Senior / Manager, Development Capabilities & Initiatives, Group Development Management (Based in SG)

The Role

The position will focus on establish standards and procedures for both technical and commercial aspects for development projects at all stages from feasibilities to project closure.

Job Responsibilities

• Consolidate global best practices to strategically expand and improve procedures, contract standards and design standards.
• Capture lesson learnt and drive value engineering initiatives for new projects to optimize cost.
• Establish clear design guidelines to ensure the developments maintain market leadership.
• Develop and maintain the knowledge database / on-demand portal of knowledge and information that improves efficiency of the organization. 
• Identify opportunities to enhance process documentation and communicate resolution which will improve the process and provide a better user experience.
• Monitor and control internal processes to ensure all commercial activities are using company business tools (e.g. SAP PS/ESS, Filing, ePA, templates, checklists, DOA, etc.,) and are correctly implemented and utilized at all times; from feasibility until final completion and archiving.
• Ensure that Group standards are applied and procedures are followed throughout all of work processes.
• Identify opportunities to ensure compliance of operational documentation, reduce knowledge gaps due to lack of documentation, and support ad hoc documentation escalations.
• Creation, auditing, and maintenance of process documentation in the knowledge database.
• Communicate the knowledge in such way that it is easy to use for all internal stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to solve operational problems by developing knowledge base articles that speed up the problem-solving process. 
• Constant communication across internal functions and senior management and support the knowledge base content creation and maintenance. 

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• Monitor the quality and effectiveness of documentation in the learning environment and outcomes and conduct internal cross learning workshops. 
• Oversee key performance indicators of the projects, including researching / benchmarking against global project KPIs and provide solutions to better the KPIs. 
• Providing commercial direction and instruction to the project team, ensuring they understand key aspects of the contract.
• Reporting on project performance to the senior management; including establishing design, cost and contracts database.
• Assessing and managing project risks.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Architecture or equivalent
• Good subject matter knowledge across the functions of commercial, design, project management and the building process of development projects
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in a professional office or construction organization, preferably with working knowledge of design and build projects.
• Familiar with local and international construction contracts, such as SIA, Redas, PSSCOC, PAM, FIDIC, JCT etc. 
• Experience in commercial, retail, residential, industrial and logistics project types across the regions.
• Promote positive team environment, work collaboratively to maximize synergies especially across the Design and Development management functions of Cost & Contracts and others within and outside Mapletree.
• Good interpersonal skills to prepare reports, negotiate and build relationships with key stakeholders, as well as people management skills.
• Planning, organizing and controlling skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively on tight deadlines.
• Continuous and incremental improvement mindset – questioning and challenging status quo to achieve a better outcome.
• Problem solving and analytical skills which will include for resolving of cost planning, contracts procurement and administration issues for various construction and design activities.
• Good leadership and people management skills
• Dynamic, pro-active and ability to work and deliver results under pressure.
• Possess strong sense of responsibility and accountability.

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