Position summary

Turner & Townsend is hiring an Associate Director to deliver Environmental Due Diligence (EDD) consulting services to clients across its Advisory business. Operating at senior consultant level, the role leads more complex programmes of work, coordinates multiple client projects, demonstrates strong technical expertise, and provides mentoring and management to more junior members of the Technical Due Diligence (TDD) team. The role reports to Dan Hudson and may line manage consultants.

Why this role matters

Turner & Townsend, majority-owned by CBRE, works with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources to deliver impactful projects. This role delivers the environmental due diligence that investor and occupier real estate clients rely on to understand risk and make sound decisions at portfolio and asset level, while building the TDD team’s capability and the firm’s growth.

Key responsibilities

• Lead teams by managing and motivating matrix teams of consultants to deliver high-quality projects, develop their skills and achieve business growth targets.
• Deliver EDD services to clients, including portfolio and asset-level work.
• Drive business development by building relationships with clients, colleagues and other stakeholders to identify opportunities for growth.
• Manage service delivery to meet agreed client outcomes and the commercial targets set for the work.

Team and stakeholders

The role sits within the Advisory department’s Technical Due Diligence team, reporting to Dan Hudson, and may line manage consultants or next-gen talent. It builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and works closely with investor and occupier real estate clients and with CBRE.

Key details

• Full-time, hybrid working, based in London.
• SOX control responsibilities may form part of this role, where applicable.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in Environmental Due Diligence, with an understanding of the business drivers and needs of investor and occupier real estate clients.
• Good experience leading client projects in a large business setting, identifying problems and addressing them with clients or teams in a simple, diagnostic way.
• A natural collaborator, able to foster and maintain relationships and proactively broaden both technical and non-technical skills.
• Excellent, concise communication and presentation skills, able to adapt style to the audience, with strong attention to detail.
• Able to manage client and stakeholder expectations, stay action-focused and practical, and find solutions to problems as they arise.
• A commercial/business approach to delivering financial outcomes, translated into how teams and client work are overseen.
• Able to support challenging conversations with colleagues and clients, and to manage junior team members with clear objectives, timelines and delivery expectations.