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Turner & Townsend

Programme Director

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London, England, GBR
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The Programme Director will lead and manage complex transformation and real estate programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, stakeholder engagement, compliance with governance, and effective financial management.
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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

For over 75 years we have been helping our clients deliver on their objectives. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth and we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To reach this goal, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

Job Description

Are you an inspiring leader with the vision and drive to lead complex programmes to success? We are seeking a Programme Director to spearhead a high-profile commission, setting the strategic direction while empowering and motivating the programme team to achieve excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Establish and drive the programme vision, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Lead the framework for programme management and control, guaranteeing transparency and confidence for stakeholders.
  • Implement a structured stakeholder engagement and management process, building strong relationships with senior clients (C-Suite), Boards, Steering Groups, Investors and supplier stakeholders.
  • Oversee financial governance, ensuring robust financial reporting and management across the programme.
  • Identify and mitigate health and safety risks, enforcing safeguards to protect all involved in programme delivery.
  • Deliver excellent commission management, ensuring compliance with governance and risk management requirements while maintaining contractual deliverables and instilling confidence in Turner & Townsend’s Executive body.

About You

  • Proven experience delivering high-profile, large-scale, complex transformation/real estate programmes (circa £250-£500m) with demonstrable achievement of tangible benefits and outcomes for clients/employers.
  • Comfortable leading the full programme lifecycle end to end, as well as intervening at specific stages requiring expertise or recovery leadership.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, operating as a trusted partner and critical friend to clients.
  • An expert practitioner of industry best practice programme management methodologies, preferably within a real estate environment.
  • Confident in engaging senior internal and external stakeholders, navigating the most senior decision-making environments.
  • A first-class people manager, dedicated to nurturing talent within the organisation and supporting professional growth among clients’ teams.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Strong and current understanding of portfolio/programme management requirements and how it relates to real estate
  • Proven ability to work in relevant portfolio/programme management process and systems
  • Awareness/experience of variety of methods of procurement and forms of contract
  • Excellent communication skills, in person and written
  • Degree / Postgraduate qualified in a relevant field
  • Professional membership desirable

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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