Project Director

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Perform project management duties on allocated projects.
• Direct, support, and provide project governance and oversight for a team of 3 or more project managers.

MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Support major Cushman & Wakefield submissions as Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Identification and conversion of opportunities.
• Maintain marketing collateral.
• Prepare and present tender submissions.
• Prepare and present client presentations.

LEADERSHIP

• Manage budget and billings for the projects including procurement setup for clients and supply chain.
• Understand and articulate the offerings of the service lines.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

• Manage project team resources and team’s annual leave.
• Manage project team utilisation.
• People management: keep staff involved and informed; recognise and reward effort; provide feedback, coaching & mentoring for team(s).
• Conduct performance evaluations with project team members and provide coaching / mentoring as required.
• Resolve difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project managers and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT

• Assist with business improvement and innovation initiatives.
• HSSE implementation on all projects under management.
• Conduct peer reviews on projects deemed “at risk” and provide practical steps and mentoring to bring troubled projects back on track.

PROJECT LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Scope Management:

• Provide governance and functional support to the project team.
• Manage multiple projects within the project team’s remit.
• Contract Management (where applicable in relation to Scope Items):
• Verify evidence of compliance with contract terms for extensions of time and variations.
• Preparing, reviewing and obtaining agreements to enter into contract with clients and supply chain.

Planning/Scheduling:

• Interface with Project Managers with regard to schedule status.
• Ensure schedule is aligned to contractual timings where applicable.
• Ensure schedules are rigorous in terms of their practical construct.
• Ensure schedules are rigorous in terms of their contractual construct (where applicable).
• If required, assist with stakeholder management to explain schedule slippage.

Project Control:

• Monitor and review project performance at a high level by regular review of the defining project control metrics of progress and performance management, schedule status against planned, productivity factors and budget performance.
• Monthly review of project progress, financial performance and risk management.
• Provide support to the project in terms of project controls resources, including personnel, systems and hardware.
• View a reduction in tender/ forecast margin as a loss and an improvement on budgeted margin a success.
• Review the mandated reports and investigate any irregularities.
• Quality Management:
• Lead all activities and provide functional support on projects to enable the appropriate delivery of quality outcomes.
• Leverage quality learnings from individual projects across all projects.
• Facilitate, lead and influence to achieve a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the project team.

Risk Management:

• Facilitate, lead and influence to achieve a culture of risk awareness and management within the project team.
• Provide functional risk support to the projects to enable the appropriate delivery of the risk management process.
• Review Project Risk Registers to ensure analysis is fully complete and adequate on all projects delivered.
• Ensure Risk Treatment plans are complete and effective.
• Sound working knowledge of quantitative analysis inputs and outputs to guide proper decision making.
• Monitor the effective and accurate interface between Risk Management, project schedule, project financials and other project & commercial management processes.
• Leverage risk management learning’s from individual projects and communicate to broader business unit.
• Drive the action plans from lessons learnt sessions and drive a “No Blame” culture within project team.

Procurement Management:

• Provide functional support to the projects to enable the appropriate delivery of the procurement process.
• Leverage the procurement process and learnings across the project team to provide increased effectiveness on individual projects.

Project Communication:

• Build strong relationship with customers.
• Assess the effectiveness of the project team’s communications outcomes with the critical project stakeholders.
• Communicate regularly with your teams and celebrate and share successes.
• Provide support and coaching to individual Project Managers in their communications dealings with internal and external stakeholders to build confidence and effectiveness.

People Leadership:

• Be aware of the Cushman & Wakefield values and policies and provide leadership by conducting yourself in accordance with these tenets.
• Coach and mentor project team members.
• Determine human resource requirements for approval.
• Mobilise project team.
• Demobilise project team.
• Develop team cohesiveness.
• Ensure appropriate role responsibilities are in alignment.
• Project Document Control and Management:
• Liaise with PM to ensure that Cushman & Wakefield document control and management principals are being implemented and adhered to.
• Ensure that the document control and management systems and processes are suitable for the project.

Project Management:

• Check to ensure the Cushman & Wakefield Project Management Methodology (PMM) is being followed.
• Provide oversight and functional support to the projects to ensure the delivery of the PMM processes.
• Closely review the project reports and assess and manage the performance of the Project Manager and the project team under control.
• Leverage the allocation of expertise and learnings across the projects to provide increased effectiveness at individual project levels.
• Ensure lessons learned and project review findings are actioned and share with the teams and peers.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years construction/development industry experience.
• Time management and people management training.
• Degree level qualification in building surveying, project management or equivalent construction related degree.
• Achieved industry recognised professional qualification, such as RICS, COIB, AIPM (CPPD), PMP, MSP or similar.
• Industry specific training in contracts, procurement, PMBOK processes.

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