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Sector: Construction and Building Services
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Role: Associate
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.
Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.
Our values shape the way we consult:
* Safety first - Going home safe and well
* Client focus - Deliver on our promise
* Integrity - Always do the right thing
* Create opportunity - For our people to excel
You'll be responsible for:
* Acting as a leader for the BU. Bringing new ideas, challenging and driving forward the service offer, including developing annual business unit plans.
* Accountability for service excellence and construct engine satisfaction, delivering purpose-led and measurable outcomes on projects.
* Bid support. Complete in a timely manner, ensuring the appropriate sustainability message is delivered in an appropriate way to exceed the clients' expectations but ensuring it is deliverable.
* Ensuring projects contribute to the 2030 Mace business plan KPIs and targets.
* Awareness of client and market needs to evolve and maintain necessary competencies.
* Data quality (i.e. QA the data sets) and identify insights that you can act upon. Drive improvements and better outcomes (not just reporting).
* Completing competitor analysis in the sector to continually improve.
* Innovation - measure and track, deliver meaningful and measurable outcomes.
* Ensuring all targets (legal, client, and Mace) are being delivered.
* Doing the basics right - legal compliance, legislation, Mace Way, Engage.
* Regular engagement with your client and consultants (share knowledge, check in, provide informative insights, project updates and case studies).
* Developing others and delegate tasks to the wider team, ensuring efficient allocation of resources.
* Resource projects effectively with forward planning.
* Ensuring suitable time allocation is secured for each project, in line with the agreed sustainability deliverables.
* Line management responsibilities and task management for those individuals who are managed by others.
At Mace, our culture is defined by our behaviours and how we act.
Be Curious:
* Maintain awareness of strategic client pipelines and drivers to help ensure bidding is proactive and efficient.
* Understand client drivers and what good looks like in the sector, collaborating with other responsible business sector leads and service offer leads to bring offers to new and existing clients.
* Enhance and bring new service offers to market to stay competitive.
* Drive innovation, sharing insights and solutions from across the industry, and implement innovative solutions to pursue a better way, resulting in meaningful and measurable impacts.
* Manage quality control of relevant data sets, identifying insights and solutions that improve project performance.
Be a Collaborator:
* Work collaboratively to manage the market and/or sector interfaces effectively and in the best interests of Mace.
* Work closely with your business unit SLT and other leadership forums to provide subject matter leadership and strategic planning.
* Strong leadership, integrity and motivational skills are essential.
* Share knowledge and insights from the sector, including project case studies and thought leadership.
* Form and maintain strong, senior working relationships at the highest levels in client organisations as well as across Mace.
* Contribute and support the wider industry regarding sustainability insights and knowledge.
Be a Contributor:
* Support and develop an integrated service offer into the business unit and Mace construct.
* Lead and manage a high performing team and champion career development.
Be a Champion:
* Strong and engaging communicator, articulate and open, and comfortable when representing the company.
* Champion the business unit's contribution to the delivery of the Mace 2026 business strategy priorities.
* Quality control, know your project's sustainability numbers, and champion them across the team's and business unit.
Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
Company
If you can bring a different perspective to help us shape the cities of tomorrow, take a look at the opportunities we have to join us.
At Mace we empower our people to be collaborative, curious and embrace their entrepreneurial spirits.
We want our employees to thrive and achieve their highest potential.
Reward and recognition
We invest in our people and provide a strong benefits package, which in the UK includes:
* 22 days of holiday, plus two ‘Mace Days’
* Contributory pension scheme
* Life assurance
* Highly competitive maternity and paternity package
* Reimbursement of professional subscriptions and membership fees
* Season ticket loan
* Annual health screening
* Private medical insurance
* Sponsorship of education schemes (on approval)
* Continuous on-the-job training and development
* Cycle to work scheme
We know that many parents can face challenges when balancing the demands of work and their home lives. At Mace, we fully support our people when they choose to balance their career with family life.
Our performance management and appraisal approach is based on ability and talent.
We appreciate the differences that everyone brings to work and we recognise the importance of people being free to be themselves.
We are proud partners of Stonewall’s global diversity champions programme.
Support for disabled employees is provided by:
* Our recruitment and HR Teams have undertaken disability awareness training.
* Enabled at Mace – employee network to support its members.
* Disability Confident – creating an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants.
* Clear Assured – an externally verified accreditation around equality, diversity and inclusion practice.
* Recite Me – an assistive technology tool that provides access support to all employees.
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