Business Group Leader
17 hours ago
**Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanization.**
Leader of a sustainable Business Group with a focus on performance and work winning. Provides strategic vision and guides direction of travel for group development. Promotes success through the delivery of projects that meet or exceed client expectations using staff resources and solutions to achieve profitable outcomes for GHD in line with our core values and culture.
The role in GHD will have clear responsibilities in building and growing our Program Management Office (PMO) business across the UAE.
As a senior leader you will lead our project management team, our construction management team, our design management team, and our program management team. Staying across the core delivery business working to deliver our multi-disciplinary projects as well as our construction management business; you will seek also to grow and develop our PMO offering, demonstrating our existing capabilities. Additionally, you will be able to analyze and define gaps in capability and process in order to define and drive the changes needed to delivery business success.
In addition to growing pipeline and delivering new business you will maintain a role of Project Director able to drive project performance across some of our most high profile and complex engagements.
As a leader in industry the role will also drive our team development across the digital space as an inspirational leader constantly seeking to deliver and evolve new and innovative solutions to impact internal delivery and market delivery.
**Roles and responsibilities**:
- Ensure the safety and well-being of GHD’s people and visitors within the Business Group;
- Develop and implement the Business Group strategy and business plan
- Lead the development of GHD’s performance and work winning culture within the Business Group;
- Working with Technical Service Leaders, develops short and long-term capability, informing the acquisition of skills to support future growth;
- Contribute to GHD’s corporate profile development in the Business Group’s Market Sector(s);
- Working closely with the Market Development Leader and Sector Leaders, lead the development and execution of market strategies and client pursuit plans;
- Lead and undertake relationship building and work winning with clients;
- Monitor the technically and commercially sound delivery of projects and promotes client satisfaction;
- Supports and coaches Team Leaders to deliver utilisation, engagement and performance targets across their teams;
- Develop and mentor Project Managers and Project Directors to deliver quality work on time/budgets;
- Manage risk in compliance with GHD policies and guidelines;
- Promote innovation within the Business Group including the deployment of data-led solutions harnessing automated, digital and technological solution delivery.
**To be successful in this role, you should have**:
- Strong reputation within market/sector and technical area, credible with target clients;
- More than 20 years experience in the Project, program and construction management sector.
- Proven experience as a Project Director.
- Able to lead a team and handle multidisciplinary projects.
- Good Commercial Management experience.
- Excels in successful work-winning, pipeline development and client acquisition;
- Proven experience of developing and implementing business strategies and plans and driving performance;
- Strong track record of leading and managing medium (40-100) sized teams and achievement of performance targets.
- Strong domain knowledge and experience relating to Program and Project Management;
- Demonstrable experience in building and growing PMO businesses.
- Ability to set direction, communicate strategy and inspire confidence;
- Strong communication, relationship building and influencing skills with all levels of management;
- Capacity to plan, lead and manage within a 1-3 year time horizon;
- Capacity to deal with complexity in an operational environment;
- Ability to deal with (lead and manage through) ambiguity;
- Resilient and adaptable.
- Strong domain knowledge and experience relating to Program and Project Management;
- Demonstrable experience in building and growing PMO businesses.
- Ability to set direction, communicate strategy and inspire confidence;
- Strong communication, relationship building and influencing skills with all levels of management;
- Capacity to plan, lead and manage within a 1-3 year time horizon;
- Capacity to deal with complexity in an operational environment;
- Ability to deal with (lead and manage through) ambiguity;
- Resilient and adaptable.
- Strong domain knowledge and experience relating to Program and Project Management;
- Demonstrable experience in building and growing PMO businesses.
- Ability to set direction, communicate strategy and inspire confidence;
- Strong communication,
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