Real Estate Project Director

Description

• Lead the full lifecycle of real estate development projects, ensuring each scheme aligns with the firm’s investment strategy and long-term vision.
• Champion compliance, sustainability objectives, and health and safety best practice throughout all phases of the development cycle.
• Monitor project performance through robust reporting, ensuring transparent communication with senior leadership and investment committees.
• Oversee feasibility, design development, planning, procurement, and construction, upholding exemplary standards of quality, cost efficiency, and programme delivery.
• Direct and coordinate architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors, fostering cohesive collaboration across all technical and commercial workstreams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring the firm’s real estate projects reflect its commitment to excellence, precision, and enduring value
• Manage stakeholder engagement, including local authorities, professional teams, and external partners, representing the organisation with poise and professionalism.
• Provide expert guidance on development appraisals, risk assessments, and value-engineering opportunities to optimise outcomes.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading major real estate development projects within the London market, ideally across multiple asset classes.
• Strong knowledge of UK planning frameworks, construction processes, regulatory standards, and real estate development principles.
• Proven ability to manage full development cycles from early-stage appraisal to delivery, with a strong grasp of both technical and commercial drivers.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with a polished, discreet, and professional manner.
• Strong experience of commercial office projects.
• Exceptional leadership capability, with a track record of guiding multidisciplinary teams and influencing key decision-makers.
• Ideally must have experience working on the client side before
• Comfortable operating in a high-calibre, fast-paced environment that demands sound judgement and meticulous attention to detail.
• Evidence of delivering complex projects on programme, on budget, and to a superior standard of finish.
• Relevant professional qualifications or chartership advantageous.
• Must have UK experience.
• Strong experience working as a Project Director

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance