Associate Director - Commercial (Remote Location)

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.

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Job Description

NB: This role will be based in a remote location

Our pipeline of upcoming projects in Saudi Arabia is strong and we are looking for an Associate Director - Commercial with both infrastructure / real estate / energy & natural resources experience to join our team in Tabuk, KSA.

The Associate Director - Commercial will undertake a role supporting the Commercial Director on one of our prestigious multi-sector based projects. The primary focus of the role is to work with the Commercial Director and the team to grow existing client relationships, identify and secure new clients, and support and manage bids for new work.

Contribute to the diversification of the service offer to our clients. Support the Commercial Director to identify and recruit new team members and build teams to successfully deliver commissions. Lead programme and project management commissions, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery.

Act as the key, day-to-day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time, cost targets, and the appropriate quality standards. Manage commissions and resources efficiently to contribute to the overall profitability of the business.

Contribute to the overall strategic and operational management of the business. Be specifically responsible for delegated business development/marketing tasks and support the Commercial Director to achieve set strategies.

• Take responsibility for successfully developing, supporting, and leading client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverable management.
• Set up new and operate existing effective programme processes and systems that enable efficient data collection, management, and benchmarking.
• Lead in interfacing with the client and other consultants at all programme stages where required.
• Understand the client and commission requirements and provide a trusted position that the client can rely upon to deliver.
• Manage commissions under your control to meet client and business objectives.
• Lead and facilitate the overall cross-functional project team.
• Advise at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on different approaches to achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Optimise project staff utilisation.
• Deliver the skills necessary to meet technical objectives for the commission.
• Comply with Business Management System requirements.
• Comply with T&T risk management processes.
• Ensure contracts for services for commissions under your control are in place with all clients/sub-consultants in line with group policy.
• Comply with risk mitigation measures defined in the Commission Execution Plan.
• Lead to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical, and performance parameters.
• Establish effective project governance, processes, and systems to be utilised throughout the project.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Advise upon the procurement of resources – design and construction.
• Monitor and apply performance management techniques, including the use of KPIs to improve project performance.
• Set up and manage the change control process.
• Monitor and advise upon project finances/budgets.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Ensure the production of formal project progress and other reports.
• Implement risk management techniques appropriate to the project.
• Manage and monitor design team in accordance with commission scope.
• Manage and monitor contractor in accordance with commission scope.
• Develop appropriate contractor interface.
• Lead or support business case production as required by the commission scope.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 - 15 years of relevant working experience in the cost management discipline.
• Degree holder in Quantity Surveying, or related field (Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering).
• RICS qualified (MRICS).
• Experience of working on Major Programmes and Projects.
• Proactive, quality driven, self-motivated, and hands-on team leader with the ability to multitask.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills essential, ability to communicate well with clients and senior management. Ability to manage difficult stakeholders.
• Experience in leading and managing large teams of professionals with a strength in growing and developing people.
• Strong communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge in Real Estate/infrastructure.

Additional Information

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.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.