Director, Birmingham Lead

Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

At Currie & Brown, we're in search of an exceptional Director and Office Lead to spearhead our Birmingham office. Are you ready to meet the challenge?

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Senior Director to uphold an exceptional level of service delivery, ensuring successful outcomes for both our clients and team members. They will play a pivotal role in capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as preferred service provider.

Your core duties will involve:

• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
• Full P&L responsibility within the given workstream, requiring the need to monitor and control financial performance
• Financial management of all assigned projects, ensuring budgetary compliance, management of debt and WIP
• Supports the Senior Director in the annual budgeting process for the sector and provides financial forecasts monthly
• Works in a collaborative way with other Directors to share best practice, service delivery, knowledge and resources
• Ensures regular audits and peer reviews are undertaken
• Monitor sub-contractors performance to ensure standard and technical specifications are achieved and aligned with contractual agreements, identifying remedial actions and process changes
• Develops a resource strategy for all direct projects, identifying a pipeline of talent for projected work, and a training and development strategy to maximise the capability of current staff
• Has a clear succession strategy
• Shows excellent communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Responsible for identifying business expansion opportunities ensuring that they meet the required financial targets and returns.
• Operates as a team player at Office, Regional and Group level & leads others in a way which champions best practice and embraces the company values

  What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• BSc in related degree
• Membership of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Technical delivery experience from within the construction industry, ideally consultancy
• Previous operational, financial, full P&L responsibility experience within a global consultancy
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.