Project Director at Turner & Townsend

Job Description

This role reports to the Regional General Manager, Africa, and has full responsibility to deliver the project in full, within budget, and to the target date of June 2025.

The Programme Director will review and familiarize himself with the project plan, budget, structure and time schedule. Any concerns or input will be raised with the Project Sponsors for appropriate action.

The Programme Director will lead an internal project team including; Technical & Supply operations, Civil contractors, Procurement, Human resources, IT, Finance, Legal & regulatory.

The role will include co-ordinating and leading all stakeholders involved, in an effort to deliver the project on time and within budget.

Purpose

To oversee the development of a newly acquired site in Ikeja to accommodate a band-drying tower, and site remodelling, and project manage the closure of the current packing plant in Nigeria and oversee the creation of the new full production facility

Qualifications

• Significant experience of end-to-end leadership of high-value capital projects, ideally in multi-national companies, and ideally in Nigeria.
• Proven stakeholder management, excellent communication, networking and collaboration skills
• Highly desirable experience of delivering complex projects in Nigeria

Additional Information

The Project Director will oversee the Project programme through the following scope of work.

• Lead the programme, including full accountability for workstream planning, development and execution.
• Lead and manage workstream members to deliver workstream deliverables on time and on-budget.
• Liaise regularly with workstream and project team workstream leaders to track and monitor progress against plan, budget and resources. Understanding any market impacts and interdependencies of other workstreams and ensure appropriate communication with stakeholders.
• Identify necessary market processes, controls, and procedures to ensure that the change programme can be managed effectively.
• Support market stakeholders and workstream leaders to ensure all market requirements are understood and integrated into the broader project plan at the appropriate place to ensure overall continuity of supply across the project.
• Provide support and challenge to all workstream and project team members to help identify key dependencies and interdependencies and ensure robustness of project plans.
• Represent the Project at regular Steering Committee Meetings. Prepare and circulate regular updates and reports on progress, as the project demands
• Main a live and regularly updated risk register, with a range of mitigating actions.
• Maintain a "stakeholder map" of key governmental and regulatory contacts, and have a contact plan in place, including helpful contacts in th event of any issues developing.