Nick Bunford

Nick is a highly successful, experienced, versatile & dynamic executive, with excellent negotiation skills and has the ability to influence senior management, establish and maintain collaborative partnerships and provide thought leadership. With a career spanning over 30 years within the development, construction, and consulting arenas, Nick has an industry wide reputation for successfully delivering both highly challenging and complex commissions, encompassing a significant portfolio of major flagship development assets across both the U.K & EMEA, with excellent client focus, combining clear and strategic planning with outstanding leadership skill sets within strategic decision-making, stakeholder management including owners & investors & other partners, formulating strategies to maximise ROI and to meet business objectives, policy direction, and strategic business planning. Nick is a delivery partner expert and forges collaborative client relationships based on trust, honesty and integrity and has successfully facilitated and galvanised complex global multi-disciplinary teams from inception through to completion, creates robust networks and supply chains, is highly skilled in delivering within new and emerging markets, leads and drives outcomes at all stages with the ability to manage the diverse and multi-cultural deliverables on an international platform. Nick has extensive experience of strategic development and management across a wide range of market streams including residential, commercial, education, pharmaceutical, oil, retail, mixed use, leisure, culture & hotels, for both private and public sector clients, including royal dignitaries. Nick has significant experience of pragmatically delivering each requisite market sector specific accountabilities, is outcome focussed on all stages of client business consideration. Nick’s extensive experience & knowledge allows him to accept challenges as opportunities, Nick has delivered executive roles as a Project Director, Divisional Director, Operations Director and Managing Director, all focussed on delivering exceptional outcomes for Clients. Nick is currently working within the GCC facilitating the implementation of innovative and robust management strategies for several major giga-project portfolio clients. Nick drives collaborative working, implementing his unique attention to detail, empowering teams to successfully manage time, cost, quality and safety, is responsible for formulating and executing development and investment strategies, coordinating all design activities, project development and delivery activities, to manage the feasibility analysis for all elements of the development portfolio, aligning feasibility with the development strategy and investment budget, ensuring that these priorities remain as the fundamental core benchmarks of success.

• Mace Arabia, Operations Director, 01/01/21, Present, Involved with significant initial pre-contract & programme discussions with a giga project client including advice and direction on procurement techniques & risk analysis, which subsequently led to the successful award of a $485 billion contract award. A bespoke employment with a key client of the management of the asset stock portfolio refurbishment programme, which involved over fifty live assets circa a net worth $150 million, employed by a private client to establish a private residential retreat of a defined scheme cost of $649 billion, an evaluation of the live asset to assess risk & development capability. As an operations director I am responsible for the management of project directors and the internal and external teams, accountable for delivery and to add value at every juncture to our client base.
• Caerus group, Owner/ Managing Director, 01/01/15, 12/31/21, Taking ownership for delivering high quality developments on behalf of the client on a consultancy basis. Primarily focusing on ensuring all management facets are delivered to a high standard that exceeds the fundamental business drivers, whilst simultaneously reaching the required quality and environmental standards. Cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with the client using effective communication in order to build a strong rapport and nurture profitable relations. Capitalising on a bespoke management style to galvanise teams towards a common vision that ensures production targets are met. Adopting a calm and logical approach when dealing with any problems during construction, reaching rapid and satisfactory resolutions for all concerned to maintain excellent client relations. Building and cementing key stakeholder partnerships to move each project forward.
• Sand Project Management Ltd, Managing Director, 01/01/04, 12/31/14, Overall remit to deliver large-scale, high-risk schemes on time whilst maintaining high quality standards all within the agreed cost range. Pre-construction mobilisation management and deployment of teams early into the contract to provide the key stabilisation required.
• Mace ltd, Clients Project Manager/ Associate Director, 01/01/00, 12/31/04, Implemented the rebranding of all stores with a value of £30m, upgrading to the new corporate image fostering close client relationships to ensure and maximise on continued profitability of each store and the seamless phasing of rebranding.

• Onc in building technology
• Hnc in building technology
• CIOB in Building Studies

• Safety
• Quality assurance
• BIM Management
• Cost Modelling
• Risk Management
• AI Analysis