Job Description

Candidate Specification

Duties/Responsibilities:
People:

• Build and develop multi-disciplinary, project & technical team(s), including assessing competency gaps and undertaking recruitment and resource management
• Support the creation of a working environment where everyone is respected and heard, and treated equally
• Provide clear, consistent, and visible leadership to your design / project teams
• Undertake line management and staff welfare, including supporting staff training and development, to help everyone reach their potential
• Positively engage with our clients, as well as the wider health sector, to develop relationships and influence.

Excellence:

• Contribute to achieving excellence in our service and delivery through positive client management
• Engage, support, and contribute to the wider MM design / technical advisory community and business
• Engage with and develop relationships with the wider Mott MacDonald Group to help enhance our performance
• Support the development of initiatives around innovation, excellence and digital
• Support the enhancement of our reputation and the development of the differentiators to our competitors.

Delivery:

• Manage multi-disciplinary design & technical advisory teams on major projects and / or portfolio of projects
• Manage bids and client capture plans to help drive growth in the sector
• The role will expect agility to deliver multiple projects, potentially at different development stages, in a consultancy portfolio at the same time
• Contribute to the development of project scope and target costs, including understanding risks and opportunities
• Guide the delivery of multi-disciplinary design / project management processes including clear programmes that teams can be managed and monitored against
• Have strong technical skills and be able to manage project and design risk and impacts, as well as being able to identify and allocate resources appropriately to address competency and complexity
• Represent MM in management, project, and technical meetings with the client / or series of clients and support our technical specialists
• Form collaborative relationships with the MM design, technical specialists and project / commercial managers and balance the competing tensions of time, cost, and quality, to successfully deliver positive outcomes
• Be proficient in challenging and improving processes and performance and building a culture that inspires your team/s to innovate, and to arrive at value driven and efficient designs / solutions
• Develop strong project control behaviours and processes within your team/s, to achieve time, cost and quality requirements for the design and overall project
• Be an enabler for using Mott MacDonald\'s Global Design Services and digital services.

What we expect to see from you:

• Academically qualified design / design & project management background
• Experience of design / project managing major complex healthcare projects
• An experienced manager of people and teams, developing others, and managing staff welfare
• Demonstrable experience of developing and influencing collaborative team culture and behaviours, as well as working effectively within a multidiscipline and diverse team
• Strong commercial performance and an understanding of procurement, the design process and healthcare brief development
• Proven record in delivering design projects to programme, budget, and quality requirements, and managing competing tensions within early briefing and procurement / delivery environment, for the benefit of developing better outcomes
• Proactive approach and growth mindset, with an ability to adapt and manage your team/s within changing environments, to achieve both creativity and proficiency
• Proven ability to manage designer\'s responsibilities under CDM.

If you meet 80% or more of what we\'re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn\'t know we need.



Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it\'s employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Design Manager / Principal Technical Advisor to join our growing Health Sector team for UK & Europe. You will report on day-to-day basis to the national health sector design and TA lead, as well as support our regional health sector lead for Scotland & Ireland. You will support and drive growth within the region, whilst supporting our national strategy and ambition.

Our work requires agile individuals with extensive experience of managing multi-disciplinary programme, project / design / advisory teams from RIBA stage 0 to RIBA Stage 3 and beyond into detail design, shaping brief development, stakeholder management, and navigation of the business case production and approvals process.

You will be expected to oversee our regional health work from a design and technical assurance perspective working closely with the regional health sector lead and wider core health team. You will help support the management of local and national pipeline opportunities - in shaping growth capture, convince, win, and delivery through work with individual NHS Trusts and Boards. You will work collaboratively with the health sector team in support of the sector ambition and growth strategies in becoming a preeminent multi-disciplinary consultancy in the sector.

You will have demonstrable knowledge and experience of the design process and of managing complex programmes of work, being able to bring together our broader MM technical team as well as a broad supply chain into a coordinated design and project delivery or technical assurance team service.

You will be capable of applying yourself to manage major commissions or multiple projects for our clients, managing pipeline opportunities working with and supporting our health coordinators, and managing projects for design and multi-disciplinary technical advisory commissions through bid and delivery.

Opportunities:

• Create and manage multi-disciplinary team commissions on single or multiple projects, covering technical advisory, assurance, project management, and design delivery services
• Support the growth of the health sector in the UK & Europe one of our key focus areas for the region
• Become a senior member of our exciting health sector team, within a strong and growing group of multi-disciplinary resources, actively being a key member to manage resource, invest in our knowledge and lessons learned, and shape consistency of delivery through development of best practise processes
• Be part of a diverse and secured programme of projects that include national and individual NHS Trust/Board roles, as well support growth with continued engagement of new clients - helping shape relationships and capture future opportunities
• A unique opportunity to work within a team of specialists that are foremost in the sector / industry in driving service transformation, embracing technology and digital to support new efficient ways of working, embracing modern methods of construction, delivering green plans, and supporting carbon strategies to achieve Net Zero, whilst adding value to maximise improved social outcomes
• Develop your skills and experience of working within an exciting team, driven by a company with strong values, focused on company and resource ownership
• Grow your professional internal and external networks, including engagement with our global Mott MacDonald practices and learning from our subject matter experts
• Develop and embrace the benefits of hybrid and agile working.

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Contract Type

Permanent

Discipline

Advisory, Health

Job Profile

About the business unit
The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald\'s regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

How to apply
To apply for this role, please complete our 15-minute application via our website. Our talent acquisition coordinators aim to provide feedback within 5 working days with the outcome of your application. More information about our application process can be found . If you have any questions regarding your application or the role, please reach out to the dedicated recruiter listed who will be more than happy to help.

Mott MacDonald is accredited - which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force!

Benefits we offer:

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities - because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working - because life isn\'t 9-5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies - for parents and care givers
• Annual company performance bonus scheme - Subject to company performance
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans .
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our

Recruiter Contact

Nick Morton

Website Region

Europe and Central Asia

Website Sector

Buildings, Cities

Sector

Built environment

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Work pattern

Full time

Other Information

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 have the opportunity to contribute.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments 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 assist.

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 embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

More about Mott MacDonald
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.
Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence

Mott MacDonald