Principal Information Manager

Location/s: UK Wide
Recruiter contact: David McFall 

Closing Date: 11/04/2025

About our team

We are Transport Mobility Solutions (TMS)
Transport planners and modellers, highway design and asset specialists, technologists, and aviation and carbon consultants. We solve our clients' future transport problems to benefit their customers.

Our vision is to be recognised by the market, and our colleagues at Mott MacDonald, as renowned pioneers in our industry. To lead the way, as a connected centre of technical excellence, industry influence and innovation.

Our goals are:
•    Thriving culture - Inspire and encourage our people through leadership and development to live and breathe the TMS Way.
•    Delivering excellence - Known as a diverse network where people, energy and ideas come together to deliver excellence.
•    Partnering with our clients - Trusted by our clients to understand and deliver on their goals through commercial confidence and collaboration.

Key responsibilities include:

•    Delivering great work by being part of a team that encourages support and mentoring of more junior staff while providing information management direction and technical guidance to the wider department. 
•    Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions and services.

•    Being a proactive participant in the information management market, providing leadership and growth for TMS, consulting with industry colleagues and vendors to ensure Mott MacDonalds leading position in the market.

•    Capitalising on great people and great relationships taking every opportunity to enhance the Mott MacDonald brand and highlight our capabilities.  We want you to help develop our people's capability within the team, giving them the guidance, mentoring and support needed to become high-performing recognised consultants, and also help grow our talented team.

•    Developing and implementing strategic plans to help drive discipline, programme, and project best practice for TMS and our clients.

Project activities include:

•    Responsible for delivering the reliable exchange of design information from MM or client hosted CDE, GIS and associated platforms are articulated and subsequently implemented.
•    Own and implement MM specific information management project onboarding.
•    Support integration and co-ordination of information within the project information models.
•    Set the information management direction of projects in accordance with Information Execution Plans (IEP), ensuring that direction is articulate to project personnel.
•    Identify and/or establish information management tooling / system training needs. 
•    Identify, challenge, and recommend BIM and information management approaches to projects, ensuring they are formally agreed, delivered, and monitored. 
•    Establish and work with the network of lead designers, modellers and interface managers ensure adherence to the project’s information management requirements. 
•    Support the project management team by reviewing and making recommendations to proposed information exchange processes and practices.
•    Support the project management team by surfacing pertinent delivery metrics and data via the use of dashboarding technologies, ensure the data required to drive these technologies is available.
•    Work with the relevant individuals and vendors to establish improved ways of working and provide guidance/ advice/ training for this and related systems as required.
•    Work with project controls and others to establish improved information management ways of working.
•    Research, develop and explore emerging processes and means to bring added value to the project and agree this formally. 
•    Ensure implementation of a Data Shortcuts Strategy among modelling personnel is created and implemented.

Candidate Spec:

•    Leadership: A proven leader of information management teams, with experience of infrastructure project delivery processes, and information management in design and build programmes and projects.

•    Discipline best practice: Skilled at setting and driving information management good practice across teams, whilst supporting the adoption of new ways of working.  Good knowledge of information management standards, tools, and processes best practice.

•    Programme best practice: Good technical knowledge and expertise in designing and embedding information management best practice into major infrastructure programmes and projects in line with BS1192 / ISO 19650.

•    Commercial acumen: Strong commercial awareness, with knowledge of the contractual implications of information requirements in project change control processes. 

•    Communication & collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and experience of multi stakeholder engagement.

•    Consultative, analytical approach: Experience in needs-based solution design for internal and external clients, using strong business analysis and problem-solving skills.

•    Change agent: Familiar with digital transformation and change management approaches.

•    Data and information knowledge: Understanding of data and information governance and management.  Experience of managing CAD, design, geospatial, contractual data and information associated to infrastructure design and build projects. 

Desirable 

•    Sector: Experience of working in the transportation sector.

•    Certification: Information Management certification (BSI or BRE).

•    Systems & tools: Experience with systems and toolsets such as Asite, ProjectWise, Autodesk and MIDP management tools.

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  

We are happy to talk openly about 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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.