Managing Consultant - Digital

Location/s:

Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol; UK

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.

About The Business Unit

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

You will lead and deliver complex digital and data-enabled assignments across project, programme and PMO environments. Working with project teams and senior stakeholders, you will combine high-level specialist advice with practical delivery to improve information, reporting, automation, data quality and decision support.

You will lead workstreams from discovery through implementation, assurance, adoption and handover. At Grade E, the role also includes supervising and coaching colleagues, reviewing delivery quality, building trusted client relationships and contributing to the development of repeatable Digital PMO services and new opportunities.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead complex digital and data workstreams, managing scope, priorities, risks, decisions, dependencies and delivery outcomes
• Provide high-level specialist advice on digital delivery, analytics, reporting, information management, automation and data quality in PMO and project controls settings
• Engage senior client and internal stakeholders to define outcomes, challenge assumptions, prioritise requirements and agree proportionate delivery approaches
• Oversee the design and delivery of dashboards, data models, integration pipelines, workflow automation, collaboration environments and management information products
• Establish proportionate governance, architecture, data lineage, security, testing, quality assurance and documentation requirements
• Manage and supervise colleagues, delegate effectively, review outputs and coach junior and mid-career practitioners
• Contribute to bids, proposals, planning, estimating, mobilisation and the development of new or repeatable Digital PMO services
• Build and maintain professional networks across business units, disciplines, clients and relevant external communities
• Identify opportunities for responsible innovation that improve client outcomes, delivery efficiency and service quality

What you will help acheive:

• High-quality digital and data deliverables that address clear client and business needs
• Trusted information and stronger decisions through robust data, transparent assumptions and proportionate controls
• Well-governed solutions that are usable, maintainable and adopted by delivery teams
• Improved team capability through coaching, quality review, reusable assets and knowledge sharing
• Growth of a coherent Digital PMO offering through client engagement, bids, case studies and repeatable service components

Candidate specification

Essential:

• A track record of leading and delivering complex digital, data, analytics or automation assignments in project, programme, PMO or consulting environments
• Ability to provide high-level specialist advice, make sound delivery decisions and remain accountable for high-quality outcomes
• Experience leading workstreams or supervising others, including delegation, quality review, coaching and development support
• Strong stakeholder and consulting skills, including working with senior clients and translating ambiguous needs into agreed delivery approaches
• Broad practical knowledge across digital reporting, data modelling, information management, workflow automation and solution assurance, with depth in at least one area
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, service development or business growth and building networks across teams, clients or sectors

Desirable:

• Experience in project controls, infrastructure, engineering consultancy, public-sector programmes or another regulated delivery environment
• Practical experience with Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Python, Power Automate, Microsoft Fabric, Azure services, APIs, Git or comparable technologies
• Knowledge of enterprise or project controls platforms such as Primavera P6, Deltek Cobra, SAP, SharePoint or comparable systems
• Experience establishing reusable standards, data products, common data environments, technical assurance or governance frameworks
• A relevant chartered or equivalent professional accreditation, or willingness to work towards one where appropriate to the final role profile

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.

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