Senior Pre-Construction Director in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire

Energy Jobline CVL; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technical contractor in the UK is seeking a Senior Pre-Construction Director to lead high-complexity projects in logistics, data centres, and life sciences. You will be responsible for engaging senior clients, building relationships, and ensuring winning bids. This role offers significant autonomy and influence, with a competitive salary to attract the right candidate in North West London.

Qualifications

• Experienced in logistics, data centres, and life sciences sectors.
• Strong ability to align design and cost strategy.
• Capable of presenting to senior clients and influencing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pre-construction process for high complexity builds.
• Own the UK Pre-Construction portfolio in critical sectors.
• Build winning bids and transition smoothly into project delivery.

Skills

Client engagement

Leadership in estimating

Building relationships

Negotiation

Job description

Senior Pre-Construction Director | UK Logistics, Data Centres & Life Sciences | NW London | £120,000 + | Permanent

Join an ambitious, high-growth technical contractor in a Senior Pre Construction Director role. This is a role for somebody willing to be the face of pre‑construction for a business specialising in high complexity builds – namely, purpose‑built logistics hubs, mission‑critical data centres and cutting edge life‑sciences facilities. These are not just routine projects – they are the kind of schemes demanding vision, speed, precision and an appetite for winning.

Our client is a UK based technical construction partner operating out of North West London, with a reputation of delivering excellence as standard. They are actively in pursuit of a Senior Leader to own the UK Pre‑Construction portfolio in logistics, data centres and life sciences, and take it to the next level.

What you’ll bring to the table

• You are a work‑winning pre‑construction leader: you understand how to engage senior clients, anticipate their needs, align early design and cost strategy, build the winning bid and then transition smoothly into delivery.
• You have hands‑on experience across logistics, data centre and/or life‑science sectors (or highly relevant adjacent sectors) and you understand what differentiates a successful, high‑velocity commercial build from the rest.
• You are comfortable being client‑facing: presenting to the C‑suite, building relationships, influencing and negotiating at pace.
• You have solid leadership of the estimating function and associated teams in your remit – ensuring that cost planning, risk, tendering, procurement and design coordination all roll up into a winning bid.
• You are based (or prepared to be based) in and around North West London (office based with travel as needed for UK projects).

Why this role is different

• You will operate at a senior level with significant autonomy and influence – owning a UK portfolio of critical sectors where the market is strong and the opportunity is clear.
• The company is scaling with confidence and they are investing in growth.
• You will sit at the heart of both bid‑winning and strategic positioning – this isn’t just a “delivery” role, it’s a proper leadership role.
• The reward will match the responsibility: while the exact salary bracket isn’t specified, this client is prepared to pay what is needed to secure the right person.

In short

This is a chance to take the lead in shaping and winning the next wave of major UK logistics, data centre and life‑science projects for a business that is pushing boundaries in technical construction. If you thrive on winning work, building teams, talking to senior clients and shaping strategy – this could be your next defining move.