Turner & Townsend Hiring! Full Time Associate Director, Programme Management in Asia - Ricebowl

Strategic Leadership & Direction

• Align strategic plans, operating frameworks, and delivery approaches to support organizational priorities, stakeholder needs, and desired outcomes.
• Advocate programme objectives and value across key stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making and collaboration across teams.

Governance, Assurance & Risk

• Establish and maintain effective governance frameworks, ensuring adherence to organizational standards, policies, and quality requirements.
• Oversee assurance and review activities to ensure initiatives are well-governed, deliver intended outcomes, and meet compliance expectations.
• Drive consistent performance monitoring and reporting across risks, timelines, budgets, controls, and quality measures.

Programme Delivery & Execution

• Establish and lead programme governance forums, ensuring accurate and concise updates, clear decision pathways and transparent escalation.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of programmes, ensuring scope, milestones, budgets, benefits and risk controls are delivered to time and quality.
• Maintain accurate performance tracking and reporting to support informed decision-making and effective programme oversight.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies to minimize delivery impacts and enable successful outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment, clear accountability, and effective management of delivery challenges.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Develop trusted stakeholder relationships to drive engagement, alignment, and collaboration.
• Provide high-quality reporting and actionable insights to support informed decision-making.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and collaborative problem-solving to achieve strategic and operational goals.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor teams to achieve high performance and strong engagement.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and shared success.

Process Improvement

• Leverage data-driven insights to identify and implement process improvements.
• Promote efficient and effective ways of working through continuous enhancement of processes and systems.
• Support a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and improvement across teams.

• Degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Architecture, or a related disciplines.
• 8–12+ years of experience leading complex programmes, projects, or strategic initiatives in large organizations.
• Relevant programme, project, or change management certifications preferred.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale transformation, operational improvement, or business change initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, cross-functional teams, and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of portfolio, programme, and project management practices.
• Financial and commercial acumen preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility across organizational levels.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, complex, and evolving environments.
• Proactive, resilient, adaptable, and able to navigate ambiguity.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.