Consultancy Lead: Pavement Assets

**About the role**
We have an exciting opportunity to lead our Pavement Assets consultancy team. We are looking for a dynamic leader to help shape and drive the team to achieve TRL’s business objectives in three key areas:

- Grow TRL’s consultancy business in Pavement Assets research to contribute to the bottom line
- Grow new capability in your team to exploit market opportunities, and maintain existing capabilities where there is a market need
- Develop the sales and technical solutioning competency of your team to ensure TRL continues to develop innovative solutions that meet clients’ needs and anticipate the market to take transportation into the future

You will foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in your team, and inspire and motivate your team to develop TRL’s Pavement Assets capabilities focused on the techniques and best practice for the maintenance of pavements assets. Providing expert consultancy to help clients make evidence-based decisions to increase the lifetime of their assets.
Future vision: Understanding the future market for pavement assets and growing new cutting-edge areas of pavement science
Day to day tasks will include line managing 8-12 people, including resource management, talent management and performance management. You will right-size TRL's sellable capabilities in your team by identifying on-the-job training / external training / recruitment needs; and developing and actioning a realistic, financially astute plan to achieve these. You will lead bid technical solutioning and projects that bring together expertise from a range of colleagues within your team (and more widely when appropriate), role modelling positive behaviours and upskilling your team to develop our capabilities in a market-orientated way.
We have a one team culture, and in your role you are strongly supported by TRL’s Academy, who define our strategic direction; and our sales team, who help solve our customers’ problems. We also work closely with TRL’s Smart Mobility Living Lab, real-world urban test bed in London.
You will be a driven all-rounder who is motivated by having a diverse range of activities in their day-to-day role, including project delivery, bidding and team & people management, who is able to problem solve quickly and effectively, and who is able to prioritise their time in line with business needs. Most of all, this role will suit someone who has vision and ideas, and the dynamism to action them with your team.
**Key duties / Responsibilities**
- Create and nurture a culture of trust and accountability within your team, ensuring that all individuals understand how their roles contribute to delivering to the company Mission and Vision
- Manage and develop the capability and the capacity of the team for both current and future market / organisational needs.
- Contribute to sales and technical content for tenders. Take responsibility for the bids led by your team and ensure they are appropriately resourced with the right team for a winning, efficient, strategic and technically strong approach.
- Effectively manage staff performance and talent in your team ensuring all staff have meaningful objectives against TRL’s values and Strategic Plan. Measure and manage individual objectives so they are met, and manage talent and performance appropriately.
- Effectively communicate to your team and to senior management
- Ensure, through adequate controls and review procedures that technical delivery is on time, within budget constraints and the technical quality is at a sustainably high level without over-delivering beyond the project scope.
- Embody the TRL values and be an ambassador for the company.

**About you**
Essential
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, and to define value-adding solutions to clients problems
- Experience of managing multidisciplinary consultancy teams to a high level of utilisation
- A proven track record managing people to deliver quality outcomes to company behaviours, engendering collaboration and co-operation
- Excellent communication skills, including internal and external stakeholder management
- Ability to prepare clear, concise, high quality technical / non-technical reports and proposals
- Technical area of competence relevant to Pavement Assets.

**Qualifications**
- Educated to degree level or hold an equivalent level of experience.
- Previous formal management training and/or chartered status would be desirable.

**About us**
**TRL **is a global centre for innovation in transport and mobility. We provide world-leading research, technology and software solutions for surface transport modes and related markets engaged in intelligent, new mobility innovations.

Our core areas of expertise include: infrastructure asset management & asset technologies; intelligent transport systems & traffic operations; sustainability & healthy mobility; vehicle safety engineering & technology research; major incident investigations; human