team supporting the SPV and the client, providing operational, technical, and commercial oversight. The appointed PFI Manager will act as the senior on-site lead for the SPV, driving operational performance, handback readiness, and maintaining strong, positive relationships with Trust stakeholders, funders, and service providers.
This is a challenging and high-profile role for an experienced PFI professional with handback exposure, strong healthcare knowledge, and the ability to manage complex stakeholder environments.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as the senior on-site PFI Manager representing the SPV, supporting the client through a complex healthcare PFI contract
* Lead handback preparation and execution, ensuring contractual, technical, and commercial obligations are met
* Build and maintain positive relationships with Trust stakeholders, funders, and FM partners, fostering collaboration and trust
* Oversee operational performance across hard and soft FM services, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and PFI standards
* Provide governance, reporting, and assurance to senior client stakeholders and the SPV
* Support commercial oversight, including financial performance, risk management, and value protection
* Coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams related to asset condition, lifecycle planning, and contract compliance
* Ensure robust documentation, audit trails, and readiness for formal handback processes
* Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing site culture alongside the on-site team
Essential Experience
* Proven experience in healthcare PFI environments, preferably acute hospital assets
* Hands-on PFI handback experience is essential
* Strong knowledge of asset management, lifecycle delivery, and compliance within live healthcare environments
* Experience managing operational performance across soft and hard FM services
* Demonstrable ability to build and maintain positive, long-term stakeholder relationships
* Commercially aware, able to support financial oversight and risk management
* Comfortable operating at a senior management level within a consultancy-client support model
Personal Attributes
* Credible, confident, and resilient PFI professional
* Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
* Detail-focused, structured, and highly organised
* Calm, authoritative, and solution-focused in high-pressure situations
* Hands-on, pragmatic, and outcomes-driven