Job Description – Head – Construction / Real Estate

Role Purpose

Leadership role with strong regional responsibility (Asia Pacific Japan), combining strategic governance (20%) with hands-on delivery (80%) of complex capital construction projects across the region with heavy focus on India.

Key Responsibilities

•            Provide strategic leadership and governance for large-scale real estate construction projects, ensuring alignment with global standards, policies, cost frameworks, HSE, quality, and sustainability requirements.

•            End-to-end responsibility for planning, execution, and delivery of complex construction and fit-out projects, from early concept through realization and handover.

•            Act as a senior orchestration role between global stakeholders, regional business units, external consultants, contractors, and authorities.

•            Ensure cost, schedule, quality, and HSE compliance, including proactive management of scope changes, risks, and commercial impacts.

•            Drive project controls: budgeting, forecasting, business case reviews, performance tracking, and transparent reporting to senior management.

•            Steer and challenge external partners and consultants to safeguard design integrity, value for money, and schedule discipline.

•            Define and enforce global frameworks, standards, and best practices for construction delivery and project management.

•            Represent the project owner at senior level in negotiations, approvals, and steering topics

•            Ensure user and operational requirements are clearly translated into project scope and implemented sustainably for long-term operations.

Key Skills

•            Expected to operate with high autonomy, senior judgment, and decision-making authority.

•            Acts as a thought leader and senior expert

•            Leading the team as line manager.

•            Strong international interface: role requires frequent interaction with global leadership and partners.

Qualifications:

B. Tech / M. Tech – Civil Engineering

Experience

15-20 years of experience preferably from large construction & development industry