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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
The Associate Director – Data Centre, Business Operations is a leadership role charged with driving the growth, performance, and reputation of our Data Centre business across Spain. This is a pivotal, strategic appointment - offering the opportunity to build on a strong existing platform, elevate our operations to the next stage of maturity and scale, and ensure excellence in project delivery across the region.
Key Responsibilities
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Financial Management:
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Lead monthly financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and job profitability.
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Oversee monthly invoicing for both client (outgoing) and contractor/sub-consultant (incoming) payments.
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Manage annual budgets, fee projections, and associated tracking processes.
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Provide expert support for the effective use of D365, ensuring accurate financial processing and forecasting.
- Commission Oversight:
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Conduct monthly commission reviews to evaluate performance, enhance margin, and improve commission returns.
- Capacity and Capability Build-Up:
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Support to the Sector Lead DC in identify and forecast strategic hiring needs to deliver the sector growth plan, including location and capability requirements.
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Oversee quality assurance, ensuring robust onboarding, training, and mentoring for teams to ensure high standards of performance and quality within projects.
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Continuously refine training methodologies to reflect industry best practice and emerging technologies.
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Collaborate across functions to identify skill gaps and develop targeted capability building solutions.
- Subject Matter Expertise:
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Provide execution assurance for major projects, ensuring delivery excellence.
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Active participation in the company’s DC Improvement and Innovation Plan (PMeI), to ensure the continued pursuit of the objectives of integrating different ways of working across the DC business units,
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Work with the DC Centres of excellence in Spain (CEIs) and with the Technical Department, in order to refine, and share best practices, templates, and processes to strengthen consistency and performance across teams.
Qualifications
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Relevant degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field.
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Minimum 7 years of experience in an operational leadership role within professional services, ideally experiences in the Data Centre sector.
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Experience leading and delivering large‑scale construction projects and programmes.
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Proactive, detail driven, and hands on, with a collaborative approach to problem solving.
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Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage clients and senior management; fluent in Spanish and English.
Additional Information
Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.
We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to hear more about, please submit an application for our recruitment team to review.
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