Principal Consultant (Digital, Controls & Reporting)

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.
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Job Description

As a Principal Consultant in our Advisory unit, you will have the opportunity to work on high-profile infrastructure, real estate, or natural resources projects for both private and public clients in the Middle East (KSA). You will support the team in delivering business transformation and advisory services, focusing on digital controls and reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the programmes for all controls & reporting functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Review current reporting practices and outputs, suggest and implement improvements.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. Reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.

Other Responsibilities And Desired Behaviours:

• Client Assessment & Solution Development:
• Programme & Project Management:
• Assess client environments and challenges, utilizing structured approaches to discover, deliver, and implement fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Develop and optimize change strategies, including vision, mission, capability assessment, target operating models, and change management frameworks.
• Create tailored solutions that align with client business models and operating environments.
• Manage and deliver complex business transformation programmes, ensuring successful outcomes.
• Support the development and implementation of programme integration services, including project lifecycle design, governance, benefits management, and stakeholder relationships.
• Contribute to the development of PMO and controls strategies, functional set-up, and optimisation.
• Client Engagement & Relationship Building:
• Internal Development & Business Generation:
• Deliver workshops in virtual and face-to-face environments with senior (C-suite) client representatives.
• Build strong professional relationships with clients, providing excellent communication and influencing skills to support successful outcomes.
• Engage with stakeholders within large and complex organisations, navigating through complex environments.
• Contribute to the internal development of methodologies, product toolkits, and transformation products.
• Support business generation activities such as bids, proposals, and marketing campaigns.
• Mentor and coach team members, contributing to their technical and behavioural development.

Qualifications

• Advanced Power BI skills and experience required.
• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 10 - 15 years’ post graduate experience is required.
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Professional working knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools.

Additional Information

• Key Behaviors:

• Proactive problem-solving and issue resolution.
• Strong client relationship management and communication skills.
• Clear determination to achieve set goals and resilience in the face of challenges.
• Ability to work collaboratively within diverse and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Effective decision-making using a mix of analysis, intuition, and judgment.

• Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Exposure to a wide range of challenging projects.

Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy.  
We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank. 
The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors. 

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