Director, Capital Investment & Decision Support
Turner & Townsend · Vancouver, Canada · hybrid
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
The Director, Capital Investment & Decision Support will lead and grow AMCL’s Capital Investment & Decision Support capability, working with asset-intensive organizations to improve how they plan, prioritize and make investment decisions across the asset lifecycle.
The role will combine senior client advisory, technical leadership, business development and team leadership. It will support clients across Infrastructure and Energy & Natural Resources to establish practical, evidence-based approaches to asset investment planning, lifecycle decision-making, risk, value and portfolio prioritization.
The Director will work closely with AMCL and Turner & Townsend colleagues across asset management, program and project delivery, controls, cost and commercial management, digital and data, bringing these capabilities together where clients require integrated solution
Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex client engagements focused on asset investment planning, lifecycle planning, capital prioritization, value-based decision-making and portfolio optimization.
- Advise senior client leaders on investment strategy, asset risk, lifecycle performance, affordability and long-term capital requirements.
- Develop and apply decision-support frameworks that bring together cost, risk, performance, value and service outcomes to support transparent and defensible investment decisions.
- Lead the development of asset investment strategies, long-term capital and renewal plans, prioritization frameworks, value frameworks, business cases and investment governance.
- Support clients in developing approaches to asset criticality, risk-informed investment, asset health, lifecycle intervention planning and whole-life cost analysis.
- Lead the development and application of multi-criteria decision analysis, value-based decision-making, scenario analysis and other structured approaches to investment prioritization.
- Help clients establish governance, decision rights, processes and controls for capital planning and asset investment decision-making.
- Work with asset information, digital and analytics specialists to improve the quality and use of asset, risk, cost and performance information in investment decisions.
- Provide senior technical leadership and quality assurance across AMCL Capital Investment & Decision Support assignments.
- Develop AMCL propositions, methods, tools and intellectual property within Capital Investment & Decision Support, drawing on global AMCL experience and relevant industry practice.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and identify opportunities to extend AMCL’s support where there is a clear client need.
- Lead and contribute to proposals, pursuits, presentations and commercial development activity.
- Work with AMCL and Turner & Townsend sector and service-line leaders to develop opportunities across Infrastructure and Energy & Natural Resources.
- Lead, coach and develop consultants working across asset investment planning, lifecycle management, risk, value and decision support.
- Contribute to the growth, commercial performance and technical quality of the AMCL business.
Education
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Infrastructure Management, Business, Finance, Economics or a related discipline; or
- An equivalent combination of relevant education and senior professional experience.
Preferred
- Master's degree in a relevant discipline such as Engineering, Business, Asset Management, Finance or Infrastructure Management.
- Executive education in leadership, strategy, infrastructure, investment planning or organizational transformation.
Experience
Required
- 15+ years of relevant experience within asset-intensive organizations, consulting or advisory environments, with significant experience in one or more of the following:- Enterprise Asset investment planning.
- Lifecycle planning.
- Capital planning and prioritization.
- Asset management.
- Risk and value-based decision-making.
- Infrastructure or utility investment.
- Portfolio planning and optimization
- Experience Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders on complex investment, asset management or capital-planning decisions.
- Strong experience developing investment frameworks, governance arrangements, decision-support processes and supporting tools.
- Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between asset performance, risk, lifecycle cost, service outcomes and investment requirements.
- Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary advisory assignments within asset-intensive organizations.
- Proven ability to structure ambiguous client problems, establish a clear analytical approach and translate analysis into practical recommendations.
- Strong experience working across technical, operational, financial and executive stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage client relationships and take accountability for the quality and commercial performance of consulting assignments.
Preferred
- Experience within utilities, transportation, infrastructure, energy, public infrastructure or other regulated and asset-intensive sectors.
- Experience developing or implementing Asset Investment Planning approaches within large asset portfolios.
- Experience with whole-life cost modelling, asset criticality, asset health, risk-based prioritization, MCDA, value frameworks or portfolio optimization.
- Experience integrating asset investment planning with enterprise systems, asset information and analytics.
- Experience supporting major capital programs, infrastructure transformation or organizational change.
- Previous consulting or professional-services experience, including proposal development, commercial management and business development.
Certifications
Preferred
- Institute of Asset Management qualification, certification or Diploma.
- Professional Engineering designation or equivalent relevant professional designation.
- Relevant qualifications in finance, risk, project management, economics or investment planning.
- Change management or transformation-related certification where relevant.
Skills & Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of asset management and lifecycle management principles.
- Strong understanding of Asset Investment Planning and capital prioritization.
- Understanding of asset governance, risk management, value-based decision-making and portfolio management.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, including whole-life cost, affordability, investment trade-offs and business-case development.
- Ability to integrate technical, operational, financial and risk information into clear investment recommendations.
- Strong understanding of governance, decision rights and investment-control processes.
- Working knowledge of asset information, data governance, analytics and enterprise asset-management systems.
- Strong executive communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with senior executives, technical spec