Associate Director / Director - Smart Buildings & Places
Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join our Digital Advisory team in this leadership role and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.
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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 consultants who want to collaborate with other 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 an Associate Director or Director to lead, grow and develop our Smart Places/Smart Buildings propositions.
Key Duties
* Driving business development of smart places / smart buildings projects from opportunity identification through to proposal conversion.
* Achieving agreed revenue targets (min £750k) 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 affiliated to our technical capabilities including building system designers, integration specialists and solution architects, by prioritizing their career growth and fostering a conducive work environment.
* As a key member of the UK Digital Advisory senior leadership team, you will contribute to the overall success of the practice, across strategy, service, propositions, and people.
* Driving collaboration with Advisory and other associated BH teams (e.g. sustainability and energy transition, urban strategies, crowd intelligence etc) in other regions.
* Extensive experience leading consulting projects in the Smart Places and/or Smart Buildings space.
* Recognised by clients and the market as an expert within Smart Places and/or Smart Buildings 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.
* Significant experience in developing and scaling value propositions related to this space with an eye for innovation.
* Proven track record of creating and winning business in the Smart Places and/or Smart Buildings space.
What we offer:
* Attractive benefits package including, car allowance, pension (10% EC), private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
* Annual Performance incentive scheme - up to 8% (Associate Director) or 10% (Director) of salary.
* For Directors, eligibility to participate in our Director Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) scheme.
* Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
* Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
* 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.
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 individuals 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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