Head of Planning – Design & Construction

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $126k - $148k / year

⏰ Full Time

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CAVU

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501 - 1000 employees

✈️ Travel

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

Travel • Food & Beverage • Logistics

CAVU is a company that specializes in enhancing the travel experience for airport passengers by integrating digital and physical touchpoints within the travel ecosystem. With 80 years of aviation heritage, CAVU offers a comprehensive platform known as The Global Travel Marketplace, which allows passengers to plan and book all their travel needs, including airport parking, lounges, FastTrack, and car rental. The company provides solutions to increase revenue through optimized pricing strategies, digital marketing, and eCommerce platforms that enable upselling and cross-selling. CAVU's extensive global distribution network covers more than 350 airports in over 40 countries, offering a wide range of travel products. The company also designs premium passenger experiences, including luxury airport lounges, fast-track security, and innovative food and beverage concepts, catering to the needs of airlines, travel agents, owners, and operators within the travel industry.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic planning and preconstruction of capital projects across Cavu's airport hospitality portfolio • Assess new opportunities alongside Business Development, challenging assumptions around cost, scope, programme and delivery risk • Lead due diligence, feasibility, design and preconstruction activities to ensure projects are commercially and operationally viable • Develop and manage frameworks for consultants, design firms, project management partners and contractors across Cavu's markets • Oversee budgets, project controls, risk and governance, ensuring projects are set up for successful delivery • Partner with the Capital Delivery team on selected high-profile projects, supporting delivery from award through to opening and close-out

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in design, construction or capital project management, with experience progressing into strategic or programme-level responsibility • Essential aviation/airport experience, with a strong understanding of the complexities of working in live, highly regulated airport environments • Strong preconstruction and project planning experience, including feasibility, bid development, scope definition and risk assessment • Commercially astute, with the confidence to challenge assumptions, manage costs and balance delivery requirements with business objectives • Experience managing consultants, contractors and external partners, ideally across multiple disciplines • Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence senior internal teams and external partners • Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Interior Design or a related field preferred • PMP or similar professional certification would be an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Regular travel, including site visits and occasional travel to the Chicago office • Permanent employment