Director, Project Management - Southern Region (Industrial/Data Center/Commercial)

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

• Establishes and maintains a client-focused environment. Builds and maintains strong relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Identifies new/enhanced services that add value to the client service. Proactively takes strategic ideas and opportunities to key clients.
• Puts mechanisms in place to control commercial risk. Owns operational and strategic plans to ensure commercial goals are achieved, risks defined and projects are on target.
• Highly confident communicator at all levels of seniority within and outside the business. Influences internal and external senior managers and is recognised as a credible sounding board.
• Provides strategic leadership and technical, operational, financial, and managerial leadership for successful implementation of project activities.
• Sets and leads the acceptable levels of performance. Actively monitors any risks that may threaten Turner & Townsend’s brand and market position and puts relevant measures in place. Proactively seeks streamlining opportunities through implementation of new systems.
• Solves unusual, complex or challenging client problems. Makes definitive judgements and identifies clear solutions from broad, complex or ambiguous situations.
• Delivers an exciting team vision, which inspires others to perform beyond their initial aspirations. Confronts and eliminates challenges and barriers to the effective operation of the team. Promotes an inclusive and consultative approach to team management, encouraging and recognising positive contribution from the individual.

Qualifications

• Degree qualifications in project management or similar function.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in project management with proven leadership experience in setting up a team.
• Experience and knowledge of all of the main project management concepts, tools and techniques.
• Experience in managing contractors in pre and post contract stages and managing tendering process will be preferred.
• Experience of leading project management commissions for medium to large sized general construction projects of medium to large complexity.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced and high pressure environment, to meet often tight deadlines, and to work pro-actively as part of a committed team.
• Working knowledge of MS Project and MS Office suite of products.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/