Watts Group Limited
Associate Director Project Management
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The Opportunity:
We are looking for an ambitious Associate Director who wants exposure to interesting and challenging projects, ready to move beyond solely focusing on project delivery to play a meaningful role in shaping the future of a growing consultancy.
This role is ideal for someone who is currently an Associate Director, or a strong and driven Senior Project Manager who is ready to move beyond simply managing large projects and wants to help grow a team, develop client relationships, contribute to business decisions and influence the direction of the business.
Working closely with senior leadership, you will have genuine visibility, autonomy and influence whilst continuing to deliver a diverse portfolio of exciting projects including:
- Grade I & II listed buildings refurbishment works
- High-rise residential cladding remediation and building safety improvement programmes in occupied buildings
- Film Studios and Production Facilities
- Office/Commercial Fitout
- Student Accommodation
- Mixed-use redevelopments
For the right individual, this role offers the opportunity to help build a business rather than simply work within one.
Purpose of the Role
As an Associate Director in the Watts Project Management and Cost Management Team, you will play a key role in our success and growth of the team and business. The role involves project delivery, client account management, business development and team growth responsibilities. You will lead large commissions, support strategic initiatives, and contribute to the continued development of both the team and the wider business.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Lead major projects and programmes, ensuring successful delivery against cost, quality and programme objectives.
- Manage commissions with minimal Director input, providing strategic oversight, governance and risk management.
- Proactively protect clients' commercial interests whilst managing project budgets, resources and programme requirements.
- Identify and mitigate project and service delivery risks at the earliest opportunity.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, consultants and stakeholders, whilst supporting colleagues on larger or more complex commissions.
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Business Development & Client Growth
- Manage and grow key client accounts, generating repeat business and referral opportunities.
- Actively contribute to work-winning activities, including fee proposals, bids and tender submissions.
- Represent Watts at industry events, networking opportunities and client engagements.
- Develop a strong pipeline of opportunities and contribute to achieving business growth objectives.
Team Leadership
- Mentor, support and develop junior team members, including line management.
- Support team recruitment, resource planning, and strategic growth.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing culture through effective delegation, coaching, active listening, and constructive feedback.
- Guide teams through change, champion continuous learning, and role model company values and behaviours.
Quality, Innovation & Best Practice
- Ensure project outputs meet Watts' quality standards through robust quality assurance and review processes.
- Demonstrate excellent report-writing skills and undertake QA reviews of team deliverables prior to Director review.
- Promote innovation, embrace new technologies and tools, and champion continuous improvement and the proactive sharing of best practice across the business.
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Strategic Contribution
- Support business planning and growth initiatives.
- Contribute ideas, innovation and market insight.
- Help shape the future direction of the Project Management service offering.
About You
You will have experience leading and delivering projects within a consultancy, client-side or construction environment and be comfortable leading client relationships, project teams and stakeholder groups.
You are likely operating at Senior Project Manager, Associate or Associate Director level and looking for a role that offers greater influence, leadership opportunities and long-term career progression.
Ideally, you will:
- Hold a degree in a relevant discipline.
- Be professionally qualified or chartered, with RICS, CIOB, APM or similar.
- Have strong commercial awareness and business development acumen
- Experienced across all stages of project delivery including tendering and contract administration.
- Can demonstrate experience procuring and managing multidisciplinary design teams.
- Proficient at Contract Administration using the JCT suite of contracts (among others) and can demonstrate experience dealing with and resolving complex contractual situations.
- Be an effective leader, communicator and relationship builder.
- Enjoy mentoring others and contributing to team growth.
- Be motivated by the opportunity to help shape a growing business.
If you're looking for a role where you'll be trusted, challenged and supported in equal measure, we'd love to hear from you.
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