Managing Consultant - Digital

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.

• 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 achieve:

• 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:

• 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.

• 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.

AI Usage: At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility: We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 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.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

• 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.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

• 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.

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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