Associate Director – Project Management

Overview

As Associate Director in the Enterprise Variable team, you will lead highly complex programmes and transformation initiatives, shaping delivery strategies and governance. You’ll mentor and manage teams while building client relationships to win and grow opportunities. You will operate with independent judgement, navigating ambiguity and driving risk-informed delivery at scale. This role offers impact across high-profile projects and contributes to the Enterprise practice’s growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead highly complex, high-profile programmes and portfolios with minimal oversight
• Set delivery strategies, governance, and stakeholder engagement for complex programmes
• Provide assurance and expert guidance across multiple projects or programmes
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and advise on delivery, governance, risk and performance
• Navigate ambiguity and organisational change to resolve challenges
• Support commercial management, resource planning and successful delivery
• Champion best practice, innovation and continuous improvement in programme delivery
• Contribute to recruitment, proposition development, thought leadership and growth of the Enterprise practice
• Provide line management to Associates and Senior Project Managers and their reports
• Develop business opportunities using networks to secure new opportunities for teams
• Provide financial oversight for forecasting and billing for self and teams
• Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring across project and programme teams
• Support capability development, recruitment, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives

Key requirements

• Extensive project and programme leadership experience (10 years desired)
• Proven ability to independently lead complex engagements and stakeholder environments
• Strong judgement, communication, commercial and problem-solving capability
• Experience managing complex portfolios, transformation initiatives or business-critical programmes
• Experience and resilience in managing complex and varying stakeholders
• Professional qualifications such as APM, MSP, PRINCE2, RICS or equivalent desirable
• Qualification 2:1 higher in construction related degree
• Account management (desirable)
• Line management experience

• Strong judgement
• Effective communication
• Problem-solving
• Programme and project leadership
• Governance and risk management
• Financial oversight, forecasting and billing

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