Project Director – Luxury Real Estate Jobs at Mapusa, Goa, India Full Time

About Isprava

Isprava is a leader in the luxury holiday home market in India specializing in serving discerning clientele along two fronts:

1. o Design, construction, furnishing, styling and management of sophisticated luxury homes that celebrate heritage alongside modernity and sustainability.
2. o Hospitality Services, Refurbishment, and Rental Management for luxury holiday homes curated from an exclusive list of homeowners.

A testament to Isprava’s offering is our distinctive client list comprising prominent business and sports personalities and reputed professionals from across the globe like Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-Founder Infosys), Sunil Gavaskar (Legendary Cricketer), and Farah Khan (Bollywood Filmmaker and Writer) amongst others.

Isprava also boasts a diverse group of marquee investors including some of the world’s largest family offices like the Godrej and Piramal family office alongside other reputed global professionals. Headquartered in Mumbai, our projects are spread across Goa, the Nilgiris, Alibaug, Kasauli, and various other locations.

Isprava is positioned for significant growth in the next few years and is perfect for entrepreneurial individuals who enjoy a flat, flexible and fast-paced workplace.

For more information about us login to www.isprava.com

Position: Project Director

Location: Mumbai (should be open to travel within India)

Role summary:

The role will be responsible for driving and owning the entire project life cycle from design, construction, and project costs. Incumbent will be expected to support the head of operations in running the project operations on a day-to-day basis. Including building & managing teams, troubleshooting & problem solving, running reviews, driving targets, and complete time, cost & quality ownership for delivery of projects.

A proven Leader who can get the design and constructions team together. Candidate should be comfortable to dive into project details with the team, and zooming out to design the processes and systems that will help the business to scale up. The candidates work output is critical to the success of Isprava, since the foundation of our business is our physical locations and your output will directly impact the experiences of our local teams and members.

Key Responsibilities:

Development and Implementation of a Business Strategy

• Build and lead strategy and execution across design, pre-construction, construction, project management and procurement
• Handle escalations and remove project roadblocks by weighing key stakeholder inputs
• Work with the Head of Operations to identify the initiatives/tasks of strategic importance and operational improvement that need to be pursued
• Lead, cascade and communicate the strategy into operational units and the cross teams
• Identify and align appropriate resources
• Support feasibility studies to new geographies
• Manage high level business partnerships
• Demonstrate awareness of organisation’s operations and client needs

Budget and Financial Management

• Analyze monthly Project accounts and identify and control variances
• Take appropriate action to ensure adherence to expense budgets
• Continually seek new ways to improve financial efficiency
• Proactively seek to identify and manage risk
• Assist and support the procurement team in contract management, negotiations and closures.

Business Operations Management

• Support the Head of Operations in running the function on a day-to-day basis
• Create a culture that is built on continuous learning, innovation, and improvement to ensure operational excellence
• Support decisions making with fact-based data analysis, discussions with senior management to enable timely decisions
• Working on new business set up or process improvement initiatives as per requirement from time to time
• Take ownership of analysis of periodic (weekly & monthly) reporting activities and other top management reviews

Stakeholder Management

• To own and drive key initiatives & projects across functions / verticals as required
• Conduct discussions with other Leaders/Senior Executives and come up with specific insights and actions plans needed to drive process improvements

People Management

• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports, managing their performance in relation to quality standards, HR processes and agreed benchmarks and objectives, focusing on all aspects of sound
• People management:

 Recruitment

 Development

 Remuneration and Rewards

 Performance Management

 Career path planning

 On-the-job training, coaching & mentoring

• Motivate, delegate and empower appropriately, enabling direct reports to take responsibility and display creativity, initiative and commercial acumen

Teamwork and self-management

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures
• Plan and prioritize, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs
• Manage own career development by staying abreast of any technical and industry changes

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Key Requirements:

• 15+ years of Project/Construction management experience in Real Estate, Hospitality, Manufacturing or Entrepreneurship
• 5-8 years of experience in building, managing and driving large teams
• Experience running operations in multiple locations
• Background in production, operation, and supply chain management from greenfield to execution is a plus
• Experience in working and driving cross functional teams, negotiations & stakeholder management
• Should have worked in fast paced organizations
• Team building, recruiting, management and review
• System and process-driven
• Data analysis and problem solving

Reporting to Head of Operations