Project Director

Job description

Our client is a premium luxury design studio specializing in high-end, turnkey residential interior design and architectural execution. They focus on bespoke, tailored living spaces for upscale villas, bungalows, and premium duplexes across Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore & Ahmedabad.

1. Role Overview: The Project Director owns every project from design-freeze to signed handover functioning as the single point of accountability for time, cost, quality, and client trust. The primary objective of this role is to remove the founders from day-to-day site execution and to build a highly disciplined, SOP-driven delivery engine capable of scaling up from 12 Cr to 100 Cr+. The Project Director acts as the definitive bridge between clients, design teams, consultants, vendors, and executive leadership.

2. Key Responsibilities:

Delivery Engine: Build, baseline, and own master project schedules. Ensure adherence to timelines across multiple high-end residential and commercial sites.

Process Enforcement: Strictly enforce SOP gates, particularly the Site Survey, Budget Gate, and Execution Handover protocols, ensuring nothing moves to the next stage without formal clearance.

Margin Defense: Protect project gross margins. Review and approve all BOQs, closely manage

vendor pricing, and strictly control and document all change orders.

Scorecard Management: Run rigorous weekly reviews against the Execution Efficiency Scorecard. Report monthly metric performance directly to the Founders.

Client Management: Lead all major client communications during the execution phase. De escalate conflicts, manage expectations, and maintain client trust.

Team Mentorship: Mentor, structure, and grow the current Project Management team and lead recruitment for future execution hires

3. Qualifications & Experience

Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Civil Engineering, or Project Management.

Experience: 1015+ years of core experience in luxury interiors, turnkey fit-outs, or design build delivery; with at least 45 years spent leading multi-project execution teams and managing subordinate PMs.

Hard Skills: Deep understanding of P&L and cost control, BOQ and vendor management, proficiency in MS Project or similar scheduling tools, and SOP-driven project delivery.

Traits: Highly decisive, systems-oriented, exceptionally calm under pressure, and obsessed with on-time, on-budget delivery