Project Director - Smart City Delivery Jones Lang LaSalle

As a Project Director Smart City Delivery at JLL, you will provide strategic programme leadership across IT, OT, and construction delivery environments within large-scale, government-level smart city initiatives. You will act as the principal translator between business ambition and technical execution, ensuring successful delivery of complex, multi-faceted programmes that transform urban environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall strategic leadership and direction for large-scale smart city delivery programmes, ensuring alignment with client objectives, government mandates, and public sector requirements

• Convert strategic objectives and public-sector mandates into structured technology delivery programmes, ensuring traceability from requirement to operational outcome

• Direct multi-disciplinary programmes spanning IT, OT, infrastructure, and construction interfaces, applying structured programme management methodologies (e.g., MSP, PMI, PRINCE2)

• Manage competing stakeholder priorities across CIO functions, smart city design teams, delivery authorities, and systems integrators; drive alignment and facilitate risk-balanced decisions in complex governance environments

• Lead programme governance structures, chairing steering committees and programme boards with senior government officials, executive stakeholders, and delivery partners

• Articulate technical decisions in terms of economic, operational, and societal value; maintain oversight of performance metrics, risk registers, commercial exposure, and milestone achievement

• Own project-level P&L responsibility (approximately $5M), managing budgets, financial performance, and commercial outcomes

• Build and maintain full client relationships across technical and commercial dimensions in competitive delivery environments

• Lead, mentor, and develop programme delivery teams, fostering high-performance culture and capability development

• Identify and mitigate programme-level risks, escalating critical issues and implementing resolution strategies

• Drive value realization through continuous monitoring of benefits, outcomes, and performance against business cases

• Navigate complex contractual, political, and organizational landscapes to maintain programme momentum and stakeholder confidence

• Provide executive-level reporting to senior leadership, government entities, and key stakeholders on programme status, risks, and strategic decisions

Your Skills and Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience delivering large-scale, highly complex programmes in smart city, digital transformation, infrastructure, or government technology environments

• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary programmes with IT, OT, construction, and infrastructure components

• Demonstrated success managing government-level stakeholder relationships and navigating public sector delivery environments

• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing project P&L, budgets, and financial performance

• Expert knowledge of programme management methodologies (MSP, PMI, PRINCE2, or equivalent)

• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language and strategic objectives into technical delivery plans

• Extensive experience with governance frameworks, risk management, and stakeholder management in politically sensitive environments

• Proven capability resolving conflicts and driving consensus among diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities

• Strong leadership skills with experience building, managing, and developing high-performing teams

• Deep understanding of smart city technology domains including IT systems, OT infrastructure, IoT platforms, and urban digital services

• Experience managing relationships with master systems integrators, technology vendors, construction partners, and consulting firms

• Outstanding communication and presentation skills with ability to engage confidently with C-suite executives, government officials, and technical teams

• Track record delivering programmes on time, within budget, and to required quality standards in complex, dynamic environments

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or related discipline

• Professional certifications such as MSP Practitioner, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent are highly desirable