Director, Capital Investment & Decision Support

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

The Director, Capital Investment & Decision Support will lead and grow AMCL’s Capital Investment & Decision Support capability, working with asset-intensive organizations to improve how they plan, prioritize and make investment decisions across the asset lifecycle.

The role will combine senior client advisory, technical leadership, business development and team leadership. It will support clients across Infrastructure and Energy & Natural Resources to establish practical, evidence-based approaches to asset investment planning, lifecycle decision-making, risk, value and portfolio prioritization.

The Director will work closely with AMCL and Turner & Townsend colleagues across asset management, program and project delivery, controls, cost and commercial management, digital and data, bringing these capabilities together where clients require integrated solution

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex client engagements focused on asset investment planning, lifecycle planning, capital prioritization, value-based decision-making and portfolio optimization.
• Advise senior client leaders on investment strategy, asset risk, lifecycle performance, affordability and long-term capital requirements.
• Develop and apply decision-support frameworks that bring together cost, risk, performance, value and service outcomes to support transparent and defensible investment decisions.
• Lead the development of asset investment strategies, long-term capital and renewal plans, prioritization frameworks, value frameworks, business cases and investment governance.
• Support clients in developing approaches to asset criticality, risk-informed investment, asset health, lifecycle intervention planning and whole-life cost analysis.
• Lead the development and application of multi-criteria decision analysis, value-based decision-making, scenario analysis and other structured approaches to investment prioritization.
• Help clients establish governance, decision rights, processes and controls for capital planning and asset investment decision-making.
• Work with asset information, digital and analytics specialists to improve the quality and use of asset, risk, cost and performance information in investment decisions.
• Provide senior technical leadership and quality assurance across AMCL Capital Investment & Decision Support assignments.
• Develop AMCL propositions, methods, tools and intellectual property within Capital Investment & Decision Support, drawing on global AMCL experience and relevant industry practice.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and identify opportunities to extend AMCL’s support where there is a clear client need.
• Lead and contribute to proposals, pursuits, presentations and commercial development activity.
• Work with AMCL and Turner & Townsend sector and service-line leaders to develop opportunities across Infrastructure and Energy & Natural Resources.
• Lead, coach and develop consultants working across asset investment planning, lifecycle management, risk, value and decision support.
• Contribute to the growth, commercial performance and technical quality of the AMCL business.

Qualifications

Education

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Asset Management, Infrastructure Management, Business, Finance, Economics or a related discipline; or
• An equivalent combination of relevant education and senior professional experience.

Preferred

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline such as Engineering, Business, Asset Management, Finance or Infrastructure Management.
• Executive education in leadership, strategy, infrastructure, investment planning or organizational transformation.

Experience

Required

• 15+ years of relevant experience within asset-intensive organizations, consulting or advisory environments, with significant experience in one or more of the following:
  • Enterprise Asset investment planning.
  • Lifecycle planning.
  • Capital planning and prioritization.
  • Asset management.
  • Risk and value-based decision-making.
  • Infrastructure or utility investment.
  • Portfolio planning and optimization
• Experience Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders on complex investment, asset management or capital-planning decisions.
• Strong experience developing investment frameworks, governance arrangements, decision-support processes and supporting tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between asset performance, risk, lifecycle cost, service outcomes and investment requirements.
• Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary advisory assignments within asset-intensive organizations.
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous client problems, establish a clear analytical approach and translate analysis into practical recommendations.
• Strong experience working across technical, operational, financial and executive stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, manage client relationships and take accountability for the quality and commercial performance of consulting assignments.

Preferred

• Experience within utilities, transportation, infrastructure, energy, public infrastructure or other regulated and asset-intensive sectors.
• Experience developing or implementing Asset Investment Planning approaches within large asset portfolios.
• Experience with whole-life cost modelling, asset criticality, asset health, risk-based prioritization, MCDA, value frameworks or portfolio optimization.
• Experience integrating asset investment planning with enterprise systems, asset information and analytics.
• Experience supporting major capital programs, infrastructure transformation or organizational change.
• Previous consulting or professional-services experience, including proposal development, commercial management and business development.

Certifications

Preferred

• Institute of Asset Management qualification, certification or Diploma.
• Professional Engineering designation or equivalent relevant professional designation.
• Relevant qualifications in finance, risk, project management, economics or investment planning.
• Change management or transformation-related certification where relevant.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of asset management and lifecycle management principles.
• Strong understanding of Asset Investment Planning and capital prioritization.
• Understanding of asset governance, risk management, value-based decision-making and portfolio management.
• Strong commercial and financial awareness, including whole-life cost, affordability, investment trade-offs and business-case development.
• Ability to integrate technical, operational, financial and risk information into clear investment recommendations.
• Strong understanding of governance, decision rights and investment-control processes.
• Working knowledge of asset information, data governance, analytics and enterprise asset-management systems.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with senior executives, technical specialists, operations teams and finance functions.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical capability and structured problem solving.
• Ability to lead and develop teams while maintaining high technical and delivery standards.
• Knowledge of ISO 55000 and relevant asset-management good practice.

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

• 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
• Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
• RRSP option with company matching
• Annual learning and development budget
• Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth
• Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role
• We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days
• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives
• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.