Job Description

Turner & Townsend is responsible for leading large-scale, complex digital transformation programs for clients. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on delivery management, ensuring projects meet client objectives and delivering measurable business outcomes. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will guide clients through digital strategy, technology implementation, and organizational change. As part of our Data & Digital growth strategy we are looking to appoint an experienced executive level leader to help accelerate the growth of our team within the Queensland region.

The Data & Digital Advisory Queensland Lead (Director) will be required to lead the growth of our data and digital advisory practice across Queensland. This is a senior, market-facing leadership role that blends trusted client advisory with team management and pipeline ownership. As the Data & Digital Advisory Queensland Lead you will be required to build a sustainable revenue pipeline and delivery team for the region.

To be successful in this role it is expected that you have held senior leadership roles within a consulting company and have experience leading large scale digital transformation projects within the built environment sector (energy and resource sector most preferred). Additionally, it is preferred that you have a pre-established network in region which can help drive growth and revenue for the business with immediate effect.

Key Responsibilities

Growth, Origination & Commercial Ownership

- Generate your own work — originate opportunities through executive relationships,



market presence and a strong personal reputation in the built setting and capital delivery market.

- Build and own a sustainable pipeline of advisory work that underpins practice revenue and margin targets.

- Lead pursuits end to end: shape client problems, develop compelling proposals, price and structure commercial models, and close.

- Own operations and accountability for the data and digital advisory practice in Queensland, including revenue, utilisation and delivery margin.

- Develop go-to-market strategies for priority accounts and sub-sectors, and build strategic partnerships (technology vendors, delivery partners, alliances).

Client Advisory & Delivery

- Act as a trusted advisor to executives and program leadership on enterprise data and digital transformation projects.

- Advise on the digital enablement and operating model for major capital programs — data strategy, program controls, reporting and assurance, and the technology backbone that supports them. This includes the experience deploying capital delivery focused software.

- Lead and quality-assure delivery of complex engagements, holding overall accountability for client outcomes, risk and commercial performance.





- Translate emerging technology — analytics, automation, AI and connected-data approaches — into practical, outcome-focused solutions for capital-intensive clients.

Service Line & Capability Development

- Support/ Lead the establishment of new service offerings that address client needs.

- Shape the practice's investment priorities and make the case for capability, tooling and partnership investment.

- Bring an innovation mindset — continually evolving offerings ahead of market demand.

Market Positioning & Sector Focus

- Establish a clear market voice in Queensland's energy and natural resources sector (preferred focus), and more broadly across built environment and capital delivery.

- Build the firm's profile as a leading data and digital advisor — thought leadership, insight papers, and presence at key industry events and forums.

- Develop and leverage executive-level relationships with owners, operators, delivery agencies and government.

- Support the wider business with sector insight, market positioning and cross-sell into adjacent service lines.

People & Team Leadership

- Build a team around you — attract, hire and develop the practitioners needed to deliver a growing pipeline.

- Create a high-performing, inclusive culture that develops future leaders and retains talent.

- Lead workforce and recruitment planning aligned to pipeline and growth ambitions.

- Coach and mentor senior staff, and model the standards of client service and delivery excellence expected of the practice.

📌 Director Data and Digital Advisory (Brisbane)
🏢 Turner & Townsend
📍 Brisbane