Head Of Projects

Turner & Townsend
Amsterdam
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Client/stakeholder management","Commercial awareness","Risk management","Team development"]

Lead delivery of a portfolio of construction, fit-out, refurbishment, and workplace projects for key clients in the Netherlands. Provide governance and strategic oversight across the full lifecycle—from brief and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover—ensuring safety, quality, scope, budget, programme, and commercial performance. Serve as senior client point of contact, build and develop the project team, manage stakeholders, and drive business development through bids and proposals.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
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Head Of Projects

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Job Summary

Lead delivery of a portfolio of construction, fit-out, refurbishment, and workplace projects for key clients in the Netherlands. Provide governance and strategic oversight across the full lifecycle—from brief and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover—ensuring safety, quality, scope, budget, programme, and commercial performance. Serve as senior client point of contact, build and develop the project team, manage stakeholders, and drive business development through bids and proposals.
Location: Amsterdam
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide overall leadership and governance across the client’s project portfolio, overseeing projects from initiation through handover.
  • •Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.
  • •Establish delivery strategies, execution plans, programmes, budgets, and risk registers; maintain visibility of portfolio performance.
  • •Act as a senior point of contact for the client and lead governance activities such as progress meetings and decision-making forums.
  • •Take responsibility for financial performance, procurement and contract administration, and lead bids/tenders and proposal development for future opportunities.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience leading construction, fit-out, refurbishment, workplace or commercial property projects.
  • •Proven experience managing multiple projects or a project portfolio.
  • •Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle from brief through to handover.
  • •Experience managing projects up to and/or above €20M.
  • •Professional Project Management qualification (APM, PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent) and NEBOSH (or equivalent) Health & Safety qualification, plus fluent Dutch & English.
Experience:ConstructionReal estateProject management
Education:
Skills:LeadershipClient/stakeholder managementCommercial awarenessRisk managementTeam development
Certifications:APMPRINCE2PMPNEBOSH
Languages:DutchEnglish

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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