Associate Director

Job Description

Overview

Become a vital member of our Complex Projects team, proudly taking on some of the world's most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us, and you'll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. It's about recognizing everyone's contributions equally while delivering excellence together.
Flexible and remote working are central to our culture, so talk to us about what's important to you, from reduced weeks to buying more leave, and how we can make reasonable adjustments for you or support your ambitions outside of work.

As an Associate Director, you'll play a pivotal role in the region. Bring your collaborative, motivated, detail-oriented approach to our wide variety of complex projects across the region. Your technical competence, lateral thinking, first-class communication skills, and robust commercial awareness will be crucial in delivering better for our clients and communities, and will enable you to thrive in our vibrant, supportive team.

Your role

• Identifying regional sector growth markets & alignment with national strategy.
• Provide regular regional Market Insights to inform sector implementation.
• Drafting & delivering regional sector plans & outcomes - working with internal service and sector leads to identify strategic targets, grow our market share in the sector by maximising opportunities with existing clients, and secure work with new clients.
• Agreeing and delivering on the financial targets for the sector and business - including revenue, profit, work winning, and headcount growth.
• Responsible for championing AtkinsRéalis brand and driving external profile for regional sector, including delivering thought leadership.
• Responsible for acting upon outcomes of client account feedback in sector.
• Active participation in sector bids and where appropriate leading bids for regional sector bids.
• Be the face for AtkinsRéalis in the energy sector, attending and ideally speaking at industry events.
• Leading on business development activities and supporting L&D to upskill our rising stars.
• Collaborate with all other Sector and Business Leaders to share market intelligence and maximise opportunities across our complete client base and service offering.
• Set and maintain excellent service delivery standards and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Sharing best practice across all accounts, projects, and programmes in the sector to maximise the benefit to our clients.
• Ensure we have the highest quality marketing collateral to support client engagement activities in the sector.
• Engage with all other offices, sectors and the wider AtkinsRéalis business to provide innovative solutions to maximise our competitive advantage.
• Utilising your existing network in the sector to head up a number of strategic accounts to help drive growth and increase market share.

About you

• Successful track record of leading major pursuits for national clients on capital programmes and frameworks.
• Proven experience in a senior level role running a large team of multi-discipline consultants.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire people.
• Detailed knowledge of our rivals, understand our market differentiators and help to shape them going forward.
• Providing a strategic insight and ability to focus our business to take full advantage of the energy market.
• Chartered with the APM, or similar qualification.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Rewards and benefits - Careers at AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis , a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.