Associate Director (Project Digital Delivery)

This Position is open for our Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Edinburgh, Epsom, Glasgow, Oxford, Peterborough, Swansea, and Warrington Offices.

Do you have the drive, skills, and career potential to work with us as an influential leader in digital delivery? If so, AtkinsRéalis has an exciting new opportunity for you to shape the direction of our work developing and implementing digital solutions alongside the wider delivery of multi-disciplinary work across our Environment practice. Collaborating with technical teams across AtkinsRéalis, you will work to drive digital development and adoption to solve some of our client's biggest challenges.  You will be pivotal in enabling technical best practice, knowledge sharing and innovation. It is a role that brings together technical expertise with the good skills required to develop strong relationships externally and internally.

If you are looking to join an established team focused on the delivery of interesting projects that help create a better future, framed by a strong culture of wellbeing, innovation, and inclusivity, this is the place for you. You will have the opportunity to not only develop your technical and project management experience, but to play an active role in shaping the future direction of the infrastructure markets, and in particular the complex challenges facing the water sector in AMP8.

Taking the best of our products, tools, and ideas you will help turn them into winning propositions and be pivotal in then delivering them as part of successful projects for our clients. You'll have a strong strategic mindset, with the ability to align client ambitions with digital solutions, driving innovation and efficiency, to deliver environmental improvement. You will match your strong relationships in the environmental sector to the strength and depth of technical expertise in AtkinsRéalis, helping to deliver complex, multi-disciplinary environmental work. The dynamic and influential relationship between our environmental specialists and our engineering design and planning colleagues provide exceptional opportunities for you to continue learning and develop your career. Read more about how you can thrive with us: Equality, diversity & inclusion in the UK & Europe (atkinsrealis.com) 

You should have experience of digital product and tool development, from inception through adoption and implementation, through to support and maintenance, with demonstrable benefit for clients. As a major engineering, environmental and design consultancy, AtkinsRéalis offers opportunities for talented consultants to work on a wide variety of high-profile projects.

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies, with over 50,000 employees worldwide. At AtkinsRéalis, we offer more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to make a difference and shape the world to benefit future generations and the natural environment.

As part of this commitment, we understand the need for a diverse and flexible workforce, where a work-life balance is important. So, by default AtkinsRéalis offers flexible working, where there is no fixed 9 ‘till 5, no need for a 5-day week, no requirement for a full-time contract, and no requirement to spend all your working time in the office. Our IT systems support homeworking, so where you have parental or carer duties; or you simply need to be elsewhere for a parcel, servicing your car, or waiting in for a tradesperson; AtkinsRéalis will work for you. Similarly, AtkinsRéalis’ corporate social responsibility provides the opportunity to give something back to the community, and we run professional networks supporting groups such as local schools, charities, parents, those coming out of the armed-forces and women in engineering.

We can be flexible around UK office location for this vacancy.

Key objectives of the role:

• Working directly with clients, as well as internally with market leaders and client directors, to understand client problems and identify and deliver technically feasible and commercially viable solutions.
• Leading the successful delivery of tasks and projects from inception to handover, meeting quality, time, and budget requirements.
  Support major bids pushing our digital propositions to create compelling offers.
• Lead the delivery of new user-friendly tools and products on projects for our clients.
• Work with subject matter experts and technical leads at tender stage for key frameworks and major projects, to identify digital delivery approaches that provide competitive advantage to our proposals.
• Raising the profile of digital innovation in AtkinsRéalis Environment.
  Generating successful proposals that meet client needs and lead to technically and commercially successful work.

Key responsibilities of the role:

Joining a well-established and successful team, you will collaborate with existing digital, technical and market leads to win work, deliver work, create new tools and solutions, and maintain personal billability. You will also:

• Engage with, and work within the digital strategy of AtkinsRéalis, assisting colleagues in the Environment practice navigate its principles and share knowledge and best practice.
• Direct and lead digital development and adoption on a major projects, co-ordinating inputs from colleagues.

What you’ll bring:

Passionate about creating a better future, you will have:

• An established knowledge of environmental disciplines and digital solutions, bringing unique expertise and network or clients and project partners.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues, clients, and regulators.
• Robust financial and programme management delivery skills.
• A degree and preferably a higher degree in sustainability or a relevant technical discipline (e.g., geography, environmental science, climate science, environmental economics, or engineering) or equivalent.
• A track record of leading technical business development and growth; developing and maintaining strong networks.

We’re looking for people who are:

Highly self-motivated, possessing strong enthusiasm and commitment to delivering sustainable outcomes.
Inspirational, a role model for staff and an ambassador for AtkinsRéalis.
Able to demonstrate strong business acumen with ability to identify and deliver value creating opportunities.
Strongly collaborative and able to bring out the best in others.
Client centric – with a deep understanding client needs now, and the likely market direction, their opportunities, and challenges with a track record of delivery.