Technical Director - Design Management (Multidisciplinary)

Responsible for the financial success of a major project, portfolio or programme of projects or client accounts. Serves as lead on mid-to-large size projects, providing specialised technical input. Presents complex technical solutions to clients and are able to proactively identify opportunities to support the client.Technical Excellence:

- Responsible for the annual business performance of an end market or practice area

- Establishes the end market or practice area's business plan

- Develops client relationships and leading client engagement across the end market

- Creates a pipeline of work for the end market by pursuing opportunities to secure new clients and selling additional work to existing clients

- Drives growth in order to improve profitability

- Leads proposals and bids for opportunities within the end market or practice area

- Accountable for a variety of complex deliverables throughout the lifecycle of multiple projects and programmes

- Manages the resources across an end market or practice area, all within the established budgets

- Responsible for internal and external networking

- Raising the company and professional profile as an industry leader and/or thought leader

- Actively manages and regulates project financial performance and takes corrective actions

- Acts as the APIC Project Director on at least one active project and manages projects using APIC and other systems as relevant

- Responsible for timely cash collection

- Responsible for ensuring that any additional work or changes in scope are approved by clients

- Ensures all deliverables comply with the PDS

- Complies with all QA requirements

-  Interprets benchmark data and presents to clients

- Performs quality control reviews of work developed by others

Team Management:

- Supports the Associate Director and Director in implementing the overall discipline strategic goals

- Responsible for working with the Team Leads and Principals in managing the team

- Provides effective communication of technical and business issues and communicates to all reporting staff and the broader teams

- Accountable for the results of the discipline and adhere to approved project budgets 

- Fully accountable for the team's utilisation targets

- Has management and leadership responsibilities for a specific discipline

- Supports business change management initiatives mandated by senior leadership

- Recruits, trains, mentors and evaluates the department's staff

- Advises local management on growth, staff recruitment and retention strategies

Project Management:

- Acts as Project Manager on large and/or complex projects or programme of projects

- Drives a culture of financial responsibility, ensuring maximum profitability

- Has a extended understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with AECOM’s project delivery procedures

- Should be well versed in the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) to assess progress

Client Relationship Management:

- Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in preparing major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side

- Maintains regular contact with the client to identify pre-released opportunities

- Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and participates in the development of the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise

- Identifies trends, issues and opportunities for their area of the business, industry, service line or process.

- Presents to clients, senior leadership and other project stakeholders to demonstrate progress and clearly explain design principles 

Interdisciplinary Coordination: 

- Ensures assigned teams effectively coordinate with the other disciplines to ensure there are no gaps, whilst providing fully coordinated design deliverables.- This includes the support of the construction supervision teams