Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join us as a Director in our Digital Advisory team and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Buro Happold’s Digital Advisory team focuses on delivering technology and information transformation to clients to enhance their financial, environmental, and social performance (the triple-bottom-line, across people, planet and places).
Our projects vary considerably; from defining the smart city technologies that will transform the resident, worker, or visitor experience of a bleeding edge city in the middle east, to developing a sophisticated data-driven 3D twin of a university campus to determine the most effective route to net zero carbon, to outlining how technology can add significant revenue streams across football clubs in the UK, to defining the team, processes and policies required for our clients to manage data quickly and securely... However, all our projects have engineering or ‘real-world’ asset expertise at their core and it is that, with our relentless focus on the triple-bottom-line, that makes us unique.
The team works across a range of consulting areas covering digital strategy and transformation, digital systems and solutions and data and analytics. We are looking for colleagues who want to collaborate with our other global offices, our experts in design, and technologists internally and externally to make a real-world difference.
Our market leading capability has resulted in the UK Digital Advisory team more than doubling in size over the last year with a strong growth plan and pipeline to double in size again this year. To support this growth, we are looking for a senior leader to add further, market-facing technical expertise, work-winning and leadership capacity to the team.
Key Duties:
- Drive market awareness, sales pipeline, and business development activities for Digital Advisory propositions and capabilities.
- Achieving agreed revenue targets (min £1m rev) aligned with market, sector, and client priorities.
- Take a lead role in project delivery for our most complex engagements, ensuring successful outcomes, client satisfaction and an ongoing client relationship.
- Inspire, motivate, and support the professional development and well-being of team members by prioritizing their growth and fostering an inclusive work environment.
- As a key member of the UK Digital Advisory & Advisory senior leadership team, you will contribute to the overall success of the practice, across strategy, service, propositions, and people.
- Own the “Technical” competence and capability development for the team embedding technical skills within our team related to digital delivery methodologies, e.g. TOGAF, ITIL, Cloud etc.
- Contribute to the leadership of the UK Digital Advisory practice by assisting in setting objectives, managing performance, and ensuring the team possesses the necessary insights, knowledge, skills, and resources to achieve business plan objectives and professional development goals.
Your skills & experience
- Extensive experience in a leadership role within digital, ideally with application in the ‘real world’ assets or asset-intensive organisations
- Significant experience in management consulting and digital delivery methodologies e.g. TOGAF, GDS, ITIL, Agile, DevOPs, Cloud, etc.
- Recognised by clients and the market as an expert within your chosen areas of speciality within Digital Advisory and have a strong recent track record of trusted advisor / client relationships.
- Outstanding direction and people management skills, ability to collaborate across geographies and experience in developing and managing client-facing consulting delivery approaches.
- Experience managing business relationships at Senior and Executive levels within client organisations and have demonstrated ability to directly influence client behaviours and conclusions and deals effectively with high risk, high value executive client situations.
- Strong understanding and experience in consultative selling including shaping opportunities, pursuit management, proposition development and account management.
- Proven track record of creating and winning business.
Desirable sector knowledge in ‘real world’ assets or asset intensive organisations would be advantageous. For example:
- Real estate – owners, investors and occupiers
- Sports and entertainment
- Higher Education
- Public Sector
- Energy utilities
- Transport or mobility
At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.
Apply today and be a part of our legacy.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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