North West & Yorkshire Asset Management Associate Director

Joining Arup

Arup is a trust-owned professional services business employing more than 18,000 designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants and technical specialists globally. Design, creativity and innovation are at the heart of what we do. We are a diverse business that thrives by using knowledge, skill and passion to advise clients on every aspect of the built environment. Our people are drawn together by a distinctive, common culture and a unique set of values.

Arup is an award-winning organisation. We help to shape a sustainable future, particularly through the built environment, as 90% of Arup’s total annual revenues relate to this sector, by investing in research, innovation and creating better solutions for its clients around the world. The firm has worked on many of the world’s most innovative buildings and infrastructure projects.

Arup has a permanent presence in 34 countries with 85 offices across the world offering a fully integrated service to clients across more than 90 disciplines. We bring together professionals from diverse disciplines with complementary skills on a uniquely global scale. Talented people join Arup for the opportunity we provide to work on some of the world’s most exciting projects, to develop a specialism of their own, or simply to find their niche. Excellence has driven the growth of the company and the strong relationships it has with clients and is at the heart of how Arup supports its staff development.

Arup’s Asset Management business is predominantly part of Advisory Services which works across all of Arup’s Portfolios and Geographies. This is a growing service offering, which cuts across our key markets of water, energy, transport and property, with circa 300 people across the UK and 20 in North West & Yorkshire.

Our Asset Management Advisory team provides strategic advice and delivery services to a wide range of clients in the UK and internationally covering:

• Vision and Strategy
• Owner operating Model
• Asset Management capability development
• Digital insights and asset information
• Value driven investment planning
• Asset operational excellence
• Asset owner diagnostic & road mapping

We work alongside wider disciplines to complete studies, interventions and strategies for our clients centred on asset management advisory services.

The Opportunity

The role will involve developing and building Arup’s asset management advisory capability in the UK, Middle East, India and Africa geography, by:

• Developing and managing client relationships, particularly with existing client organisations and internally across Arup so that they understand the capability and value Arup can bring in supporting / delivering asset management programmes
• Developing opportunities with these clients and leading the delivery of bids / proposals supporting the ongoing growth of the business
• Our key focus for items 1 and 2 are in the water and energy sectors
• Taking responsibility for a team, supporting their personal development, providing coaching, addressing performance issues, and undertaking annual appraisals. Recruitment of appropriate individuals to build corporate capacity and capability.
• Strengthening our asset management capability by growing the team and developing their technical skills
• Being the day-to-day project director on a number of our projects, ensuring we deliver agreed outcomes, to the quality expected of Arup within agreed commercial outcomes

To be a recognised Arup voice, providing vision and leadership for programmes and projects across our clients and commissions. To bring a consistent best practice and ‘future fit’ approach to our skills, services, clients, and commissions.

Is this role right for you?

• Proven track record in building long lasting client relationships, developing targeted propositions and winning work for a team
• Experience of the water sector and delivery of asset management work at a strategic and project delivery level.
• Ability and confidence to advise Arup’s clients on asset management delivery strategy, leadership and engagement, vision and outcomes, business case development, establishing governance, developing the delivery model, embedding sustainability and resilience, stakeholder management, and engagement.
• Proven capability in successful asset management programme and project delivery.
• Proven capability to easily “tune in” to the client organisations we are working with – their values and their character. Being comfortable with working as part of their team, but able to bring in the new expertise and thinking that is required.
• Experience of knowledge transfer and capacity building with client teams, supporting their learning and capability building as a key outcome.
• Experience working on politically complex programmes, having the right combination of skills that show respect, humility and understanding of client organisations, and the political and organisational sensitivities involved.
• Experience of successful delivery of complex and challenging projects i.e. delivering to time, cost, quality, and sustainable outcomes.
• Relevant professional qualification – CIWEM, CEng, other asset management qualifications

This role allows flexible working hours and working from home, with the ability to be based in our NWY offices at least three days per week. Travel to and from client sites /or temporary assignments to client’s offices may also be required.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference.

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact Sarah Graham to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

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