Associate Director - Swindon, United Kingdom - Turner & Townsend
Description
Company Description- At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society._
- Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide._
Job Description:
We are looking for an Associate Director to to be part of Turner & Townsend's successful occupier fit out team and to run various projects across the South West of England.
As an Associate Director you will handle commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project, etc from a £15m construction project or have commissioning responsibilities for a £50m package of a much larger overall contract.
- The Associate Director performs the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for endtoend service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions.
- To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Commission Management, to include:
- Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
- Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including prequalification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
- Ensuring that postcontract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
- Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
- Ensuring the production of monthly postcontract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Value engineering and life cycle costing
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
- Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities.
- Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
- Identifying and acting upon crossselling opportunities
- Working with Directors to construct bids for new work
- Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients
- Staff management (where appropriate)
- Inputting into the formal management of Senior Cost Managers and Assistant Cost Managers or small cost management team, to include 2nd round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals
- Knowledge management
Internal management accountabilities, to include:
- Staff management (where appropriate)
- Inputting into the formal management of the cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at staff appraisals
- Knowledge management
- Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
- Financial management
- Utilising FMS in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission
- Process improvement
- Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes
REPORTING
Depending upon context, a Associate Director is likely to report to a Director/Partner.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
An Associate Director will in part be assessed by the extent to which:
- Commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time
- Service delivery on commissions is in line with the conditions of appointment
- Strong relationships are developed with clients and crossfunctional team members
- The cost management team is effectively led (where appropriate) within the context of delivering a specific commission
- General line management responsibilities (where appropriate) are effectively discharged
- Business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross
- Margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts are kept track of on all commissions
- Key information and data is effectively cascaded and appropriately retained
Qualifications:
- Ideally professionally qualified in one of the following fields: construction, project management, engineering, surveying or architecture
- Ideally a member of a professional body ie RICS, APM, CIOB
- Ideally you will have worked with leading consultancies
- Experience of delivering CAT A / CAT B office projects
- Delivered and lead teams on schemes in excess of 60,000 sqft
- Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each per
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