Senior Program Manager- Real Estate Construction

Company Description

From the inception of a project through to completion and beyond, Turner & Townsend help to deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational programs covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery and post-project operations.

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. Working from 118 offices in 50 countries, we make the difference to projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for providing governance and assurance to the client program of projects by establishing the framework, process and procedures for the projects and monitoring the execution teams as they delivery these projects. 

The Senior Program Manager will be reporting to the Turner & Townsend America’s Regional Lead for this role. 

Core Responsibilities 

• Information management systems - Responsible for influencing the use of the agreed information management system by the execution teams as part of their delivery approach at each phase of the project or program. 
• Design management - Responsible for gathering design requirements of the client, end user and stakeholders and documenting in a project or program specific brief as part of the initial definition phase. Responsible for validating corporate standardization with respect to design is used to achieve efficiency and best value.  
• Stakeholder Management - Responsible for identifying delivery and execution stakeholders, maintaining communication, influencing stakeholder involvement, and obtaining input as required.  And responsible for the day-to-day stakeholder interface assuring that projects are delivered to time, cost and quality targets. 
• Funding - Responsible for tracking and communicating to stakeholders all project funding required prior to the initiation capital works aligned to governance structure. 
• Contract Strategy - Responsible for defining the contracting strategy which considers all aspect of the requirements and that motivates performance and assures the delivery of required outcomes are undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Procurement Management - Responsible for defining the procurement approach that is objectively managed and leverages data as part of pre-qualification, bid and evaluation through to contract award and assures the delivery of required outcomes are undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Schedule Management – Develop the master project schedule based on historical data and assure that the execution teams are progress and mounting the project schedules. 
• Document & Data Management - Responsible for monitoring that the collection, storage, and dissemination of project information, is being undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Risk and opportunity management - Responsible for monitoring connected projects risks and opportunities and assessment of their cost and schedule impact is being undertaken by the execution teams align with the identification and implementation of connect projects mitigation plans identified for critical risks and opportunities. 
• Change controls - Responsible for monitoring that the implementation of a robust process which actively manages change, assessing scope, time, cost and quality prior to a change approval decision is required, is being undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Operational Readiness & Transition – Responsible for monitoring that the process for handing projects over to operational teams in an effective integrated manner is being undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Closeout - Responsible for monitoring that the management of the efficient close out of a project including an analysis of outturn cost, schedule, and lessons learned exercise used to inform future projects, is being undertaken by the execution teams. 
• Continuous Improvement - Responsible for the management, identification and implementation of strategic and program improvement initiatives, lessons learned and best practices. 

Qualifications

The candidate should have 10 years of relevant program management experience in the corporate real estate industry. 

The candidate should at a minimum bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Const