Project Director - Public Sector Lead

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Manchester, United Kingdom / Sheffield, United Kingdom / Leeds, United Kingdom / Yorkshire, United Kingdom / Humber, United Kingdom
Recruiter contact: David McFall

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. 
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. 

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

About the unit:

Through APD, Mott MacDonald provides advisory and project, programme and commercial management (PPCM) services to help aviation, highways and rail sector clients deliver transport infrastructure projects both cost-effectively and sustainability. 

Our reach in transportation extends across mainland Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australasia and beyond.  

About the role:

We are currently looking for a Public Sector Account Lead to join a successful and growing Transportation Portfolio in our Advisory and Programme Delivery Unit.
The Public Sector Account Leader for the North will work closely with other Regional Account Leads that report to the Public Sector Principal Account Leader. This role is critical for winning and delivering quality services across the sector, achieving targets by prepositioning and winning work, building and maintaining Mott MacDonald’s relationships with our clients, planning the accounts, and building a client centric experience for repeat and sustainable business. The role will also entail leading and managing the already successful and established team based in the North.
  
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following;

Growth

• Working with our Account Leaders to develop business strategies and successfully deliver against targets agreed from the business plan.
• Developing the Account Client Engagement Plans in line with the Portfolio and Unit Business plan and Sector Strategy.
• Ownership of Client relationships
• Ownership of team and performance
• Collaborating across Mott MacDonald to enhance and develop strong and robust relationships with both existing and new Clients.
• Operating as a trusted advisor to help solve our Clients challenges.
• Maximising the opportunities on our existing Client Frameworks.
• Identifying new opportunities, pre-positioning, and converting them into firm prospects. (Tracked and managed).
• Drive the bidding process, converting prospects into projects ensuring bids are technically and commercially sound.
• Leading in the recruitment and growth of the team across the North

People

• You as regional account lead will be a Highly motivated, individual that is able to design, build, integrate, and manage a multi-discipline PPCM (Project, Programme & Commercial Management) and Advisory team from resources within, and external, to Mott MacDonald.
• You will have several line managers reporting to you, but you will maintain responsibility for the development, wellbeing and utilisation of staff working in the public sector account.

Experience

• Experience in the Public sector with a focus on local government and local authorities.
• Experience in maintaining and managing client relationships to win work. Ideally the candidate would have existing relationships within relevant clients.
• Experience in Project, Programme, and Commercial Management (PPCM) or related Advisory Services 
• Experience in delivering against targets
• Experience in leading a team and managing people at all career stages
• Professionally qualified with a relevant body 
• Leads by example instilling our Mott MacDonald code.
• Experience in NEC/JCT contract administration
• Have the ability and experience in setting up and implementing robust Project Management processes

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification – ideally Project Management/ Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Bachelors Degree
• Chartered Status with the RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE, APM or  other equivalent institution
• APM affiliation (as secondary accreditation)

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.

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 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.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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 and carers leave

• 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.

 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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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