Associate Director, Infrastructure Advisory

Turner & 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.
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Due to existing successes and future growth ambitions, we are looking for a high-caliber Associate Director to support client delivery and future growth across our infrastructure advisory service line. As a senior member of our growing team, you would be working to help us make a difference with our clients in delivering high-quality advisory services across the infrastructure sector (transport, water, environmental resilience) in Ireland, and drive business growth. You would be based in either our Dublin or Belfast office and likely spend your time with colleagues and client teams across the island. In return, there is ample opportunity to thrive, own your career and reach your potential, from within an inclusive, engaging, and supportive culture. The only boundary is your imagination.

Our team advises across the entire project lifecycle from strategic assessment and organisational design to delivery strategies and in-service asset management. Our core services across the project lifecycle include: 

Inception 

• Strategic assessment reports and business cases  

• Target operating models 

• Delivery models 
• Programme governance and assurance frameworks
• Strategic plans and prioritisation  

• Requirements management and scoping  

• Strategic procurement and contracting models  

Initiation 

• Organisational design and development  
• Change management, culture and behaviors establishment 
• Capability and resourcing analysis  
• Governance arrangements and ways of working  
• Stakeholder strategies and interface management  
• Systems, data and reporting requirements  
• Risk management strategies  

In Flight 

• Progressive assurance  
• Stage gate assessments  
• Maturity assessments  
• Turnaround reviews and strategies  
• Benefits realisation and risk management

In service 

• Post project reviews  
• Asset management strategies  
• Lessons learned management 

In addition to client service, as a leader in the organisation, you will be asked support the operations of the Turner & Townsend Infrastructure Ireland business across service quality, people management and winning initiatives.

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend work on business initiatives and a broad range of projects and programmes. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience, and behavioural attributes: 

• Significant experience in managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure projects/programmes across the lifecycle, ideally across sectors and clients. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy. 
• Excellent leadership skills, capable of setting high standards and managing performance against these, utilising people and resources efficiently to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Able to succeed in ambiguous and challenging environments. 
• Leads and is accountable for the health, safety, and wellbeing of those within your sphere of responsibility. 
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and determine applicable solutions, innovating as necessary, through your depth of understanding of stakeholder needs. Can do this sustainably. 
• Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, driving a ‘one business’ collaboration mindset within T&T and across clients. 
• Foster client and industry partnerships, developing and growing relationships. 
• Able to use your leadership skills and influence to bring our purpose and vision to life, expanding your impact as you do. 
• Coach and mentor others and encourage the development of people around you, and you have a thirst for learning; using this to develop best practice. You spot, harness and nurture emerging potential. 
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with a diverse range of personalities across clients and partner organisations and able to build long-term trusted advisor relationships with our clients. 
• Creative, curious and growth mindset. 
• Promoter of inclusive environments, acting as a role model.

• Degree in business, management, finance, economics, construction or infrastructure related subject, or equivalent experience. 
• Professional affiliation and qualification status with the APM, RICS, IEI, ICE, CAI or similar professional institution desirable.

Experience and Attributes

• 8+ years’ experience in the infrastructure sector, with considerable experience providing advisory services like the above to key infrastructure clients in Ireland / Northern Ireland. 
• Significant experience of forming and leading teams in the delivery of high-quality outcomes for clients. 
• Deep understanding of the infrastructure landscape across Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as familiarity with functioning of public sector organisations, non-departmental and arm’s length bodies. 
• Experience of building strong client relationships and leading business development activities. 
• Deep passion for solving infrastructure challenges. 
• Strategic and logical thinker with excellent analytical skills.  
• Excellent relationship-building, communication, report writing and presentation skills.

What we offer you:

• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 8% Pension
• 23 days Annual leave (+ 2 company days)
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

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.

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