Project Director
Role Overview
Leads strategic delivery, operational excellence, and client satisfaction across a diverse real estate project portfolio.
Portfolio includes commercial offices, residential, mixed-use, and industrial assets.
The role combines technical and financial understanding with leadership, commercial, and business-development capability.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads strategic delivery, operational excellence, and client satisfaction across a diverse real estate project portfolio.
Portfolio includes commercial offices, residential, mixed-use, and industrial assets.
The role combines technical and financial understanding with leadership, commercial, and business-development capability.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex real estate projects from end to end, meeting quality, cost, and timeline objectives.
- Oversee active projects and align delivery with company governance and compliance standards.
- Lead business development and contribute to pitches, RFP responses, and proposals.
- Manage budgets, cost control, financial forecasts, profitability targets, and corrective action for variances.
- Maintain strategic client relationships and support high levels of client satisfaction.
- Develop marketing strategies and represent the firm in client presentations and industry events.
- Lead and mentor regional project teams and provide technical oversight.
- Coordinate with internal service lines to deliver integrated real estate solutions.
- Establish best practices and operating procedures to improve team efficiency and delivery.
Qualifications and experience
- At least 15 years of project management experience across multiple real estate sectors.
- Proven leadership managing large teams and strategic accounts in a consultancy or developer environment.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, architecture, or project management.
- Strong commercial, contractual, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills.
- RICS, PMP, or equivalent professional membership is preferred.
- Knowledge of commercial real estate market dynamics and trends is a plus.
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