Director, PDS Projects

JLL; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program

Competitive pay and benefits package

Job summary

JLL Chennai, India seeks a Project Director to lead major projects, ensuring successful delivery and client satisfaction. You will guide cross‑functional teams, manage budgets and reporting, and collaborate with stakeholders to align with commercial objectives.

The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and a structured approach to project management, with a focus on maintaining JLL’s legacy of excellence in real estate solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10–12 years in design, construction or project management.
• Degree in a property-related discipline.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Technology savvy with industry platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead major projects from inception to delivery, ensuring outcomes exceed client expectations and align with JLL’s commercial goals.
• Manage contract administration of vendors and monitor project budgets.
• Prepare monthly reports and maintain robust reporting and communication channels.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Education

Property-related degree

Job description

Project Director

Project and Development Services – (Chennai/India)

What this job involves

Leading projects to success

As Project Director you’ll take total responsibility for the overall success of major projects—guiding teams in each phase to achieve outcomes that exceed clients’ expectations and meet JLL’s commercial objectives. Driven and ambitious by nature, you have a mastery of the ins and outs of business—from products and systems to processes, tools and best practices. You’ll need to collaborate effectively with a range of stakeholders, leading from the front while also taking the time to understand their point of view. For each project, you’ll establish an effective organisational structure for reporting, communication and working procedures, and ensure that clear objectives and quality control systems are in place. You’ll lead a project team that is highly motivated, eager to contribute, and in sync with the stakeholders’ mind-sets. You’ll also attend project meetings, submit monthly reports, and monitor project budgets, so an eye for detail and a structured approach to tasks will serve you well.

Making clients our first priority

The best person for this job is one who always considers what’s best for our clients. As such, you’ll maintain a strong and positive relationship with our clients by identifying their needs, requirements and constraints. While you act in the clients’ best interests throughout the project duration, you must make sure that the project’s revenue and payment cycles are properly managed.

Keeping an eye on business opportunities is also among the highlights of the job

Do you have a knack for building rapport with prospects? Your expertise in surveying a client’s needs and supporting the preparation of PM proposals is key. Likewise, skilfully developing relationships with other company business lines is a must; we achieve are biggest success when working together, so clear communication is key, as is collaboration and team work.

Maintaining the JLL legacy

We uphold excellence in everything we do—that has been essential to our more than 200 years of staying power. As the person in charge, your task is to continue our tradition of project success. You’ll accomplish this by creating a network of professional consultants.

Who Can Deliver The Required Scope Of Every Project

Likewise, you’ll handle contract administration of all vendors professionally and according to legal requirements. It’s the best way to protect both our and the clients’ commercial interests. Your expertise will also be central in identifying project risks and mitigating them. Furthermore, you’ll be responsible for developing project-related reports, analyses and reviews regularly.

Sound like you?

Our successful Project Managers ...

Engage confidently with internal and external stakeholders and see things from their perspective.

Are driven to succeed and love achieving challenging goals.

Bring a structured and organised approach to everything they do.

Communicate and collaborate to achieve success.

Thrive under pressure and deal effectively with tight deadlines and high expectations.

To apply you need to be

• Project-smart and technology-savvy
• We employ talent from a wide range of backgrounds, though typically you should have a degree in any property-related discipline, and at least 10 to 12 years’ experience in design, construction or project management.
• Are you technology savvy? As the digital leader in project management, we use a range of technology platforms to deliver our projects.
• Do you have a deep understanding of the legal environment for each project in respect to planning, commercial aspects, and delivery? If your answers are ‘yes’, then you’re already one step ahead.
• A natural communicator
• This role calls for superior communication skills, as we’ll expect you to be able to handle complex conversations with business owners, senior executives, and decision makers. We believe in clear and straightforward communication and strong empathy and EQ at all times. Of course, you’ll be good at building team relationships and interacting effectively with stakeholders in and out of the organisation.

What we can do for you

• At JLL, our purpose is to shape the future of real estate for a better world.
• We make sure that you become the best version of yourself by helping you realise your full potential in an entrepreneurial and inclusive work environment.
• We will empower your ambitions through our dedicated Total Rewards Program, competitive pay and benefits package.