Project Director (Healthcare Construction Consultancy)

Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

As a Project Director within AECOM’s London Healthcare Project Management Team, you will be responsible for leading medium to large-scale built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring their successful delivery while continuing to develop your specialised knowledge.

Your role will involve overseeing significant phases of projects, help to guide the business, whilst also fostering client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will drive business development activities and contribute to AECOM's team and organisational growth.

You will join our London Healthcare Project Management team, which forms a key part of our Social Infrastructure global market sector.

We are looking for someone who brings energy and insight, with proven consultancy experience gained through a background working within on major project and frameworks in the Healthcare sector.

Depending on the specific requirements of each project, the role may require you to be based on site and you will need to be prepared to travel to project locations within London and the Southeast.

Lead and Deliver: Drive project delivery on our project management commissions to meet time, budget, and quality requirements, while fostering collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors, and team members.

Examples of duties include:

- Lead the delivery of project management team outputs
- Lead internal AECOM Project Team Meetings and external project meetings
- Co‑ordinate, review and ensure sign‑off of deliverables  
- Lead the management of design teams
- Lead the management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
- Lead the formulation and management of construction contracts
- Provide financial oversight, resource management, strategic guidance/audit & review

Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’ growth.

Examples of duties include:

- Lead the development of strong relationships with clients
- Be the main interface with AECOM clients
- Progress business development opportunities with existing and new clients
- Support ‘winning’ clients, ensuring quality outputs and professional behaviours

Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support junior members of our team in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high performance team culture.

Examples of duties include:

- Provide effective support, supervision and motivation of Project Managers and junior staff
- Ensure staff have current and relevant training
- Provide leadership within the project management business
- Provide leadership and mentoring to the healthcare team
- Support Project Managers through Professional Chartership
- Active involvement in recruitment and retention activities
- Ensure you complete all relevant training

Industry Engagement and Growth: Support bids and business development activities, engage with industry forums and networking events, and take ownership of your professional growth and knowledge-sharing within the organisation.

Examples of duties include:

- Progress business development opportunities 
- Support ‘winning’ clients as part of business development

- Engagement in recruitment (scope candidates, review candidates, interview & provide recommendations)
- Formulate fee proposals

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

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Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

- Extensive experience and technical knowledge in project management within the built environment or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex healthcare projects throughout the full project lifecycle, from business case development through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover and defects resolution.
- Significant healthcare sector experience with a strong understanding of current NHS drivers, challenges, governance requirements and stakeholder environments.
- Experience leading projects and client relationships with executive support; self-directed and experienced in project delivery.
- Strong understanding of NHS business case approval processes, including the ability to support clients in developing robust business and investment cases.
- Demonstrable experience administering and managing construction contracts, including NEC forms of contract, and leading commercial and contractual processes throughout project delivery.
- Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and managing design development through approval and assurance processes.
- Strong understanding of procurement strategies and construction delivery methodologies, with the ability to advise clients on project delivery routes.
- Excellent knowledge of risk, change and stakeholder management, including the ability to establish collaborative project cultures and drive successful project outcomes.
- Experience leading project controls, governance, reporting and assurance processes for major capital projects and programmes.
- Sound understanding of CDM Regulations 2015 and health and safety obligations applicable to healthcare construction projects.
- Outstanding communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple or major projects, workstreams, clients and stakeholders.
- Inclusive leadership skills and relationship management expertise.
- Proven work winning experience in a consultancy environment, including leading major bids and strategic pursuits.
- Experience working on major masterplan, healthcare estate transformation and social infrastructure projects.
- Strong internal team leadership skills and ability to bring large internal teams together.
- Well-developed client account management skills with an established network of clients and consultants in the local market.
- Passionate about delivering high-quality consulting services, and comfortable in the role of lead consultant.
- Able to mentor teams and support people at all grades in their career development.
- Lead on enhancing elements of our best-practice approach to project management.
- Able to lead major bids, including strong commercial acumen and understanding of consultancy pricing structures.
- Be proactive, solution-oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances.
- Lead elements of team management functions, including line management and business development.
- Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB, APM) achieved or commitment to achieve one.
- Ability to support the development of colleagues, particularly towards professional qualifications (e.g., RICS, CIOB, APM).
- Build environment degree and/or recognised project management qualifications would be advantageous.

If you meet some, but not all, of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would still be delighted to hear from you.

Additional Information

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At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address  [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.