Senior EMEIA Design and Construction Leader

• Management of the overall programme for EMEIA  RE approved projects in the  assigned regions (international/ multinationals approach/ responsibility), ensuring delivery to programme addressing within the team as appropriate or flagging for escalation and contractual resolution where necessary.
• Providing formal progress across all assigned projects and ensuring completion of project documentation / reporting consistently with the playbook
• To maintain regular engagement with all related EY Regional Real Estate Leaders to ensure early engagement and ability to provide design input as appropriate
• To own Stakeholder engagement process and ensure adequate targets are agreed and maintained throughout the project which ensuring governance and compliance under RE process is maintained.
• Track and manage all project risks and issues and ensuring appropriate highlight reports are raised with relevant stakeholders
• Control the overall capital budget for the projects, ensuring sub-assigned budgets are maintained within agreed levels and all opportunities for value enhancement or value engineering as considered during the programme
• Support Procurement in the associated tasks of specifying consultant appointments to enable project delivery and in managing the tender of the main contract
• Ensuring key objectives for each project are delivered on time and to the satisfaction of the agreed stakeholders and line with any associated acceptance criteria
• Tracking and raising any resource allocation challenges on projects and engaging with the Real Estate Leader as required
• Owning the project lifecycle including areas such as initial analysis on budgets, project closure, lessons learned sessions, budget reconciliation and finalization of accounts

• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and safe systems of work for all areas within this project through regular engagement with the Enterprise Risk team.
• Ensure appropriate control measures are in place to mitigate any incidents or building outages

• Establish and manage stakeholder expectations on the WOTF D&C responsibilities and be accountable for WOTF D&C scoping and delivery across the area to region, country, and local leadership and project teams and committees
• Develop AREA technical policies and processes for the assigned regions in conjunction with the RREL, the AREL and the Global D&C Leader (Playbook)
• Take a lead position in supporting EMEIA Regional Real Estate Leaders in the D&C part and be accountable for D&C requests and reporting to them as part of a wider team
• Develop in coordination with the  Global D&C Leader the new D&C reporting required to fulfill the Global WOTF 2020 vision for D&C for  EMEIA (in conjunction with Global Playbook)
• Establish robust Project Management System across the area compliant with Global Playbook
• Maintain an agreed Risk Management reporting process for each critical phase and milestone of all projects, time management, critical date management, and stakeholder management – and establish visibility with key stakeholders

• Chair (or participate) in team, supplier and client meetings as appropriate
• Hold team meetings / reporting as required to fulfil the function of the role
• Ensure best practice and external knowledge is maintained and shared with key stakeholders and direct reports. 
• Apply best practice techniques as appropriate.

• Manages and oversees small to medium staff

• Makes regular decisions that impact the firm’s bottom line
• Must be able to make sound judgments after collecting multiple sources of information

• Self starter
• Strategic thinker with an analytical mind
• At least 10 years seniority in the role
• Ability to operate calmly under pressure and manage competing priorities
• Strong influencing skills and an ability to engage within all levels of the firm
• Strong personal awareness
• Willingness to travel
• An excellent understanding of the principals of fitting out offices and refurbishment of spaces
• A strong understanding of technical design matters including HVAC, small power and lighting
• Strong English communication skills (oral/ written)
• Strong relationship management skills including at the Executive/Leadership level
• Strong RE project management skills with the ability to lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teamn
• Experience of working in a virtual team
• Strong negotiation skills and commercially astute
• Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies
• Enthusiastic, committed and determined
• Excellent IT skills with a detailed understanding of MS Project and MS Excel
• Eye for detail

• Excellent track record in all areas of RE project management including successful projects for a large partnership or financial institution of comparable size and complexity and within a regional and/or global environment.
• Substantial experience in managing third party contractors in delivering works in live environments while managing business and personnel risk 
• Strong experience in delivering cultural change through the built environment and how to take stakeholders through a change journey

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