BIG’s Copenhagen headquarters is looking for a Project Manager (Urban Design / Masterplanning).
Reporting to the Partner in Charge, you will lead the day-to-day management of urban design and masterplanning projects—driving delivery, coordination, commercial performance, and stakeholder alignment across large, multi-layered scopes.
You will be central to shaping a reliable delivery structure around ambitious design work: managing schedules and deliverables, orchestrating inputs across disciplines, tracking scope and assumptions, and ensuring the team can focus on high-quality outcomes with clear priorities and governance.
Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Planning

• Develop, manage, and maintain project schedules, milestones, and deliverable plans across phases.
• Set up and manage deliverables lists and trackers (reports, drawings, diagrams, frameworks, guidelines); coordinate internal review rhythms and deadlines.
• Ensure scope and deliverables reflect agreed masterplan requirements (framework plans, land use, density/FAR logic, mobility, public realm structure, phasing, guidelines).

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, Authority & Consultant Coordination

• Lead day-to-day client and collaborator coordination; run meetings, drive actions, and maintain a clear decision trail.
• Coordinate cross-discipline inputs typical to masterplanning (transport/mobility, infrastructure, environment, landscape, economics, GIS/data) and ensure they integrate coherently.
• Structure feedback cycles (stakeholder/authority rounds): comment logs, response plans, package updates, and narrative continuity.

Governance, QA/QC & Reporting

• Run weekly project leadership check-ins to align scope, risks, decisions, and next actions.
• Coordinate QA/QC planning 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. .
• Comfortable managing multi-stakeholder processes and integrating technical and strategic inputs into a coherent masterplan delivery structure.
• 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 managing urban design and/or masterplanning projects (city districts, large sites, regeneration frameworks, mixed-use plans).
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary consultant teams and manage stakeholder feedback cycles.
• Experience tracking masterplan metrics and assumptions (density/FAR, land use schedules, mobility frameworks, phasing) and maintaining consistency across packages.

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.