TitleSenior Landscape Architect (role: Project Manager)

Job description

Our Landscape Department at BIG’s Copenhagen headquarters is looking for a Project Manager (Landscape).
Reporting to the Partner in Charge, you will lead the day-to-day management of landscape projects—driving delivery, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring strong commercial and operational performance across all phases.
You will be the key integrator between design, technical delivery, consultants, and client teams—creating clarity around scope, schedule, resourcing, and priorities, while protecting BIG’s design ambition through structured planning and follow-through.

Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Planning

• Develop, manage, and maintain project schedules, milestones, and deliverable plans across phases.
• Set up and manage the deliverables/drawing list and submission tracker; ensure deadlines are met at the right quality level.
• Coordinate internal workflows and decision points with Design and Technical Leads to avoid rework and maintain momentum.

Scope, Fee & Commercial Management

• Track scope, deliverables, and change impacts; flag risks and opportunities early and escalate as needed.
• Monitor fee burn, resource forecasts, and time registration; collaborate with Project Controlling on reporting, invoicing workflow, and financial performance.
• Ensure technical or design changes are assessed for cost/schedule impact before commitments are made.

Stakeholder & Consultant Coordination

• Lead day-to-day coordination with clients, collaborators, and sub-consultants; set agendas, drive actions, and maintain clear communication.
• Plan and coordinate landscape-specific consultant inputs with the project team.
• Maintain structured records: meeting notes, decision logs, action lists, and comment trackers.

Quality, Governance & Reporting

• Run weekly project leadership check-ins to align scope, risks, decisions, and next actions.
• Oversee QA/QC approach together with technical leadership; ensure reviews happen at the right time and comments are closed out.
• Issue regular project updates and reporting to leadership and client teams; ensure consistency in documentation and templates.

Team Leadership & Resourcing

• Structure team workplans and task assignments; coordinate staffing needs with the staffing team.
• Support a healthy, high-performing project culture—clear priorities, realistic planning, and effective delegation.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong project planning, prioritization, and delivery discipline in design-led environments.
• Good understanding of project contracts and deliverables.
• Strong commercial awareness: fee burn, scope control, resourcing, and clear reporting.
• Skilled at coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and landscape consultants; able to drive accountability across stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• High proficiency with project management tools and structured documentation workflows (schedules, trackers, action logs, reporting).

Qualifications & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in project management within landscape architecture / public realm.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, deliverables, and stakeholder groups across design phases.
• Experience coordinating specialist inputs relevant to landscape delivery (planting/ecology, irrigation, civil/drainage, lighting, etc.) is highly valued.

BIG offers:

• International group of architects, technologists, engineers and specialists with more than 45 different nationalities
• Great variety of company discounts
• Salary and pension scheme based on experience and qualifications
• Flexible lunch options
• Possibility of further education

Application:
Please upload your CV and portfolio. As we are excited to welcome our new colleague to our team, we are looking to fill this position as soon as possible. Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, and the job ad will be taken down when the right candidate has been found.

Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.