Head of Architecture

3 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand GHD Full time

Bring your leadership and commercial acumen in delivering projects to GHD This in an incredible opportunity for a motivated and engaging leader who will drive the delivery, strategic initiatives and business development for our **Architecture **group based in either **Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.
Working closely with the Operations Manager Property and Buildings you will have the opportunity to combine your technical knowledge and people skills to take a lead role in developing our National business. You will manage and grow our existing contracts and relationships with private, local government and state sector clients. You will support and grow our people and the Building Services business. Business Development will also be a key part of the position.

This is an exciting time to be working in the Architecture sector and joining GHD will connect you into opportunities both within New Zealand and globally.

**About your new role**:

- Lead the National Architecture Business Group performance, people, and resources.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients (internal and external).
- Work closely with Market Leaders to agree strong market sector alignment for the business plan.
- Provide support to the Operations Manager Property and Buildings and Finance Manager at month end with regard to invoicing and forecasting for Projects within the Business Group.
- Provide leadership to the Business Group in line with GHD's values and objectives.

**About you**:

- Minimum Bachelor's qualification in Architecture
- Strong commercial acumen and strategic focus
- Strong leadership skills and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated experience working in a team leadership position
- Ideally have experience working in a consultancy, and dynamic environment.
- Preferably recognised as a Registered Architect in NZ.

**What's in it for you?**
- A highly supportive and collaborative team environment
- Professional development and ongoing training
- Competitive remuneration plus bonus component
- Flexible working arrangements enabling genuine work-life balance.
- Southern Cross health insurances paid for by GHD (life, trauma and income protection).
- Up to 20 days extra leave with our holiday buy-back scheme
- Strong collaboration with high performing, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Opportunities to learn from our industry experts and technical gurus across APAC
- We will set you up for success with the latest hardware, tools and technology.

Ki GHD, ka ākina te kaimahi e mātou kia tutuki ōna ake moemoeā. Nā te mea, ko te kaha o te tangata te tuarā o te pakihi. Nā reira, he hiahia nō mātou ki te whiwhi kaimahi nō ngā ahurea tuakiri maha, nō whenua rerekē, tane mai, wahine mai.
- We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.#LI-LG1

**Why GHD?**

Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

**Our commitment to you**

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Our Commitment to you

**Who we**
**are**

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

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