Delivery Director Alliance

Mace; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to drive delivery across complex consultancy projects. You will oversee timeframes, budgets, and risk, coordinating with clients, consultants, and contractors to meet all milestones.

In this role you will shepherd design and authorities programmes, ensure safety and governance, and manage external stakeholders to deliver on client expectations. Hybrid work options are available and collaboration is central to success.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing projects from inception to post-completion.
• Proven ability to oversee budgets, timelines and risk.
• Strong coordination with clients, consultants and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Oversees project timeframes and budgets, highlights risks and mitigations.
• Directs project management for client projects from inception to post‑completion.
• Ensures delivery aligns with stakeholder expectations and safety standards.
• Promotes safety behaviours and supports wellbeing of staff.
• Provides guidance to support success of broader projects.
• Manages external stakeholders to ensure completion per client expectations.
• Produces design and authorities programme integrated with procurement and delivery.
• Oversees timely delivery from brief through planning, procurement and construction.
• Coordinates sequencing and production of staging plans.
• Performs additional roles such as business development, resourcing, or invoicing as needed.
• Aligns strategy to deliver across production, digital, quality and sustainability.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder coordination

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Regulatory compliance

Job description

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project deliveryconsultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our Values

Safety first -

Going home safe and well

Client focus -

Deliver on our promise

Integrity -

Always do the right thing

Create opportunity -

for our people to excel

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Oversees project timeframes and project budgets, and ensures budgets are managed diligently and highlights any risks, challenges and mitigations.
• On behalf of external/third-party clients oversee the project management of the project/s on an individual and team basis from inception to post-completion.
• Ensures the successful delivery of the project in line with all stakeholders’ expectations communicating strategies to the wider client/ consultant/contractor team.
• Promotes Mace's value of Safety First, exhibiting visible safety behaviours, sharing lessons learned and using safety moments and Mace's HSW framework.
• Supports the safety and wellbeing of all Mace staff.
• Provides subject matter expertise and guidance to support the success of the broader Mace projects.
• Oversees management of the client and consultant team and all external/project stakeholders to ensure effective completion of the project in line with client expectations.
• Produces design and authorities programme to be integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Manages the timely delivery to programme from project inception/brief, through design development and planning, contractor procurement and construction phase in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed project milestones.
• Manages the timely sequencing/methodology and production of staging plans.
• Performs two to five of the following non-project related roles; such as business reporting, pipeline management, bidding, business development, resourcing, commercial strategy & maximising our commercial position, managing Mace contract, contract extensions, cross-selling, invoicing, debt collection and P&L responsibility and other as directed by the Senior Leadership Team.
• Aligns to strategy to place construction to production, digital and data, service excellence, quality, assurance and sustainability at the heart of our delivery.
• Partners with multiple internal and external stakeholders, working in collaboration to (implement strategy/programmes/initiatives).
• Manages, influences & negotiates with key senior external stakeholders (up to c-suite).

You’ll Need To Have

• 10+ years of experience in project management, managing small to medium/large sized projects.
• Developing budgetary oversight expertise.
• Developing proficiency in coordinating activities and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Proven understanding of project management methodologies and practices.
• Proven problem solving and analytical skills across estimating, scheduling, contracts administration, procurement, financial controls and reporting for planning, estimating, contract administration and procurement issues for various procedural, construction and design activities.
• Ensure project risks are effectively identified, mitigated and managed, including the proactive management of the early warning process.
• Developing bidding, business development and/or account growth capabilities.
• Strong commercial and financial skills and an ability to build up fee proposals and oversee project workbooks.
• Proficient knowledge and expertise in specific industry of project/role.
• Relevant technical qualification/certification for project portfolio/s.
• Sound technical expertise in Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (or local equivalent) rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
• Developing a reputation across the relevant sector / market and operating at the highest level of compliance.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organization.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.