Associate Director – Programme Management

• Full-time

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

For 75 years we have been leading the delivery of major transformational programmes. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 110 offices worldwide.

Further to this success we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To achieve this, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

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.

As an Associate Director in Programme Management and Programme Management Office delivery, you will have experience in playing pivotal roles in £250m-£500m+ major capital programmes, across complex construction environments within sectors such as Central Government, Industrial, Life Sciences, Data Centres and Defence.

You play a critical role in driving excellence in programme management performance, client delivery, business performance and team leadership. Supporting the Programme Director/Leader, you provide leadership across major programmes, ensuring clarity of direction, performance of programme functions, robust governance, compliance, outcomes delivery, and trusted client partnership.

You shape and deliver programme strategy and establish and maintain successful stakeholder relations with client leaders and your teams across complex construction environments.

You are a credible and accomplished programme delivery professional with a proven track record of delivering complex programmes. You bring significant construction programme expertise, with the ability to operate efficiently and effectively between strategic programme leadership and project-level detail, influencing key stakeholders and driving progress and detailed investment decisions.

You drive programmes from early-stage definition and mobilisation through execution, transition and benefits realisation. Working across multi-disciplinary teams and complex stakeholder environments, you provide the leadership, governance and commercial acumen required to deliver successful outcomes with clarity, control and confidence for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Programme Leadership & Direction: Take end-to-end ownership of shaping, embedding, and communicating programme vision and direction. Effectively empower, motivate, and guide high-performing teams to drive success and cohesion across delivery activities.
• Assurance Framework: Maintain and deliver frameworks for robust management and control of the programme. Manage critical programme functions/services within the wider controls framework, and a focus on outcomes and the realisation of benefits back to the business case and organisational strategy.
• Commission Management and Business Development: Lead the successful commercial and contractual management of commissions, ensuring delivery excellence, client satisfaction and achievement of performance objectives. Develop trusted client partnerships, identify strategic growth opportunities and actively contribute to business development and market expansion activities.
• Stakeholder Strategy & Engagement: Create structured stakeholder engagement and decision-making frameworks, ensuring all programme stakeholders across…