Associate Director

**Associate Director - Project Management**

**North East of England**

**Competitive salary + car allowance & excellent benefits package**

***Company Overview**

Our client is a well established innovative national real estate and infrastructure consultancy, with several offices in the North East and other key UK cities who work with a variety of high calibre and long-standing clients across a number of sectors.

They are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for their clients, helping their people to realise their potential, and doing their part to create a green, inclusive and productive world where opportunities are open toall.

They offer independent advice, transforming performance to safeguard the commercial interests of their clients embarking on investment programmes across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources.

They are now seeking an Associate Director to join their Project Management team in the North East.

**The Role**

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing all services relating to project management and business development across the North East of England.

Main purpose of the role;
- To lead and coordinate project activities, ensuring good communication and adherence to governance processes.
- To understand, anticipate, inform and deliver great outcomes for our clients, every time, everywhere.
- To drive exceptional delivery, health & safety, commercial, risk management and quality performance on infrastructure projects throughout the project lifecycle.
- To be heavily involved in winning new work and developing a team of Project Managers

Key accountabilities;
- Project management discipline, to include:

- Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
- Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
- Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout the project.
- Project planning, including producing the detailed project plan.
- Advising upon the procurement of resources.
- Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
- Managing the change control process.
- Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
- Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
- Preparing formal project progress and other reports.
- Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Business development to include;
- Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager.
- Assisting in the production of bid documentation.
- Internal management accountabilities, to include: Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each project is input into the internal database.
- Financial management - Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising FMS in order to monitor a project’s financial status.
- Process improvement - Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.

Essential experience includes;
- Construction related degree or a similar construction related qualification with extensive technical delivery experience in a similar role gained within a consultancy
- 8+ years’ experience in delivering mission critical projects
- Ability to identify and develop potential opportunities to secure more business
- Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
- Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal