Principal Consultant - Consents Management Full-Time in Manchester

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority‑owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Our Programme Advisory team specialises in the strategy, set‑up and transformation of major programmes and asset owning enterprises within the transport, defence, utilities, and power sectors in the UK and internationally.

Since forming in 2018 our growing team of experts have brought innovative thinking to some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges - delivering tangible outcomes for clients by bringing the best of our technical excellence and transformational change capability.

We are an influential team who share a common passion for making change a reality, continually setting new standards. As a diverse and inclusive team of unique individuals, we inspire one another to do better every day. Our collaborative culture also ensures that everyone’s potential is maximised, constantly learning through experience and close team relationships.

Joining the Programme Advisory team will afford you exciting opportunities to directly support world‑renowned clients, enhance your consulting skills, shape your career, and directly contribute to the team’s exciting growth trajectory.

The Opportunity

We are looking for enthusiastic, talented, and proactive individuals to join our Programme Integration team, within Programme Advisory. Our growing Consents Team needs people with hands‑on experience working in a major project environment – whether you’re a champion of change, a connoisseur of consents, environmentalist, stakeholder strategist or the perfect PM we’d love to hear from you about how you could help us to deliver tangible results for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of an integrated project team to ensure the delivery of key client deliverables relating to Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects and programmes: navigating the Development Consents Order, Transport and Works Act and Town & Country Planning processes, across the pre‑/post‑consent stages of the project or programme lifecycle.
• Occupy client or service roles involving consents leadership and management (pre‑ & post‑consent), consent production and delivery, environmental impact assessments, consultation/stakeholder engagement and procedural strategic advisory / assurance.
• Manage client relationships.
• Identify and realise business development opportunities.
• Lead or contribute towards the preparation of bid proposals or manage key bids.
• Lead internal initiatives within the Programme Advisory team, such as the development of programme‑integration products and methodologies.
• Mentor and/or manage members of the Programme Advisory team.
• Line‑manage junior staff (where applicable).

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge and practical experience of the lifecycle of a consents process from pre‑to‑post consent.
• Demonstrable technical understanding of consents strategy via different consenting routes (i.e. DCO, TWAO, Hybrid Bill).
• Demonstrable technical understanding of discharging primary and secondary consents and post‑consent deliverables.
• Experience of pre‑application and/or post‑consent liaison with internal and external stakeholders within large and complex organisations.
• Experience of coordinating approvals and notifications between interested parties and managing consent‑management plans/strategies.
• Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: consents leadership and management (pre‑ & post‑consent), consent production and delivery, environmental impact assessments, consultation‑stakeholder engagement and procedural strategic advisory.
• Experience working in, or being familiar with, a consulting environment (other consultancies or as an internal consultant) or the ability to demonstrate a consulting skillset.
• A proven track record of delivering tangible results across a range of projects, adopting a nimble approach and a can‑do attitude.
• Experience of programme and/or project management within a complex environment with multiple workstreams, including DCO, TWAO and/or TCPA consenting environments.
• Experience of managing the production of high‑quality deliverables within challenging timescales.
• Experience developing productive working relationships and the ability to identify new business opportunities.
• Experience in some/all of the following sectors: infrastructure, transportation, utilities, defence, energy and natural resources (including Nuclear), and real estate.

Skills

• Deep understanding of the planning and development of major projects and programmes.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and critical‑thinking skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent responsibilities.
• A commitment to self‑learning and development.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• High attention to detail.
• Outcomes‑focused.
• Passionate and energetic.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which must be adhered to where applicable.

Principal Consultant - Consents Management Full‑time • Manchester, ENG, GB