Managing Consultant - Digital

Essential:

• A track record of leading and delivering complex digital, data, analytics or automation assignments in project, programme, PMO or consulting environments
• Ability to provide high-level specialist advice, make sound delivery decisions and remain accountable for high-quality outcomes
• Experience leading workstreams or supervising others, including delegation, quality review, coaching and development support
• Strong stakeholder and consulting skills, including working with senior clients and translating ambiguous needs into agreed delivery approaches
• Broad practical knowledge across digital reporting, data modelling, information management, workflow automation and solution assurance, with depth in at least one area
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, service development or business growth and building networks across teams, clients or sectors

Desirable:

• Experience in project controls, infrastructure, engineering consultancy, public-sector programmes or another regulated delivery environment
• Practical experience with Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Python, Power Automate, Microsoft Fabric, Azure services, APIs, Git or comparable technologies
• Knowledge of enterprise or project controls platforms such as Primavera P6, Deltek Cobra, SAP, SharePoint or comparable systems
• Experience establishing reusable standards, data products, common data environments, technical assurance or governance frameworks
• A relevant chartered or equivalent professional accreditation, or willingness to work towards one where appropriate to the final role profile

• 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.
• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
• 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.
• 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.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• 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 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.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.
• 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.

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.

You will lead and deliver complex digital and data-enabled assignments across project, programme and PMO environments. Working with project teams and senior stakeholders, you will combine high-level specialist advice with practical delivery to improve information, reporting, automation, data quality and decision support.

You will lead workstreams from discovery through implementation, assurance, adoption and handover. At Grade E, the role also includes supervising and coaching colleagues, reviewing delivery quality, building trusted client relationships and contributing to the development of repeatable Digital PMO services and new opportunities.

What you will help acheive:

• High-quality digital and data deliverables that address clear client and business needs
• Trusted information and stronger decisions through robust data, transparent assumptions and proportionate controls
• Well-governed solutions that are usable, maintainable and adopted by delivery teams
• Improved team capability through coaching, quality review, reusable assets and knowledge sharing
• Growth of a coherent Digital PMO offering through client engagement, bids, case studies and repeatable service components

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead complex digital and data workstreams, managing scope, priorities, risks, decisions, dependencies and delivery outcomes
• Provide high-level specialist advice on digital delivery, analytics, reporting, information management, automation and data quality in PMO and project controls settings
• Engage senior client and internal stakeholders to define outcomes, challenge assumptions, prioritise requirements and agree proportionate delivery approaches
• Oversee the design and delivery of dashboards, data models, integration pipelines, workflow automation, collaboration environments and management information products
• Establish proportionate governance, architecture, data lineage, security, testing, quality assurance and documentation requirements
• Manage and supervise colleagues, delegate effectively, review outputs and coach junior and mid-career practitioners
• Contribute to bids, proposals, planning, estimating, mobilisation and the development of new or repeatable Digital PMO services
• Build and maintain professional networks across business units, disciplines, clients and relevant external communities
• Identify opportunities for responsible innovation that improve client outcomes, delivery efficiency and service quality

Location/s: Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Bristol; UK
Recruiter contact: Danielle Judd

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 offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.