Associate Director/Director, Advisory
Role Overview
The position drives client delivery and business generation for Advisory across the region, including infrastructure and energy.
The role provides leadership across programme mobilisation, operating model design, organisation design, governance, integration, and transformation.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The position drives client delivery and business generation for Advisory across the region, including infrastructure and energy.
The role provides leadership across programme mobilisation, operating model design, organisation design, governance, integration, and transformation.
Programme mobilisation and set-up
- Lead mobilisation for major capital, infrastructure, real estate, and transformation programmes.
- Define programme vision, objectives, delivery principles, roadmaps, and implementation strategies.
- Establish programme management offices and integrated delivery functions.
- Support clients through initiation, transition, and scale-up phases.
Operating model and organisation design
- Design programme operating models covering governance, structures, roles, accountabilities, processes, and interfaces.
- Develop Target Operating Models and define responsibilities across clients, delivery partners, and supply chains.
- Design organisational structures, capability frameworks, leadership roles, responsibility matrices, and workforce plans.
Governance and integration
- Establish governance frameworks, committees, forums, reporting arrangements, policies, and procedures.
- Design escalation and decision-making pathways for effective programme governance.
- Integrate delivery, controls, commercial, finance, risk, stakeholder, client, consultant, and contractor functions.
Transformation and advisory
- Lead organisational change and support adoption of new governance models, processes, and ways of working.
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive client stakeholders and facilitate strategic workshops.
- Provide programme design recommendations, executive presentations, client deliverables, and business development support.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in programme management, advisory, consulting, or organisational transformation.
- Proven experience mobilising large-scale programmes or portfolios.
- Experience developing programme operating models and governance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of programme management and PMO best practices.
- Experience with major infrastructure, real estate, defence, transport, energy, or government programmes.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, executive influence, analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company working across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources.
Its capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, commercial, procurement, supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.
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