Overview
You will lead the UK Fire Life Safety business from London, turning an established platform into a significant growth engine. You’ll own the strategy, P&L, and revenue growth while shaping client relationships and building a high-performing team. Collaborating with senior technical leadership, you’ll balance commercial leadership with deep Fire Engineering credibility to deliver complex projects. This is a rare, entrepreneurial opportunity within a respected international firm. You’ll drive impact across markets and potentially extend influence beyond London.
Pay / Benefits
- highly competitive salary
- wider benefits
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of developing the UK Fire Life Safety business from London
- Manage P&L, grow revenue and profitability
- Strengthen existing client relationships and open new ones
- Build and lead the required team to support growth
- Develop and implement market strategy with autonomy on how to achieve targets
- Collaborate with senior technical leadership while focusing on strategic, commercial and leadership aspects
- Represent the Fire Engineering business at senior client level
- Identify opportunities across sectors and leverage wider international capability to create new business
Key requirements
- Chartered Engineer status
- Strong background in Fire Engineering / Fire Life Safety consultancy
- Proven track record of winning and developing work
- Established relationships in London and wider UK built environment
- Experience with architects, developers, project managers, end users and multidisciplinary design teams
- Commercial understanding including revenue forecasting and P&L responsibility
- Experience building, leading and developing teams
- Ability to represent the business at senior client level
- Entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to build something new
- entrepreneurial mindset
- leadership
- credibility with clients
- Fire Engineering / Fire Life Safety consultancy
- P&L management and revenue forecasting
- business development
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