Senior Consultant - Consents Management in Leeds

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, transforming together to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives.

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 has brought innovative thinking to some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges, delivering tangible outcomes for clients.

We are looking for enthusiastic, talented, and proactive individuals to join our Programme Integration team, within Programme Advisory. Our growing team needs people with hands-on experience working in a major project environment.

As part of the Programme Integration team, your key responsibilities will include:

• Working as part of an integrated project team to ensure the delivery of key client deliverables
• Designing and facilitating client workshops and presentations
• Managing client relationships
• Identifying and realising business development opportunities
• Leading or contributing towards the preparation of bid proposals or managing key bids
• Leading internal initiatives within the Programme Advisory team
• Mentoring and/or managing members of the Programme Advisory team

Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge and practical experience of the lifecycle of a consents process from pre to post consent
• Good technical understanding of consents strategy via different consenting routes (i.e. DCO, TWAO, Hybrid Bill)
• Experience of pre-application and liaison with internal and external stakeholders within large and complex organisations
• Experience of coordinating approvals and notifications between all interested parties and managing consent management plans/strategies
• A proven track record of delivering tangible results across a range of projects
• Experience of programme and/or project management within a complex environment with multiple workstreams
• Experience of designing and facilitating client workshops – or the desire to learn
• Experience of managing the production of high-quality deliverables within challenging timescales
• Experience developing productive working relationships and identifying new business opportunities
• Experience in some/all of the following sectors: infrastructure, transportation, utilities, defence, natural resources, and real estate

Skills:

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

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, promoting 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.