Associate Director – Design Management (Multidisciplinary) needed at AECOM

Job Description
Here is what you will be doing:

• The Associate Director runs large, complex and major projects with limited Director involvement. Able to run multiple projects of varying degrees of complexity. Manages multiple internal and external teams.

Technical Excellence:

• Responsible for the annual business performance of an end market or practice area
• Establishes the end market or practice area’s business plan
• Develops client relationships and leading client engagement across the end market
• Creates a pipeline of work for the end market by pursuing opportunities to secure new clients and selling additional work to existing clients
• Drives growth in order to improve profitability
• Leads proposals and bids for opportunities within the end market or practice area
• Accountable for a variety of complex deliverables throughout the lifecycle of multiple projects and programmes
• Manages the resources across an end market or practice area, all within the established budgets
• Responsible for internal and external networking
• Raising the company and professional profile as an industry leader and/or thought leader
• Actively manages and regulates project financial performance and takes corrective actions
• Acts as the APIC Project Director on at least one active project and manages projects using APIC and other systems as relevant
• Responsible for timely cash collection
• Responsible for ensuring that any additional work or changes in scope are approved by clients
• Ensures all deliverables comply with the PDS
• Complies with all QA requirements
•  Interprets benchmark data and presents to clients
• Performs quality control reviews of work developed by others

Team Management:

• Supports the Director in implementing the overall discipline strategic goals
• Responsible for working with the Team Leads and Principals in managing the team
• Provides effective communication of technical and business issues and communicates to all reporting staff and the broader teams
• Accountable for the results of the discipline and adhere to approved project budgets 
• Fully accountable for the team’s utilisation targets
• Has management and leadership responsibilities for a specific discipline
• Supports business change management initiatives mandated by senior leadership
• Recruits, trains, mentors and evaluates the department’s staff
• Advises local management on growth, staff recruitment and retention strategies

Project Management:

• Acts as Project Manager on large and/or complex projects or programme of projects
• Drives a culture of financial responsibility, ensuring maximum profitability
• Has a extended understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with AECOM’s project delivery procedures
• Should be well versed in the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) to assess progress

Client Relationship Management:

• Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in preparing major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side
• Maintains regular contact with the client to identify pre-released opportunities
• Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and participates in the development of the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise
• Identifies trends, issues and opportunities for their area of the business, industry, service line or process.
• Presents to clients, senior leadership and other project stakeholders to demonstrate progress and clearly explain design principles 

Interdisciplinary Coordination:

• Ensures assigned teams effectively coordinate with the other disciplines to ensure there are no gaps, whilst providing fully coordinated design deliverables. This includes the support of the construction supervision teams

Qualifications
Here is what we are looking for:

• Honours degree in built environment field of study with a minimum of fourteen (14) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• B-Tech degree in built environment field of study with a minimum of fifteen (15) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• National Higher Diploma in built environment field of study with a minimum of sixteen (16) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• National Diploma in built environment field of study with a minimum of seventeen (17) years’ relevant post-graduate experience
• Tertiary qualification in Project Management related field of study, such as procurement, quantity surveying, engineering, architecture, planning, contracting, etc with a minimum of fifteen (15) years’ relevant post-graduate experience

Required:

• Registration as PrCPM with SACPCMP (PrCPM), OR
• Certification as PMP / PgMP / PfMP / PMI-SP / PMI-ACP with PMI