Associate Director - Project Management

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend are seeking an Associate Director to join their Enterprise Variable team to lead complex projects and transformational programmes. You will provide leadership across multi-project engagements, supervise teams, coach colleagues and help grow client opportunities while ensuring delivery excellence.

The role requires expert judgement, strong stakeholder management, and experience driving governance, risk and financial performance across portfolios.

Qualifications

• Extensive project and programme leadership experience.
• Ability to independently lead complex engagements and stakeholder environments.
• Strong judgement, communication, commercial and problem-solving capability.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, transformation initiatives or critical programmes.
• Experience managing diverse stakeholders and changing priorities.
• Professional qualifications such as APM, MSP, PRINCE2, RICS desirable.
• 2:1 (or higher) construction-related degree.
• Line Management Experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead highly complex, high-profile programmes and portfolios with minimal oversight.
• Establish delivery strategies, governance arrangements and stakeholder engagement approaches.
• Provide assurance, oversight and expert guidance across multiple projects or programmes.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and advise on delivery, governance, risk and performance.
• Navigate ambiguity and organisational change with sound judgement to resolve challenges.
• Support commercial management, resource planning and successful delivery across client engagements.
• Champion best practice, innovation and continuous improvement in delivery.
• Provide line management to Associates and Senior Project Managers and their reports.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Line management

Change management

Education

PRINCE2 / MSP / APM / RICS desirable

Construction degree 2:1 or higher

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 62 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 andprogrammesas we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities includeprogramme, 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 estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are looking for an Associate Director to join their Enterprise Variable team.The role will provide leadership across the most complex projects, programmes and transformation initiatives, operating independently and applying expert judgement to deliver successful outcomes for clients. You will provide leadership and line management to teams, supporting though coaching, mentoring and regular meetings. The successful candidate will develop business with ‘Win, Keep, Grow’ project and programme opportunities with new and existing clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead highly complex, high-profile or business-critical programmes and portfolios with minimal oversight.
• Establish delivery strategies, governance arrangements and stakeholder engagement approaches appropriate to programme complexity.
• Provide assurance, oversight and expert guidance across multiple projects or programmes simultaneously.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and provide advice on delivery, governance, risk and programme performance.
• Navigate ambiguity, complexity and organisational change, applying sound judgement to resolve emerging challenges.
• Support commercial management, resource planning and successful delivery across client engagements.
• Champion best practice, innovation and continuous improvement within programme and project delivery.
• Contribute to recruitment, proposition development, thought leadership and growth of the Enterprise practice.
• Provide line management duties to Associates and Senior Project Managers and their reports
• Develop business opportunities, using internal and external networks to build new, or build upon existing, client opportunities to secure new opportunities for team(s).
• Provide financial oversight and responsibility for own and teams’ forecasting and billing
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring across project and programme teams.
• Support capability development, recruitment, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide line management duties to Associates and Senior Project Managers and their reports

Qualifications

• Extensive project and programme leadership experience. (10 years desired)
• Proven ability to independently lead complex engagements and stakeholder environments.
• Strong judgement, communication, commercial and problem-solving capability.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, transformation initiatives or business-critical programmes.
• Experience and Resilience shown in managing complex and varying stakeholders
• Professional qualifications such as APM, MSP, PRINCE2, RICS or equivalent desirable.
• Qualification 2:1 higher in construction related degree
• Line Management Experience

Additional Information

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

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