Associate Director

Role description:

- Lead the cost and commercial management service across various complex developments
- A significant managerial position, individuals will provide a leadership role to their function and will be accountable for ensuring all work is executed in line with business plans and goals, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field

Role accountabilities:

- Lead, motivate and manage a team of quantity surveying/cost & commercial management professions, setting objectives, reviewing performance and developing skills to ensure the provision of an efficient cost and commercial management service to projects
- Manage the financial performance of cost and commercial management projects across their life cycle, taking responsibility for costs, schedules and efficiency to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved
- Lead and manage the commercial aspects of projects across the organisation, supporting project teams to deliver work within budget and to required contract specifications
- Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure organisational policies and codes of conduct are followed
- Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
- Analyse and review complex information from a range of sources and oversee recommendations provided by other specialists, in order to improve the long-term performance of the cost management service
- Seek to continuously develop processes and lead the implementation of new cost and commercial management system improvements, working to improve services, drive innovation and enhance project delivery
- Manage the overall business relationship with key customers and customer groups in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and drive customer satisfaction
- Act as a lead technical expert, providing strategic advice to other senior managers on cost and commercial management matters, in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
- Manage and build strong working relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop and extend the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

- Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage resources on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between S$10m and S$100m+
- At least 8 years of relevant professional experience within a Project & Cost Management consultancy business that includes delivering large and complex projects across an entire project life cycle
- Proven ability to manage, motivate and lead large teams, and demonstrable leadership ability
- Experience of building and utilising client relationships at executive level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Relevant professional qualification or chartered status

**About Asia Infrastructure Solutions:
**Asia Infrastructure Solutions **is a leader in delivering project & programme management, cost management, sustainable design, engineering, business advisory and consultancy solutions for the infrastructure, buildings, and environmental sectors. The company was established by Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. (GISI), the largest privately owned construction manager in the commercial building, industrial and healthcare markets, and a leading project / construction manager in the environmental and public infrastructure sectors. GISI and its founding members have over 90 years of project experience in Asia and currently employs 12,500 employees globally, operating in more than 90 countries.

Asia Infrastructure Solutions has a strong and diversified team of project managers, construction managers, programme managers, cost managers, sustainability consultants and various disciplines of engineering professionals with a long track record in the infrastructure, building and environmental sectors delivering the future for the built and natural environment. Our professional and technical expertise and capabilities are inherited from the Arcadis Design & Engineering / Hyder / Freeman Fox in Hong Kong and Arcadis Consulting / EC Harris / Davis Langdon & Seah businesses in Singapore which span many decades in the Asia region.

Notable projects in Singapore include the Jewel at Changi, CapitaSpring, the North-South Corridor, various hotels, data centers and corporate headquarters for the world’s leading MNCs to name a few.

We empower our employees to succeed and we invest in their professional growth through learning & development programmes as well as membership of professional bodies. Our employees also receive a range of benefits that includes opportunities for hybrid/flexible working, a share-ownership