Are you a strategic leader with a passion for driving business growth and collaboration? Buro Happold is seeking a Head of UK Markets to lead our Business Development, Bids, Marketing, and Social Value functions.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional
Reporting directly to the UK Markets Leader and sitting on the UK Leadership Board, this pivotal role ensures seamless integration between our market-facing teams and sector leaders to win impactful work across the UK and beyond.
Your next role
- Lead and manage the heads of Business Development, Bids, and Marketing, ensuring effective team leadership and budget oversight.
- Develop and align strategies across Business Development, Bids, and Marketing with Market, Sector, and Key Relationship Management (KRM) goals.
- Ensure teams have the right capabilities, development opportunities, and support to thrive.
- Drive collaboration and communication between work-winning teams and business development functions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve challenges in business development performance and alignment.
- Manage the Social Value lead and ensure strong internal direction in this area.
- Support international market activities with adequate Bid and Marketing resources.
Your skills and experience
- A high-performing, collaborative Business Development, Bid, and Marketing team.
- Experience providing clear strategic direction and execution aligned with market and sector goals.
- Proven ability managing client relationships and a healthy pipeline of opportunities with high conversion and win rates.
- A well-structured team with clear roles and career development pathways.
- Effective prioritisation of resources around key clients, bids, and growth areas.
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including 10% Car Allowance, life assurance and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
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. #LI-SH1 #LI-Hybrid