Location/s: London, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Cambridge or Leeds but flexibility to be based from any of our UK offices.
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact:Danielle Judd
Hiring manager contact: Amy Greir
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.
We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.
APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.
Overview of the role
Are you an Information Management professional, with experience in one of our key infrastructure growth sectors?
As a Digital Consultant, you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, including in areas such as energy, transport and water sectors. You will play a vital role in growing the business, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities.
About the team:
The vision for our Strategic Advisory portfolio is to empower lasting industry transformation. We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, digital innovation and consulting excellence with our network of collaborative partners. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic and environmental value.
Your contribution:
We are looking for a Digital Consultant with strong experience in at least one of our key growth sectors: Water, Buildings, Rail, Aviation or Defence and who are passionate about delivering great outcomes for infrastructure owners and operators.
You will be part of our entrepreneurial and growing team, providing industry-leading, award-winning consulting services. Together with our clients, we support the creation of information management capability to enable delivery of business objectives and optimise asset performance to deliver outcomes more effectively and allow our clients to make the most of the infrastructure assets they own.
Delivering great work:
Day to day you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, helping to manage concurrent priorities across the team; to support, manage, and direct more junior staff, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. Providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, including in areas such as: energy transport and water sectors. You will play a vital role in growing the business, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities.
Capitalizing on great people and great relationships:
As well as bringing an established network of contacts to the role that will help foster growth of the business, whilst also keeping abreast of industry best practice, we want you to be a proactive participant across the information management markets. It's important that you take every opportunity to enhance the Mott MacDonald brand and highlight our capabilities.
Candidate specification
We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of information management in at least one of our key growth sectors: Water, Buildings, Rail, Aviation or Defence and who is proactive and enthusiastic about providing quality service to clients across the broader Information Management Sector. It's important that we find someone who has a demonstrable passion for delivering information management excellence. A track record in successful project delivery, or significant elements of major project delivery and familiarity with the principles of lean and agile working, are also important.
We are a dynamic and growing team and are challenged to thinking big and scale up fast, which will require a high degree of agility and co-operation across the whole team. To thrive, you'll need strong analytical and leadership skills, be comfortable working with disruptive technologies and at times challenge current practice.
If this sounds like you, we'd also like you to have:
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Experience of infrastructure project delivery processes and information management in capital and construction projects and programmes
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Good technical knowledge and expertise in designing and embedding information management strategies and capability on major infrastructure programmes in line with BS1192 / ISO 19650
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Good familiarity with information requirements documentation and BIM execution plans to facilitate information exchange
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Strong commercial awareness, with knowledge of contractual implications of information requirements and change control
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Understanding of data management concepts and capabilities, including data technology tools to support information management
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Experience in communicating with suppliers around information deliverables, and engaging with BIM and information managers to formulate requirements
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Strong delivery and leadership skills in managing projects
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Strong business analysis and problem-solving skills to develop and deliver tailored solutions for organisations
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Develop and implement strategic plans to help clients achieve their business objectives
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Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions and services
The home office location would ideally be London; however we would consider candidates able to be based at Birmingham, Brighton, Manchester, Cambridge or Leeds. In addition, periods of travel are expected to be able to support the UK (and on rare occasions international) business.
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Financial wellbeing
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We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
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Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
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Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
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Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
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As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Employee Ownership
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Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
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Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
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As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
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Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
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For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
Health and wellbeing
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Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
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Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
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Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
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A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
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Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
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Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
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Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
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Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
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Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
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Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
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Primary annual professional institution subscription.
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A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
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Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
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Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
