Director of Project Management (Client-side / Construction)

Connexus; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity on offer

Job summary

Connexus, a well-established Sydney client-side PM consultancy, seeks a Director of Project Management to lead delivery, BD, and operations. The role offers equity and an at-risk component tied to KPIs, with a fixed base and options to work from home at least one day a week.

You should bring 15+ years client-side experience, 10+ person team leadership, and a proven track record in winning work and building a practice in NSW.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years client-side experience and lead a team of 10+ people.
• Track record of winning work and building a practice.
• Established in Sydney with an NSW network.
• Desire to join a small, ambitious firm with impact.
• Currently operating at director level in a consulting firm.

Responsibilities

• Oversee PM delivery, manage the PM team, and guide projects and clients.
• Drive business development, identify opportunities, prepare tender submissions, win work.
• Involve in internal day-to-day operations and commercial decisions (P&L).

Skills

Client-side project management

Team leadership

Business development

Tender/bid submissions

P&L management

Job description

Director of Project Management (Client-side / Construction)

Most director roles give you a title and a seat at someone else's table.

This one gives you equity and a say in what the business becomes.

The company

A well-established Sydney client-side PM consultancy is adding a third director. Their annual review came back with a clear finding. To double in size over the next three years, they need someone who has built a business unit before and wants to do it again with skin in the game.

Social infrastructure is their speciality, roughly 80% is health, education, social housing and aged care.

They punch above their weight, delivering projects into the hundreds of millions, and they've just won two significant NSW Government health commissions.

We've placed five people here. The culture feedback has been the same every time: close-knit, high performing, ambitious company with everyone pulling the same way.

The Role

Your role covers three areas.

• Project Delivery - managing their PM team and being hands on with projects, clients and guiding internal team
• Business Development - having a strong BD role, identify new work opportunities, cultivate existing relationships, leverage existing network, prepare tender / bid submissions, win work.
• Business Operations - being actively involved with the internal day-to-day management of the business, team, commercials (P&L), etc

The package is a fixed base plus an at-risk component tied to KPIs, with equity on the table. You'll work from home at least one day a week.

About you

• Minimum 15+ years client-side experience and several years leading a team of 10 or more.
• Track record of winning work and building a practice.
• You need to be established in Sydney, with an NSW network that already works for you.
• You need to want a small, ambitious firm where your effort shows up directly in the result.
• If you're after a quiet director title in a large firm, this isn't it.
• My client is not looking for someone who wants to move into a director role, they want someone who is currently doing this job (successfully) in another consulting firm.