Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower
Job Description
As a Project Director within AECOM’s London Project Management Team, you will be working with a Regional Director to lead a team delivering managing large-scale built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion. You’ll ensure their successful delivery while using your expertise to mentor a substantial team of professionals and win further commissions from new and existing clients. In particular we are seeking individuals with masterplan and major commercial / residential development experience to work on some of our largest, most complex projects.
Your role will involve independently overseeing projects and business activities, guiding junior team members, and leading on client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will lead business development activities and contribute your expertise to AECOM's team, technical practice boards and organisational growth.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and Deliver: Drive project delivery on our project management commissions to meet time, budget, and quality requirements, while fostering collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors, and team members. Use your experience to take responsibility for our service delivery on large-scale projects.
* Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’ growth. Project Directors in our team have work winning responsibility and are expected to be market facing.
* Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support Associates, project managers and early career members of our team in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high-performance team culture.
* Industry Engagement and Growth: Lead bids and business development activities, engage with industry forums and networking events, and take ownership of your professional growth and knowledge-sharing within the organisation.
Enjoy the Perks
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Qualifications
* Extensive experience and technical knowledge in project management within the built environment or construction industry.
* Experience leading projects and client relationships with executive support – self-directed and experienced in project delivery.
* Outstanding communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple or major projects, workstreams, clients and stakeholders.
* Inclusive leadership skills and relationship management expertise.
* Proven work winning experience in a consultancy environment.
* Experience working on major masterplan and commercial / residential development projects for blue-chip clients
* Strong internal team leadership skills and ability to bring large internal teams together.
* Well-developed client account management skills and bring an established network of clients and consultants in the local market.
* Passionate about delivering high-quality consulting services, and comfortable in the role of lead consultant.
* Able to mentor teams and support people at all grades in their career development.
* Lead on enhancing elements of our best-practice approach to project management.
* Able to lead major bids, including strong commercial acumen and understanding of consultancy pricing structures.
* Be proactive, solution-oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances.
* Lead elements of team management functions, including line management and business development.
* Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB, APM) achieved or commitment to achieve one.
* Ability to support the development of colleagues, particularly towards professional qualifications (e.g., RICS, CIOB, APM).
We are a DisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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