Regional Projects Coordinator

Job Title: Regional Programme Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Regional Programme Manager to join our growing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading regional programmes, providing programme management services, and working closely with clients to deliver high-quality results.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a PMO, with oversight of projects at a regional level, and be able to draw on previous project management experience of capital (fit out) projects valued between $2m and $5m USD.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on portfolios of projects with prestigious clients, develop skills within our career framework, and demonstrate a high level of attention to detail, self-motivation, and ability to work unsupervised.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and foster strong relationships with key client stakeholders
• Act as the client's single point of contact for strategy, implementation, and escalation for capital works, blending client-specific requirements with local business needs
• Develop annual capital plans with client CRE leads, including definition of project scope, scale, and budget for incorporation into client capital planning tools, and proactively manage same throughout the capital planning cycle
• Prepare forecasts for project expenditures and assist in the definition of scope and schedule and its management to meet client objectives
• Spearhead client processes for business approval in the region, review before formal submission into client systems
• Where we are the project manager, identify, develop, and gather key resources to lead individual projects
• Communicate and drive compliance in the capture of data necessary to make full use of our and/or client reporting and business intelligence systems
• Ensure that changes to scope or budget are reported on and managed in compliance with client procedures
• Guide project managers and ensure they deliver projects to specification, on time and in budget with the required standards for construction and data quality
• Act as a point of escalation, liaising with country leads to resolve matters that cannot be addressed at a project level
• Promote continuous quality monitoring and drive improvement on projects and documentation
• Ensure structured handover and close-out of projects, including documentation to relevant stakeholders such as FM, Finance etc
• Manage risk related to projects, ensuring project managers adhere to our process and follow client governance processes at all stages of the project
• Monitor adherence to corporate risk policies and practices, holding project managers accountable for mitigating or eliminating risk
• Keep mandated PMO-client reporting tools up-to-date to ensure accurate and effective reporting at all times
• Be an advocate for and assure compliance of health and safety best practice with our and client policy
• Assist in the review and improvement of internal processes and reporting
• Proactively work to resolve deficiencies in project delivery and escalate accordingly to the PMO lead

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Perceptive, self-motivated, collaborative, enthusiastic, with strong organisational and time-management skills
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills, with a passion for quality and an eye for detail
• A good knowledge of industry principles and processes relevant to the role
• Demonstrable experience and an appropriate professional qualification in a construction-related discipline
• Excellent communication skills
• Numerate
• International experience in capital works and/or programs with multiple projects
• Educated to degree in a business-related function
• More than 5 years post-graduate experience in a relevant field of operations

Benefits:

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on portfolios of projects with prestigious clients, develop skills within our career framework, and demonstrate a high level of attention to detail, self-motivation, and ability to work unsupervised.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a PMO, with oversight of projects at a regional level, and be able to draw on previous project management experience of capital (fit out) projects valued between $2m and $5m USD.

Others:

This role interfaces with various stakeholders, including JLL