Title: Office Director
Reporting to: Executive Vice President
Overview of Role
The Office Director provides strategic leadership and oversees all office operations, delivering cost management, building surveying, project management, and advisory services across a diverse portfolio of projects. This role is responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality service that aligns with and advances client objectives.
The Office Director proactively identifies opportunities to add value throughout the project lifecycle, applying sound judgment and expertise to enhance outcomes. By leveraging a deep understanding of client needs and project dynamics, the Director helps drive successful delivery and ensures projects achieve desired results in terms of scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
Essential Functions
• Identify individual key target clients and contacts for incorporation within business plan
• Build customer relationships to ensure high standards of technical service, secure repeat business and develop profitable workload
• Identify opportunities with existing clients and contacts and follow-up with Principal or President
• Identify opportunities with existing clients to cross sell other services of Rider Levett Bucknall
• Contribute to monthly team meetings and business development activity
• Share marketing information with other regions within Company
• Prepare proposals and fee submissions
• Preparation and delivery of presentations
• Maintain individual project profiles
• Attend external functions to raise the profile of Rider Levett Bucknall and to generate new contacts
• Responsible for all aspects of the delivery of projects from feasibility to handover and maintenance
• Contributes to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
• Contributes to and understands the clients desired project outcomes, identifies opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Adds to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: 4-year college degree in quantity surveying, construction management, architecture or engineering science.
• Minimum Experience required: 5-10 years' relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts required.
• Skills Required: Expert in quantity surveying, cost management, or project management, including planning, development, implementation and evaluation of large, complex projects. Good communication skills required.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
• Often work in an Indoor office environment. Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines. Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.
• May also require:
- Sitting
- Standing for long periods of time
- Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling
