Job Title: Project Director - Healthcare.
Location: Ipswich, Hybrid working.
Contract Type: Permanent, Full time.
Salary: £100,000 - £130,000. Depending on candidate experience.
Aldwych Consulting are recruiting for an experienced and highly capable Project Director on behalf of a client, to take a leading role on a major, large-scale hospital development in the UK. This is a pivotal appointment, offering the opportunity to step into a high-profile programme and work closely with an existing senior leader, ensuring continuity and long-term success.
The Opportunity:
This is a hands on Project Director position, suited to someone who enjoys being fully immersed in project delivery rather than operating at a purely strategic or executive level.
You will take ownership of a complex healthcare programme, leading it from the latter stages of design through into construction and delivery, while acting as the key interface between the client, consultant team, and wider programme stakeholders.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Leading the project from late-stage design (RIBA Stage 3/4) through to construction (Stage 5).
- Acting as the primary point of contact for the client, building trust and long-term relationships.
- Overseeing both Project Management and Quantity Surveying functions.
- Managing and coordinating a large, multi-disciplinary consultant team.
- Driving programme performance across cost, programme, and quality.
This is a delivery-focused role where you will be expected to be actively involved in problem-solving, decision-making, and day-to-day project leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the central interface between the client, consultant team, and wider programme stakeholders.
- Lead the day-to-day management of a multi-disciplinary team, including internal project managers, surveyors, and external consultants.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with a demanding and high-profile client.
- Maintain momentum across a fast-paced, politically sensitive and evolving programme.
- Contribute to design development, value engineering, and cost management in a challenging funding environment.
- Oversee procurement processes, including engagement with Tier 1 contractors under NEC forms of contract. NEC experience is essential.
- Develop and review complex project programmes and delivery strategies.
- Provide leadership in a collaborative, team-oriented manner - empowering individuals.
Requirements:
- Proven experience operating at Project Director level on large-scale construction projects.
- Strong track record delivering projects from design through to construction phases.
- Experience working within consultancy environments (client side or contractor backgrounds also considered).
- Demonstrable experience managing complex projects typically £50m - £100m+ in value.
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to manage cost and programme pressures.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, particularly with demanding or high-profile clients.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary consultant teams.
Desirable:
- Experience within healthcare or similarly complex, regulated sectors is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts.
- Professional qualifications such as MRICS or MCIOB.
About you:
- Resilient, with the ability to operate effectively in challenging and evolving environments.
- Hands on and delivery focused, with a proactive mindset.
- Strong relationship builder - able to quickly gain trust and credibility.
- Approachable and team-oriented leadership style.
- Commercially astute and solutions focused.
- Ambitious, with a desire to take ownership of a flagship project.
This is an excellent, and very exciting opportunity, so please get in touch to apply or to find out more information. The recruiter for this vacancy is Lottie Wibrow at Aldwych Consulting.
Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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