Project Director (Healthcare Construction Consultancy)

Overview

In this Project Director role within AECOM’s London Healthcare Project Management Team, you will lead medium to large-built environment and construction schemes from initiation to handover, ensuring successful delivery and knowledge growth. You’ll manage design teams, contracts, and multidisciplinary workstreams while nurturing client and consultant relationships to support business growth. The position combines project leadership with significant business development and industry engagement in the healthcare sector. This is a chance to shape major healthcare and social infrastructure projects while working in a global firm focused on delivering a better world.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• well-being programs
• access to industry-leading technology

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of project management team outputs and ensure on-time, on-budget, high-quality results
• Chair internal and external project meetings and coordinate sign-off of deliverables
• Manage design teams and tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
• Formulate and manage construction contracts and provide financial oversight and resource planning
• Provide strategic guidance, audit, and review to support project delivery
• Strengthen client relationships and align outcomes with client objectives to drive growth
• Mentor and develop junior staff and lead talent initiatives
• Support bids and business development, including fee proposals and client engagement
• Engage in industry forums and knowledge sharing to foster growth
• Lead on enhancing best-practice project management within the team

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in project management within built environment or construction, with a track record in complex healthcare projects
• Significant healthcare sector experience with NHS drivers, governance, and stakeholder environments
• Proven ability to lead projects and client relationships with executive support
• Strong understanding of NHS business case approvals and development of robust business cases
• Experience administering NEC contracts and leading commercial processes
• Experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and managing design development
• Knowledge of procurement strategies and construction delivery methodologies
• Excellent risk, change, and stakeholder management and governance experience
• Strong project controls, governance, reporting, and assurance for major programmes
• CDM Regulations 2015 knowledge and health and safety obligations for healthcare construction
• Outstanding communication and organisational skills; ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders
• Inclusive leadership and relationship management; track record in winning major bids and strategic pursuits
• Experience on major masterplan, healthcare estate transformation, and social infrastructure projects
• Strong internal team leadership and client account management with an established local network
• Commitment to professional qualifications (e.g., RICS, CIOB, APM) or willingness to pursue
• Desire to mentor colleagues towards professional qualifications
• A built environment degree and/or recognised project management qualifications are advantageous

• leadership
• relationship management
• communication
• NEC forms of contract
• construction contracts management
• project controls and governance

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