Security Cleared Associate / Project Director: Digital Project Controls, Defence - Glasgow/ Bristol/ London

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 130 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

You are a project professional with experience on major capital programmes or large portfolios in the defence sector, ideally working with UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) organisations and/or Tier 1 suppliers and/or consultancies.

Our clients are “project enterprises”, including UK Government Defence organisations and Tier 1 suppliers, tasked with delivering complex portfolios of projects and programmes that realise military capability, secure infrastructure, and transformational change across people, process, technology, and assets.

You want to transform our clients’ approach to project-programme-portfolio management (P3M) by implementing digital solutions aligned to Defence acquisition lifecycles and secure delivery environments.

You will combine your knowledge of establishing digitally-enabled project ‘ways of working’ with your awareness of P3M solutions to maximise successful outcomes and investment returns for our clients, including improving assurance, governance and delivery confidence across Defence programmes.

We are seeking to recruit talented individuals at Associate Director and Project Director grades, who feel their experience and capabilities could support digital transformations for our clients by implementing and integrating applications and data to support robust project management and project controls.

As part of our team you will be expected to: 

• Assess current challenges and determine client requirements including within complex Defence delivery and assurance environments;
• Implement or refine established P3M methodologies, processes, data structures, tools and systems that enables the client to achieve desired project outcomes, aligned to Defence governance, gated reviews and acquisition lifecycles;
• Direct technology suppliers and lead digital implementation teams to establish client capability, often within secure environments and across client-supplier ecosystems;
• Embed changes in client enterprises by supporting stakeholder engagement and business readiness activities, across both MoD organisations and Tier 1 delivery partners;
• Continuously improve our advisory services; 

• Produce documents/ deliverables and reports to support findings and recommendations across various stages of client engagements; 

• Work within diverse and multi-disciplinary teams representing Turner & Townsend at both client sites and virtually; 
• Participate in various business generation activities such as bids, proposals etc. and work closely alongside senior management and the wider Turner & Townsend team; 
• Support marketing and social media campaigns (employee advocacy) where appropriate;

Applicants must be sole UK nationals and eligible to obtain Security Clearance (SC).

The ideal candidate will have experience and qualifications in line with the below, but we are open to enthusiastic and ambitious individuals from all backgrounds who want to pursue a successful consultancy career, keen on enabling clients to achieve successful outcomes. 

• Graduate calibre with relevant industry experience; 
• Experience in the establishment or transformation of project ‘ways of working’ integrating P3M disciplines and/ or enterprise functions e.g. project controls, commercial, delivery/ PM, finance, information management etc.;
• Experience working within the UK Defence sector, including MoD organisations and/or Tier 1 suppliers, would be advantageous;
• Understanding of Defence acquisition processes (e.g. CADMID/CADMIT), governance and assurance frameworks;
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments;
• Experience defining or refining project structures to integrate asset information, work, resource, schedule, cost and risk;
• Experience translating client methodologies into supply chain requirements and contract scope;
• Experience in the specification or implementation of project controls or P3M technology;
• Experience of major capital programmes or large portfolios;

• Familiarity with core project controls functions (scope, schedule, cost, risk, performance reporting);
• Experience of business capability establishment or change; 
• APM, PMI or similar certification or equivalent experience would be advantageous;

Key expected behaviours and ways of working: 

• Take personal responsibility to complete actions and resolve issues; 

• Able to build strong, professional internal and client relationships;
• Possess an analytical mindset; 
• Able to express ideas with clarity, sticking to the key points; 
• Able to listen effectively to understand wider issues and the impact on self and others; 
• Able to show clear determination to achieve goals that have been set; 
• Able to remain resilient despite obstacles, disappointments or challenges at work;

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

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