Principal / Managing Consultant in London

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

As a Managing Consultant / Principal Consultant in our Business Change & Transformation team, you will help clients navigate complex challenges, unlock opportunities and deliver lasting value beyond capital project delivery. You will lead client‑facing change and transformation assignments, guide multi‑disciplinary teams, assure the quality of outputs and contribute to the continued development of our management consulting capability.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead and deliver multiple, medium complexity change and transformation assignments, or packages of high complexity change projects, applying appropriate governance, commercial discipline and quality controls.
• Lead and manage small and large‑sized change and transformation teams, creating clarity of purpose, inclusive ways of working and a strong focus on measurable client outcomes.
• Promote the benefits of consultancy to clients and advise on appropriate models, methods, tools and frameworks, drawing on relevant examples from multiple sectors.
• Lead analysis activities and define current client capabilities relative to accepted good practice, using evidence to identify gaps, opportunities, next steps and future‑state recommendations.
• Author, review and quality assure key client documentation, including proposals, initiative scoping, planning and resourcing documents, progress reports, outcome reports, business cases, change strategies and implementation plans.
• Check and approve client documentation and deliverables before submission, appropriate to role, project and governance requirements.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness across consultancy delivery, including resourcing, fees, invoicing, margin management, scope control and change management.
• Engage in the design, development and adoption of digital tools and techniques to evolve how consultancy services are delivered.
• Coach, guide and develop colleagues, contributing to an inclusive, supportive and high‑performing team environment.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Relevant degree, postgraduate qualification or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in one or more Business Change & Transformation service lines: business case development, innovation management, business change, organisational design, digital transformation or business improvement.
• Experience leading client‑facing consulting assignments, workstreams or project packages in complex organisations or major programme environments.
• Ability to work effectively in multi‑disciplinary teams and with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior client representatives.
• Awareness of P3M environments, strong numerical skills, commercial awareness and the ability to communicate clearly with different audiences.

Desirable:

• Associate or Chartered Management Consultant accreditation, or equivalent professional status.
• Qualifications or certifications in project management, programme management, innovation, lean, change management, business cases, agile delivery, organisational design or related disciplines.
• Knowledge of the UK’s major infrastructure investment plans and the challenges facing infrastructure owners, operators, public bodies and delivery organisations.

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.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us and we’ll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription. A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.