Area Manager/Associate Director - PMO Lead - Jaipur

Company Description

Who is Turner Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our Purpose

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our Values

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice.

Job Description

Main Purpose of the position:

To perform tasks to set up and lead various activities related to Retail portfolio of the PMO for overall delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Transform Branch Network

Complete reporting of portfolio performance of business outcomes and new investment strategies
Enable full digital integration to enable clients and colleagues to explore and engage with our new formats and locations
Driving supply chain opportunities to enable the client to spend its money wisely
Establish procurement strategies that enable projects to be delivered in half the time and at lesser costs.

Leadership

Providing programme leadership essential to drive efficiencies and optimization through consistency
Form strategic alliances within supply chain partners to drive connected ecosystems

Governance and Assurance

Leadthe current Transformation global PMO strategic activities and the implementation and operationalization of the assurance framework, cadence and procedures to embed the PMO
Act as the key point of contact, leading and coordinating the GPMO managing stakeholders
Act as a pivotal integrator, aligning client side SMEs and regional programme leads to support alignment and connected ways of working to deliver programme of activities.

Team Management

Lead and coordinate the GPMO team to ensure timely delivery of tactical implementation of process, procedures and outputs including oversight of PMO reporting activities.
Act as first point of escalation for the activities related to PMO for this portfolio

Reporting

Work with key regional stakeholders to manage reporting oversight on the execution of retail programme progress and implementation against schedule and cost baselines
Lead on developing key outputs and have the ability to ‘tell a story’
Support digital portfolio / programme dashboard development

Improvements and Efficiency

Anticipate gaps and opportunities to maintain the momentum of the programme
Challenge the stakeholders’ assumptions and logic based on factual data
Bring structure and actively seek ways of improving current methods, systems and approaches
Analyse data quickly, identify pain points and embed interventions/process improvements

Commercial Management

Lead development of Cost model and evaluate the cost inputs provided by Stakeholders and provide feedback Track project costs and volumes from initiation until completion
Ensure project budgets are kept up to date from initial stages through the change control and variation orders.
Prepare monthly regional project reports and communicate to Project Managers and other stakeholders
Provide financial assurance of the Programme
Develop and update Cost calculator with latest benchmarks
Incorporate new business case financials to the Programme cost reporting.
Lead on data collection, analysis and modelling for the initiative, working closely with the relevant country and regional Finance and Property Management teams to validate the inputs and outputs.

Qualifications

Education - B.E/B.Tech/B.Arch – IT/Comp/ETC preferred
Post Graduate Qualification in relevant field would be an added advantage
You should have relevant experience of working for a IT consultancy in India, be degree educated in a relevant construction subject and have good technical skills
We want applicants with delivery of projects over 500k sq ft in banking and / or commercial sector, clearly banking is most desirable.
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