Senior Program Director

Project Leadership Role

We are seeking an experienced project manager to join our international consultancy business spanning five global hubs. You will oversee work for world-leading organisations across the public and private sectors.

Your primary responsibility will be to determine and arrange project management, technical services, and external resources required for the project on an individual and team basis on behalf of the client organisation.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with the team (client, design team, and other consultants, and contractor) and all stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of the project in line with all expectations, communicating strategies to the team.
• Demonstrate a commitment to safety first, exhibiting visible safety behaviours, and using safety moments and relevant safety frameworks.
• Provide subject matter knowledge to support the team from the broader projects and business units to assist in ensuring the best project outcome.
• Procure and manage design and wider consultant teams and project stakeholders to ensure effective completion of responsibilities, including project brief/scope, fees, processing claims, deliverables, and/or project variations, etc.
• Support collaboration between all parties.
• Produce a design and authorities programme (or work with a planner to produce) to be integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Manage the timely and successful 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 and being accountable for the scope of works relating to the project portfolios.
• Deliver the project objectives in line with the project execution plan, leading and managing the project team/s and relevant stakeholders to achieve strategic project key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Prepare and modify where necessary project plans and keep them updated and relevant over the course of the project/s.
• Oversee project timeframes and budgets, ensuring successful delivery of projects, highlighting any risks, challenges, and mitigations.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and ensure robust quality systems are in place and suitably managed and monitored in line with service excellence.
• Lead and record relevant meetings, providing relevant parties with contextual information and analysis.
• Effectively coordinate and communicate with all project stakeholders, ensuring completion of responsibilities/tasks and that appropriate standards and records are documented and maintained.
• Take ownership of project changes, as and when necessary, tracking project changes and ensure they are progressed and formalised within the agreed timeframes.
• Responsible for ensuring approved handover documentation is coordinated and provided prior to practical completion.
• Promote and drive business priorities through construction to production, digital & data, and responsible business.

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• Extensive Project Management Experience:
• A strong background in property or infrastructure project management.
• Commercial Acumen:
• Excellent financial management skills.
• Leadership and Teamwork:
• Experience of leading parts of projects within large, diverse teams.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
• Experience of developing and forming relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Professional Qualifications:
• MCIOB/MAPM/MRICS/MICE or local equivalent.
• Industry Certifications:
• Appropriate construction skills certification scheme (CSCS) card (or local equivalent).

We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, prioritising wellbeing and adhering to local health and safety rules or regulations.

We lead on cost management services, delivering high-quality results and building long-term relationships with clients.

We operate with integrity, influencing business objectives that align with compliance obligations.

We empower our people to excel, mentoring and coaching teams to achieve excellence in delivery.