Ukimea Group Leader North

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Arup Full time

Within Arup’s UK business we are seeking to appoint a Group Leader in our North geography region specifically aligned to two of our client facing portfolios - Cities, Planning & Design and Advisory Services.

Arup’s North geography covers our offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Newcastle, and Stockton-on-Tees.

**Responsibilities and Deliverables**:
The Group Leader is an inspirational and influential Arup leader playing a critical role in bringing together teams of people, and projects, some of which could be multidisciplinary, to deliver business performance and excellence for our clients.

Driven by the Arup Global strategy, Region Plan and sustainability priorities, they collaborate effectively with Region Geography and Region Portfolio Leaders to set the operating plan for the Group, seeing the bigger picture and carefully balancing their own operating plan against wider business needs.

Acting in the best interests of Arup, they work within and across Geographies and Regions, to build capability and capacity and ensure the effective allocation of expertise and resource to deliver the best of Arup to clients.

They foster a culture of trust and openness where wellbeing and inclusion are prioritised to enable teams to perform at their best. They are the focal point of the Group and will create followership and nurture and develop talent.

Working closely with Skills Leaders and the Arup University they strive for technical excellence and inspire teams to experiment, innovate and learn to deliver the best outcomes for clients.

**What success looks like**:
Delivery against the Annual Business Plan for the Group, including influencing the pipeline and optimising the sustainable outcomes created through projects and clients.

P&L measures e.g. income, profit, invoicing, cash.

Achieve breadth of client income - by business and service.

Strength of capability and capacity within the Group to deliver technically excellent projects.

Employee feedback through surveys/inclusivity measures.

Consistent delivery of all core people processes - appraisals, investment in learning, promotion, succession and reward.

Delivery of accountabilities as set out in the Health & Safety management system.

Growing the headcount within the overall Group.

**Operationalise Arup’s vision and strategy**:
Contribute to the delivery of the Annual Business Plan through Group performance against their committed plan/projects in service of the Global Strategy and Region Plan.

Deliver operational effectiveness as measured by billability, resource utilisation and project/programme delivery.

Support the Portfolio Leaders to evolve and grow the market and service offering in the Group to deliver higher value services to Clients.

**Delivering excellence for Arup’s clients**:
Connect and integrate skills, people and projects to deliver excellence, and to offer the full breadth and depth of Arup to clients.

Connect Arup to the local communities and build sustainable client relationships that add value to the Firm.

Strengthen and establish strategic client relationships within the Geography/Market/Service and cities, targeting and securing value adding projects, working within the Firm’s bidding guidelines.

**Delivering excellence for Arup’s people**:
Build an empowering and collaborate environment that inspires the teams they lead to innovate and to realise their ambitions and potential.

Proactively build diverse and inclusive teams that represent the best of Arup and our communities.

Optimise performance, deliver excellence and champion well-being practices across their Group through the effective allocation of work.

Drive the performance of the Group, ensuring that members of their Group are appraised regularly and given appropriate feedback, training, development and career opportunity.

Build capability and manage the talent pipeline through succession planning, resourcing, development, skills building and effective talent management.

Build capacity to meet the need of clients within their Group through effective workforce.

Planning and recruitment to meet both current and future capability requirements.

They will be financially literate and able to effectively manage risk, including reputational and corporate.

Have a strong personal commitment to sustainable development.

Diversity of skills and good understanding of different markets in the two portfolios of Cities, Planning & Design and Advisory Services is more important than professional qualifications

They will demonstrate an entrepreneurial approach and have an established track record of driving change while dealing with push-back and ambiguity.

High EQ to both operate in the context of Arup’s overall culture and bring challenge and innovation when appropriate.

Ability to influence and both create and maintain relationships with key industry contacts (including decision makers which would include investors, government, developers, utilities and


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