Project Director (Healthcare Construction Consultancy)
AECOM · London, United Kingdom · hybrid
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As a Project Director within AECOM’s London Healthcare Project Management Team, you will be responsible for leading medium to large-scale built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring their successful delivery while continuing to develop your specialised knowledge.
Your role will involve overseeing significant phases of projects, help to guide the business, whilst also fostering client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will drive business development activities and contribute to AECOM's team and organisational growth.
You will join our London Healthcare Project Management team, which forms a key part of our Social Infrastructure global market sector.
We are looking for someone who brings energy and insight, with proven consultancy experience gained through a background working within on major project and frameworks in the Healthcare sector.
Depending on the specific requirements of each project, the role may require you to be based on site and you will need to be prepared to travel to project locations within London and the Southeast.
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.
Examples of duties include:
- Lead the delivery of project management team outputs
- Lead internal AECOM Project Team Meetings and external project meetings
- Co‑ordinate, review and ensure sign‑off of deliverables
- Lead the management of design teams
- Lead the management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
- Lead the formulation and management of construction contracts
- Provide financial oversight, resource management, strategic guidance/audit & review
Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’ growth.
Examples of duties include:
- Lead the development of strong relationships with clients
- Be the main interface with AECOM clients
- Progress business development opportunities with existing and new clients
- Support ‘winning’ clients, ensuring quality outputs and professional behaviours
Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support junior members of our team in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high performance team culture.
Examples of duties include:
- Provide effective support, supervision and motivation of Project Managers and junior staff
- Ensure staff have current and relevant training
- Provide leadership within the project management business
- Provide leadership and mentoring to the healthcare team
- Support Project Managers through Professional Chartership
- Active involvement in recruitment and retention activities
- Ensure you complete all relevant training
Industry Engagement and Growth: Support 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.
Examples of duties include:
- Progress business development opportunities
- Support ‘winning’ clients as part of business development
- Engagement in recruitment (scope candidates, review candidates, interview & provide recommendations)
- Formulate fee proposals
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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.
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Extensive experience and technical knowledge in project management within the built environment or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex healthcare projects throughout the full project lifecycle, from business case development through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover and defects resolution.
- Significant healthcare sector experience with a strong understanding of current NHS drivers, challenges, governance requirements and stakeholder environments.
- Experience leading projects and client relationships with executive support; self-directed and experienced in project delivery.
- Strong understanding of NHS business case approval processes, including the ability to support clients in developing robust business and investment cases.
- Demonstrable experience administering and managing construction contracts, including NEC forms of contract, and leading commercial and contractual processes throughout project delivery.
- Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and managing design development through approval and assurance processes.
- Strong understanding of procurement strategies and construction delivery methodologies, with the ability to advise clients on project delivery routes.
- Excellent knowledge of risk, change and stakeholder management, including the ability to establish collaborative project cultures and drive successful project outcomes.
- Experience leading project controls, governance, reporting and assurance processes for major capital projects and programmes.
- Sound understanding of CDM Regulations 2015 and health and safety obligations applicable to healthcare construction projects.
- 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, including leading major bids and strategic pursuits.
- Experience working on major masterplan, healthcare estate transformation and social infrastructure projects.
- Strong internal team leadership skills and ability to bring large internal teams together.
- Well-developed client account management skills with 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