Designs and engineers innovative, sustainable infrastructure and buildings worldwide.
This is a Region level leadership role focussed on leading UK water utility market-facing activities, driving collaboration, and supporting growth, aligning the firm reputation, strategic priorities, and resource planning with client needs and external market conditions. You will be part of a small Senior Leadership Team reporting directly to the Regional Water Business Lead, Catherine Wenger.
Challenge constructively both internally and externally in a manner which helps bring clarity and introduce novel and innovative approaches to resolve issues.
You will drive client and partner relationship activities, ensure accurate market understanding, represent the firm externally, and contribute to global business success through collaboration and best practice sharing. You will promote a client-centric culture, set strategic priorities, advise on investment, and shape marketing activities. Staying ahead of market trends will be vital, as well as advocating on key issues, leading communications and work winning initiatives.
Be inquisitive and motivated to continuously learn and question the status quo both in a technical and broader social context. Canvas opinions, source new ideas and proactively bring those into discussions.
You will be a motivated, enthusiastic, curious, and competent individual with a strong track record of delivery through building excellent client and partner relationships, with the ability to maximise opportunities and routes to market and engage and motivate across a large organisation.
Ability to build followership and understanding to help enthuse and empower members.
Education to degree level; chartership at a relevant professional body.
Ability to ‘future-gaze’ and provide credible advice grounded in strong understanding of the sector.
Experience of working successfully to maximise opportunities within a framework.
Strong network of senior c-suite contacts across the UK utility market– both with partner and client organisations - to be able to convene and influence for optimal understanding, insight, visibility, positioning and delivery.
Enthusiasm to consider new ways of working and champion digital and data-enabled insights recognising that over the lifespan of the frameworks working patterns and requirements will change dramatically.
We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
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Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.