Senior Director, Construction Disputes & Advisory (Delay and/or Quantum) - Paris

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

 This position supports the Ankura Construction, Disputes & Advisory Business Group - one of seven practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm.

About Ankura

Ankura is recognised as one of the five fastest growing consulting companies with 2,000 employees across 32 offices in four continents, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.

Practice Overview

We are looking for a ‘rising star’ to complement our talented team of disputes experts. Our construction dispute resolution professionals provide expert advice and independent professional opinion on some of the world’s largest, most complex, and high-profile capital project disputes. Courts, corporations, and tribunals rely on us to get to the nub of the issue in any given dispute. We develop efficient and robust delay analyses and present our conclusions in a clear, concise, and objective manner to enable the resolution of complex disputes.

Role Overview

This is a key role, operating in a fast-paced culture, and will suit a candidate with the ambition and desire to grow and develop in the dispute’s world, whilst we provide the opportunity and training to support you in that endeavour, including excellent networking opportunities. The role will involve frequent client interaction, including preparing and presenting results. 

You will have the opportunity to work with highly reputable, specialist expert witnesses, recognised by Lexology. You will be part of a talented team of experts working on some of the world’s most interesting and significant project disputes.

The international nature of our work means that successful candidates should be prepared to travel globally, sometimes at short notice. You will have the opportunity to broaden your experience by working on complex and landmark projects in the construction and engineering sector all over the globe including France.

Why Join Ankura

• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.

• Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.

• Work within a team of world recognised leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.

• Work with a collaborative environment, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.

Requirements:

• You will be an experienced people manager running small teams, comfortable delegating and actively supporting the development of junior members of the team.

• Whilst experience of giving evidence / testifying isn’t necessary at this stage, you will have an aspiration to do so in the future.

• You may not yet be generating leads but may be starting to get appointments in your own right and are comfortable actively networking.

• You will have a background in construction or engineering with a related degree.

• Professional chartered membership desirable e.g., RICS, ICE.

• Broad experience across a range of large infrastructure construction projects (power, oil & gas, infrastructure, buildings, public works).

• Demonstrable Planning or Project Management experience skills including compiling and/or reviewing claims.

• Strong understanding of recognised delay and/or quantum analysis methodologies.

• Have a good understanding of project control and management systems.

• Be able to analyse and assess project data and documentation.

• Excellent report writing skills.

• Experienced in the production of comprehensive delay and/or quantum analyses and high-quality graphics.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Good analytical and data management skills.

• Problem solver with an enquiring mind.

• Good team working skills and the ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure within a team or as an individual.

• Due to the nature of our client work including translation of documents, candidates should be fluent in English and French, which is essential to the role.

• Travel flexible both national and international.

This role is with Ankura, but the successful candidate will be employed via our local PEO partner, who acts as our employer of record in France. You will work fully as part of the Ankura team.

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