Deputy Director

About the Role :

Position Overview:

As the Deputy Director of Project Development Services, you will play a critical role in overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple projects within our organization. You will lead a dedicated team, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest safety and quality standards. Additionally, you will be responsible for driving sales initiatives and meeting revenue targets to support the continued growth of the company.

Scope Management

• Provide governance and functional support to the project team.
• Manage the portfolio of project works within the team’s remit.

Sales and Revenue Generation

• Assist in the development and implementation of sales strategies to drive business growth and achieve revenue targets*Revenue targets will be discussed in alignment with Director at each year’s AOP planning and on regular basis YoY.
• Identify new business opportunities and cultivate relationships with existing and potential clients to expand the company's project portfolio.
• Collaborate with the sales and marketing teams to develop compelling proposals, pitches, and presentations to win new business.
• Track sales metrics and performance indicators, providing regular reports and insights to senior management.
• Deputy Director accountable for team’s profitability, efficiency and resourcing to achieve overall business unit AOP targets.

Contract Management (where applicable in relation to Scope Items)

• Verify evidence of compliance with contract terms for extensions of time and variations.
• Preparing, reviewing and obtaining agreements to enter into contract with clients and supply chain.
• Manage head contract and sub contract negotiations in both traditional consultancy and design & build delivery models.

Planning/Scheduling:

• Interface with Project Managers with regard to schedule status.
• Ensure schedule is aligned to contractual timings where applicable.
• Ensure schedules are rigorous in terms of their practical construct.
• Ensure schedules are rigorous in terms of their contractual construct (where applicable).
• If required, assist with stakeholder management to explain schedule slippage.

Project Control:

• Monitor and review project performance at a high level by regular review of the defining project control metrics of progress and performance management, schedule status against planned, productivity factors and budget performance.
• Monthly review of project progress, financial performance and risk management.
• Provide support to the project in terms of project controls resources, including personnel, systems and hardware.
• View a reduction in tender/ forecast margin as a loss and an improvement on budgeted margin a success.
• Review the mandated reports and investigate any irregularities.
• Produce project documentation and ensure project controls are managed directly where required.

Quality Management:

• Provide functional support to the projects to enable the appropriate delivery of quality outcomes.
• Leverage quality learnings from individual projects across the business unit.
• Facilitate, lead and influence to achieve a culture of quality and continuous improvement across the business unit.
• Actively manage the quality controls, inspections and checks as necessary on projects being managed.

Risk Management:

• Facilitate, lead and influence to achieve a culture of risk awareness and management across the business unit.
• Provide functional risk support to the projects to enable the appropriate delivery of the risk management process.
• Review Project Risk Registers to ensure analysis is fully complete and adequate.
• Ensure Risk Treatment plans are complete and effective.
• Sound working knowledge of quantitative analysis inputs and outputs to guide proper decision making.
• Monitor the effective and accurate interface between Risk Management, project schedule, project financials and other project & commercial management processes.
• Leverage risk management learning’s from individual projects across the business unit.
• Drive the action plans from lessons learnt sessions and drive a “No Blame” culture.

Procurement Management:

• Provide functional support to the projects to enable the appropriate delivery of the procurement process.
• Leverage the procurement process and learnings across the business unit to provide increased effectiveness at individual project levels.
• Prepare tender documentation and manage tender processes
• Prepare recommendations ensuring technical and commercial analysis is carried out on all packages as necessary.

Project Communication:

• Build strong relationship with customers.
• Assess the effectiveness of the project team’s communications outcomes with the critical project stakeholders.
• Communicate regularly with your teams and celebrate and share successes.
• Provide support and coaching to individual Project Managers in their communications dealings with internal and external stakeholders to build confidence and effectiveness.
• Ensure weekly minutes and reports are prepared either directly or through the team being managed.

People Leadership:

• Uphold Cushman & Wakefield values and policies and provide leadership by conducting yourself in accordance with these tenets.
• Lead and manage a team of project managers and coordinators, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to ensure the successful execution of projects.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team, encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide feedback, and identify opportunities for professional developmentMobilise and Demobilise project team.

Project Document Control and Management:

• Liaise with PM to ensure that Cushman & Wakefield document control and management principals are being implemented and adhered to.
• Ensure that the document control and management systems and processes are suitable for the project.
• Ensure that all projects have correct filing conventions, correct reporting templates are being implemented and all project documentation is stored correctly.
• Deputy Director to be accountable for all project filing and correct reporting within their project portfolio throughout all phases of project lifecycle from Initiation, Design, Procurement, Construction and Project Close Out.

Project Management:

• Assist in the development, improvement and regular updating of the Cushman & Wakefield Project Management Methodology (PMM)
• Check to ensure the Cushman & Wakefield Project Management Methodology (PMM) is being followed.
• Provide functional support to the projects to ensure the delivery of the PMM processes.
• Closely review the project reports and assess and manage the performance of the Project Managers and the project team’s under the Deputy Director.
• Leverage the allocation of expertise and learnings across the business unit to provide increased effectiveness at individual project levels.
• Ensure lessons learned and project review findings are actioned and share with the teams, estimators and peers.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield/C&W Services?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions.

We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us