Programme Manager - Real Estate

At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.



For over 75 years we have been helping our clients deliver on their objectives. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth and we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To reach this goal, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

As a Programme Manager, you will provide end-to-end leadership across the programme lifecycle while also intervening at critical points where specialist expertise or recovery leadership is required. You will be a trusted partner and critical friend, ensuring stakeholder engagement and communication is at the heart of programme success.

Key Responsibilities

• Programme Delivery: Lead the successful execution of small to medium scale transformation/real estate programmes, and own execution of functions/elements of large-scale programmes, ensuring measurable benefits.
• Leadership & Vision: Establish and drive the direction of the programme, empowering and inspiring teams to achieve success.
• Industry Expertise: Apply industry best practice programme management methodologies, preferably in a real estate environment.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Operate across middle management and senior levels, engaging client-side senior managers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• People Management: Act as a first-class people manager, nurturing both internal talent and client teams.
• Commission Management: Ensure compliance with governance and risk management requirements, instilling confidence in senior managers.
• Financial Oversight: Develop a robust financial management process, ensuring transparent and effective reporting.
• Health & Safety: Establish measures to proactively manage programme-wide health and safety risks, ensuring successful safeguards are in place.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and deliver transformation, working alongside senior internal and external stakeholders to achieve exceptional programme success.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Good understanding of programme management requirements and how it relates to real estate
• Ability to work in relevant programme management process and systems
• Excellent communication skills, in person and written
• Degree qualified in a relevant field
• Professional membership desirable

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.