Director of Project Management; Health and Life Sciences

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

To provide expert consultancy and leadership for a team managing health and life sciences infrastructure projects across the UK. Your role focuses on overseeing and delivering the planning, delivery and implementation of significant health and life science capital projects to a range of clients both within the public and private sector. You will oversee a growing team and report into the senior leadership team within the organisation.

• Leading and managing technical complexity, multi‑stakeholder construction projects throughout all RIBA stages, ensuring they are delivering benefits within the agreed quality, time and budget objectives.
• Build strong relationships across our clients and with external partners to manage interdependencies and deliver their objectives.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure technical assurance, planning and business case preparation activities are fully implemented.
• Develop and maintain project plans and determine the appropriate delivery methodology. Setting project controls, managing performance and reporting progress to stakeholders.
• Manage the performance of supply chain partners, collating and reporting on key performance measures and escalating where required.
• Timely drafting and submission of individual client deliverables, which may include option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases, routine reporting and board papers.
• Develop and implement team growth strategies to realise our team growth objectives, in support of WSP’s business plan.
• Provide effective leadership, mentoring, management and support growth within the team.
• Manage profitability of the projects and ensure team utilisation is at target levels.

• The individual holds a built environment Bachelors or Masters degree, together with Chartered or Full Membership of an appropriate professional institution within the built environment, including RICS, APM, RIBA or CIOB.
• Comprehensive track record of managing and delivering construction infrastructure in health, life sciences or public sector environments with tangible, quantified benefits through the entire project lifecycle.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of governance, assurance, planning, budget management, risk and issue management and change control in a construction infrastructure project delivery environment.
• Knowledge and experience of contract and commercial management, including managing contractual claims and contractual variations. Use of NEC3/4 forms of contracts and contract remedies is preferrable.
• Experience of a senior leadership role within a Project & Programme Management consultancy or advisory organisation is preferred.
• Management and development of a high performing team.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholder interests.
• Embracing diversity of nationalities, cultures and perspectives. Demonstrates managerial courage. Provides "actionable" positive and constructive feedback to others in a respectful manner and encourages devolved, empowered leadership. Fosters a culture that generates long‑term learning, cooperation and development of capability. Guides, encourages and supports employees, peers and others in their development by providing feedback and encouragement so they can reach their full potential and achieve a higher level of performance.
• An understanding and appreciation for digital technologies and how they will continue to impact how WSP delivers its services and design for the built environment. An ability to translate digitalisation into new services.

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