Principal Consultant Asset Management in Birmingham

This is a hybrid role, combining home, client site and office-based working. The role will involve regular travel across the UK to support clients and project delivery, and therefore requires a flexible approach to travel and working locations.

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.

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.

Overview Of The Role: Are you an Asset Management professional, with experience in the Buildings sector? Owing to continued growth within our Buildings Advisory services, particularly Healthcare, we are looking for a Principal Asset Management Consultant with strong experience in Buildings who is passionate about delivering great outcomes for infrastructure owners and operators. As a Principal Asset Management Consultant, you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, providing end-to-end trusted advice to support our clients, to support strategic opportunities in building our asset management services.

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. You will play a key role in supporting our clients to understand and improve the condition, performance and compliance of their assets. Working across a diverse portfolio—spanning public sector buildings, complex estates, and operational environments—you will help inform investment decisions, manage risk, and support reliable service delivery.

Candidate specification: We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of asset management in Buildings and who is proactive and enthusiastic about providing quality service to clients across the broader Asset Management Sector. It's important that we find someone who has a demonstrable passion for delivering asset 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.

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:

• Relevant delivery experience in management consultancy or asset management
• A solid track record working within the Buildings sector, preferably Healthcare across London estates or similar complex environments
• Experience of developing asset management capabilities within organisations and maturing the organisational approach to asset management
• Experience in assessing, analysing and presenting asset condition and performance insights to inform decision-making
• Strong delivery skills and project management experience, ability to lead projects and manage a team of consultants
• Eagerness to develop new skills and commit to further expanding your knowledge within different areas of asset management
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose issues and develop tailored solutions
• Proven experience in supporting clients through key transitions, such as project-to-operations handover, readiness assessments or mobilisation phases

Other desirable qualities include:

• Relationship building skills—ability to develop strong client, team and stakeholder relationships, with confidence engaging at both technical and senior levels
• Ability to interpret data, draw insights and present recommendations clearly and succinctly
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, demonstrating initiative, leadership and adaptability when working autonomously or within wider teams
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written, with the ability to prepare concise reports, dashboards or briefings for client audiences

In addition, periods of travel are expected to be able to support the UK (and on rare occasions international) business.

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.

We offer some fantastic benefits including financial wellbeing, employee ownership, health and wellbeing, lifestyle, enhanced family and carers leave, learning and development, and networks, communities, and social outcomes.