Director, Country Lead

Project Controls
London, England UK
Permanent Full-Time
Hybrid
JobID 5671
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The opportunity

As Country Director, you will lead and grow Linesight’s business in the United Kingdom, fostering a high-performance culture, developing strong teams, and building long-term client partnerships across the Data Centre, Life Sciences, and Hi-Tech sectors.

This role requires a strategic and commercially minded leader who can unite people, establish clear structure, and drive sustainable growth while ensuring operational excellence and alignment with regional and global objectives. You will play a key role in delivering Linesight’s BUILD objectives by strengthening client relationships, enhancing service capability, and expanding market presence.

As Linesight’s senior in-country representative, you will champion cultural, operational, and commercial excellence while overseeing governance, compliance, and risk management. You will also elevate Linesight’s external profile in the market and ensure all business activity aligns with regional and global strategy.


  • Lead, develop, and grow multidisciplinary teams
  • Build strong client relationships and market presence
  • Drive business performance and strategic growth
  • Define and execute market growth strategies across key sectors
  • Strengthen Linesight’s brand visibility and market positioning in Germany
  • Collaborate closely with regional leadership and business support functions including HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Operations
  • Oversee commercial, operational, and delivery performance
  • Ensure governance, compliance, and quality standards
  • Partner with European leadership on strategic priorities

Requirements

  • Proven leadership experience managing and scaling teams or business operations
  • Strong commercial and relationship management capability
  • Experience driving growth, developing market presence, and leading client engagement
  • Strong collaboration skills across multiple business functions and senior stakeholders
  • Experience within Data Centres, Life Sciences, Hi-Tech, consultancy, engineering, construction, professional services, or similar environments
  • Track record of leading people, clients, and business performance
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Fluent German and English
  • Degree or equivalent professional experience preferred

 

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required

 

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About us

Since 1974, we’ve been providing a construction consultancy service that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. It takes a special kind of togetherness to create our thriving, authentic culture. We overcome challenges together, delivering better projects and leveraging innovation. We see the potential in our people and we empower them. We’re a business on a journey – an agile business that is proud to be different. We are Linesight. Dynamic. Driven. Different.

Our approach to DE&I

At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.

As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.  

About Project Controls

Integrated and reliable construction planning, scheduling and project controls expertise are specialized management skills that support the effective use of funds, and provides a project execution roadmap of meaningful progress and realistic forecasts against a baseline. Our expert teams offer critical insights to our clients, to ensure predictability of outcome, timely and informed decision-making, and that the correct processes, tools and reporting are implemented effectively. We have a range of exciting opportunities around the world for professionals in these areas, to further develop their skillset and expertise, and to elevate their career to the next level.

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