About the Role
The Client Director is accountable for program management and delivery, project delivery, client relationship management, and people leadership.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for program management and delivery.
- Plans client programs and assigns project management team members to projects within overall program.
- Identifies program risks and develops and implements mitigation and contingency plans.
- Oversees the development and implementation of project plans and budget, and overall execution of project delivery and close-out requirements.
- Accountable for ensuring project management team delivers projects on-time, within budget, specification and scope, and in compliant with all regulatory, environmental, health and safety requirements.
- Accountable for meeting key performance indicators/metrics for programs managed.
- Accountable for ensuring implementation of effective processes to support optimum project delivery.
- Provides input and contributes to strategic plans for programs managed.
- Accountable for meeting profitability targets and effective accounts receivable management.
- Collaborates with Finance team.
- Develops and maintains effective relationships with clients.
- Position level of client representatives with whom this position interacts with include those at the senior management level.
- Accountable for resolving escalated issues from project management team members, managing client expectations, and ensuring client satisfaction.
- Contributes to acquisition of additional businesses.
- Continuously engages clients in discussions to understand and anticipate needs.
- Identifies and recommends opportunities for additional businesses.
- Provides direct people leadership to project management team members, and indirectly to project coordination and administration team members through subordinate people leaders.
- Accountable for employee engagement, development and performance management, hiring and retention, compensation recommendations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of project management work experience including 3 years managing people.
- Program management & delivery – well-developed program and project management with related experience in delivering programs and projects on-time, on-budget, within specifications and in-compliant with all requirements including but not limited to regulatory, environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- Strategic program management – Developing strategic program management abilities.
- Financial management – well-developed financial management abilities along with proven previous experience.
- Program budget management – well-developed budget development and management abilities along with proven previous experience.
- Program risk mitigation and management – well-developed program risk mitigation and management abilities along with proven previous experience.
- Communication – well-developed communication, influence, persuasion and negotiation skills with proven previous experience in influencing client representatives at the senior management level.
- Relationship building – well-developed relationship building abilities along with proven previous experience in building and maintaining relationships with client representatives at the senior management level.
- Client service orientation – high degree of client service orientation.
- Client management – Well-developed client management abilities along with proven previous experience in managing client representatives at the senior management level.
- People leadership – well-developed people leadership abilities along with proven previous experience in leading, engaging, motivating, managing, developing, attracting and retaining individuals.
- Vendor management – well-developed vendor management abilities along with proven experience in managing vendor performance.
- Quality – possesses a continuous improvement and quality mindset along with a desire to continuously seek and incorporate best practices and technologies in order to optimize program delivery and deliver value to the client.
- Computer proficiency – proficient in and experience with MS Office suite of applications along with proven ability to quickly learn new applications.
Skills
- Program management
- Project delivery
- Client relationship management
- People leadership
- Financial management
- Budget development
- Budget management
- Risk mitigation
- Risk management
- Communication
- Influence
- Persuasion
- Negotiation
- Relationship building
- Client service orientation
- Client management
- Vendor management
- Continuous improvement
- Quality mindset
- MS Office suite
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- 10 years of project management work experience
- 3 years managing people
Education Level
- Community college diploma in architectural technology, construction technology, engineering technology
Salary/Compensations
- $110,770 - $138,463 per annum
