Project Director (Healthcare Construction Consultancy)

Overview

As Project Director in AECOM’s London Healthcare PM Team, you’ll lead medium-to-large built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery. You’ll guide project delivery while expanding your healthcare domain expertise and strengthening client and consultant relationships. You’ll drive business development and contribute to team growth within the Social Infrastructure market. This role combines hands-on project leadership with strategic oversight, impacting healthcare estates across London and the Southeast.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• well-being programs
• flexible benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of project management outputs across projects
• Chair internal and external project meetings and coordinate reviews and sign-offs
• Oversee design team management and tender/contract processes
• Formulate and manage construction contracts and provide financial oversight
• Drive client-centric service, align outcomes with client objectives, and support business growth
• Mentor junior staff, support charterships, and contribute to talent development
• Support bids, industry engagement, and network within the organisation
• Lead major bids and maintain strong commercial acumen in consultancy pricing
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design delivery and risk/quality governance
• Contribute to best-practice enhancements in project management
• Lead on recruitment and staff development activities
• Ensure compliance with health and safety and CDM regulations

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in project management within built environment or construction, with healthcare project delivery across full lifecycle
• Strong healthcare sector experience and understanding of NHS drivers, governance, and stakeholder environments
• Proven ability to lead projects and client relationships with executive support
• Experience with NHS business case processes and supporting business/investment case development
• Experience administering NEC contracts and leading commercial/contractual processes
• Leadership of multidisciplinary design teams and design development through approvals
• Procurement strategy knowledge and construction delivery methodologies advising clients on delivery routes
• Strong risk, change, stakeholder management and governance skills
• Project controls, governance, reporting and assurance for major capital projects/programmes
• CDM Regulations 2015 knowledge and health and safety obligations in healthcare construction
• Outstanding communication/organization skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams and clients
• Inclusive leadership and relationship management expertise
• Proven work-winning experience in consultancy, including bids and strategic pursuits
• Experience on major masterplan and healthcare estate transformation projects
• Strong internal team leadership and client account management
• Mentor abilities and support for professional qualifications (RICS/CIOB/APM)
• Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB, APM) achieved or commitment to achieve one
• Environment/building degree and/or recognised project management qualifications advantageous
• Willingness to travel to project locations and on-site work as required

• relationship-building
• leadership
• mentoring
• NEC forms of contract
• construction contract management
• project controls and governance

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