Practice Lead in Cardiff

Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions. Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future. Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight and collaboration.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Practice Lead to join our Amey Consulting Geotechnics team in the UK. This is a senior leadership opportunity to set the direction for our Geotech capabilities; shaping technical excellence, delivery performance and long-term growth across a high-profile portfolio of work.

Responsible for the professional development and people management of all practice resources and ensuring optimum level of skill and capability required to deliver both existing projects and the pipeline. You will lead and inspire, setting professional standards, building a strong talent pipeline, and creating the capacity and succession needed to deliver consistently for clients, today and into the future.

Alongside practice leadership, you will develop compelling client propositions and differentiated offerings, championing innovation, and building our external profile through thought leadership. Working closely with peers across the practice and client delivery teams, you will help win, shape, and deliver solutions that make a measurable difference.

The role:

• Collaborates across the business to develop innovative industry leading client solutions.
• Proposition development and innovation, ensuring development of industry leading and value adding solutions for our clients.
• Liaises with Business Development colleagues to develop pipeline and associated resource requirements.
• Provides input into Strategy and Business Development function on market trends and developments.
• Liaises with Business Director and Client Delivery Directors to understand resource requirements and provide expert input into shaping project & resourcing plans.
• Liaises with Operations colleagues to clarify forward resource requirements supply and demand.
• Actively inputs into bidding activity including development of win strategy and delivery of bid content.
• Identifies and engages with key stakeholders to ensure robust resource management ensuring the practice is able to respond to resource requirements from projects and bids as required including attracting new talent into the organisation.
• Accountable for the economical utilisation of practice resources ensuring optimum level of skill and capability available on time to projects and bids.
• Embeds robust capability management, ensuring optimum level of skill and capability within resource pool.
• Develops clear plans to address any skill shortages or capability gaps.
• Ensures a pipeline of available talent mitigating future resource constraints and evidencing long term workforce planning.
• Drives a culture where Amey Consulting is recognised as a great place to work, upholding Amey values and championing equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Ensures clear governance and reporting in place relating to people resourcing and capability.
• Ensures everyone understands what is expected of them through the setting of robust objectives, and ensures regular feedback is provided to manage performance.
• Embeds best practice people management, engagement, and development.
• Develops robust succession plans and ensures clear career development paths are in place.
• Lead by example embedding zero code and ensuring a robust safety culture.
• Drives change programmes as required to ensure optimum efficiency utilising the practice.

What You Will Bring To Us:

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
• Professional qualification in relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Credible and authentic leader.
• Ability to create and lead high performing teams both remotely and in person.
• Ability to embrace change and drive forward continuous improvement and innovation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement.
• Extensive people management experience, credible leader with evidence of developing engaged and motivated teams.
• Proven experience leading diverse teams.
• Strong technical knowledge in relevant practice area.
• Strong sector knowledge including relevant market opportunity.
• Consultancy background.
• Ability to develop clear client propositions.
• Evidence of thought leadership/industry influence.

What We Can Offer You:

At Amey, we recognise that our biggest asset is our people. That’s why when you join us, we offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.

Career Development:

Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones. We’re huge advocates for professional development and offer a recognition bonus for those achieving professional qualifications.

Work-life Balance:

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part‑time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

Wellbeing:

• Health cash plan.
• 24 GP Support and assistance programmes.
• Wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday.
• Dental vouchers.

EDI:

At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, NeuroDiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.

Social Value:

You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Other Perks and Benefits:

• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to.
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays.
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.

Your Career at Amey Consulting: At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset. You’ll be stretched, but always supported. We recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.