Associate Director Project Manager - Retail Construction

Company DescriptionTurner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. Job DescriptionTurner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Associate Director Project Manager to join our team in support of the retail sector. The ideal individual will have prior owner’s representative experience supporting large-scale commercial construction projects.Responsibilities: Manage all project stakeholders including the client’s internal stakeholder groups, architects, engineers, and General Contractors.Manage both the design team and general contractor procurement processes, including preparation of bid documents, addressing pre-bid RFIs and bid leveling.Produce a detailed project schedule, including identification of critical path activities. Throughout the project, effective analyze, track and manage schedule activities to avoid schedule slip.Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized, while ensuring application of T&T best practices on all projects.Production of formal project status reports including monthly reports and others as required by the project. Maintain additional trackers as necessary (permit status, inspection status etc).Ability to oversee multiple construction projects simultaneously including all aspects of time, cost and quality.Ability to generate a high level project budget and/or validate a budget produced by others. Monitor and track budget throughout the project.Oversee the design process ensuring the client’s design standards are incorporated. In addition, conduct drawing reviews checking for completeness and constructibility. Manage the flow of project information across all project team team members ensuring communication is maintained proactively and documented accordingly.Play an active role in issue identification and resolution in both the design and construction process.During construction maintain oversight of the General Contractor including regular site visits, change order reviews, provide an independent review of schedule updates and manage the RFI/submittal process.Identify and manage project risks, dependencies and commercial issues, implementing risk mitigation as appropriate.Client management – maintain a strong working relationship with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.Strategic thinking - provide advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve client objectives and improve T&T processes and best practices.Lessons learned – capture key lessons learned and apply to future projects.SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.QualificationsBachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, architecture or other applicable degree and or equivalent experience.Prior project management experience in retail construction strongly preferred.Minimum 8 years relevant project management experience.Strong organizational and management skills – ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team.Effective presentation skills.Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.Excellent communication skills.Korean language proficiency and/or experience working with Korean clients is a plus.Additional InformationThe salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.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 Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: TwitterInstagramLinkedInIt 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. SummaryType: Full-timeFunction: Project ManagementExperience level: Mid-Senior LevelIndustry: Real Estate