Director, Strategic Delivery – Construction JAPAC
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Job Description: Director Strategic Delivery Construction Location
Singapore
Regional scope: Southeast Asia (with broader JAPAC alignment)
The APAC Director Strategic Delivery Construction is accountable for the strategic planning governance and successful delivery of construction programs across Southeast Asia. This role ensures projects are delivered safely on schedule and to quality standards while driving consistent regional processes scalable delivery systems and strong stakeholder alignment across Real Estate/Facilities Development Design Network Commissioning Operations and key partners.
This is a senior leadership role that blends program leadership with operational excellencesetting the delivery system for the region while ensuring execution on the ground meets business customer and readiness requirements.
- Own end-to-end delivery outcomes across SE Asia construction programs (new builds expansions retrofits and customer-driven delivery).
- Establish and maintain clear delivery governance: milestones readiness gates reporting cadence and executive decision forums.
- Ensure delivery plans align with business commitments (RFS / Early Access / energisation / network readiness / customer turn-up).
- Implement and continuously improve regional delivery processes (program management change control risk cost QA/QC commissioning readiness handover).
- Standardise operating rhythms: weekly program cycle critical path tracking trend reporting and issue escalation.
- Build repeatable toolsets/templates (dashboards checklists handover packs commissioning readiness risk registers).
- Drive disciplined schedule risk and dependency management across multiple parallel projects.
- Lead critical path intervention and recovery planning when needed (acceleration plans resource smoothing constraint removal).
- Ensure strong management of change claims exposure and commercial discipline in partnership with PMO / Contracts / QS.
- Align Delivery with Design Network Commissioning and Operations to ensure integrated planning and readiness.
- Act as the senior point of contact for delivery execution across internal leadership colocation partners GC/contractors and customers.
- Lead executive-level communicationclear concise data-driven reporting with recommended actions/decisions.
- Champion a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with regional and site safety requirements.
- Drive quality assurance practices: inspections defect management system completion and commissioning readiness.
- Ensure consistent handover and cleanliness standards appropriate to phase (construction commissioning operations).
- Lead and develop a high-performing regional delivery team (Construction Managers Project Managers PMO/program controls etc.).
- Build capacity plans and resource strategies to match the regional pipeline.
- Coach leaders to improve communication stakeholder engagement and disciplined execution.
- Delivery performance: milestone attainment (Early Access / RFS) schedule trend stability and critical path reliability.
- Safety: incident rates audit outcomes and safety culture indicators.
- Quality & readiness: defect closure rates commissioning readiness gates passed handover pack completeness.
- Governance: on-time reporting accurate forecasting effective escalations/decision turnaround.
- Process maturity: adoption of standard regional delivery system; measurable cycle-time reductions and fewer recurring issues.
- 12 years construction/program delivery experience ideally within mission-critical environments (data centers critical infrastructure industrial pharma aviation utilities etc.).
- Proven leadership delivering multi-project portfolios across Southeast Asia.
- Strong understanding of full lifecycle delivery: design coordination construction execution commissioning and operational handover.
- Demonstrated capability building scalable processes and governance frameworks.
- Exceptional stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.
- Familiarity with contract/commercial management and schedule/cost controls.
Preferred
- Experience delivering data center or critical facility programs.
- Knowledge of commissioning frameworks and readiness gating.
- Experience working with colo/partner delivery models and integrated network/customer dependencies.
- Strategic leadership execution focus (can set direction and drive delivery outcomes).
- Program governance and schedule discipline (P6/MS Project familiarity is a plus).
- Strong risk dependency and escalation management.
- High EQ executive communication and cross-cultural leadership.
- Process improvement mindset (Lean/continuous improvement experience beneficial).
Qualifications
Career Level - M4
Required Experience:
Director
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