Senior Consultant

**Senior Consultant - Rail Operations**

SNC-Lavalin is one of the top three largest Engineering organisations in the world, with over 50,000 employees and a turnover of £5bn. The Rail Consulting Practice is part of the SNC-Lavalin family and sits within the Atkins UK Transportation business. In Rail Consulting we work across the rail life-cycle helping our clients in both the UK and overseas to navigate through a rapidly changing world.

The Rail Consulting Practice is made up of three distinct Practices and thirteen Sub-Practices, all of which are supported by a Win Work team. The Rail Operations and Asset Management (ROAM) Practice within Rail Consulting is a highly successful and respected team with an established portfolio of services. The Rail Operations Sub-Practice has a great market position and reputation with our clients. The Sub-Practice has team members based in various offices throughout the UK.

We offer great scope for developing your career and achieving your goals within Rail Consulting. Working within our team you’ll be able to see the impact you make and gain experience on a wide range of projects. We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be and when you join us, you'll be a part of a genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally.

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**The Role**

As a Senior Consultant working within the Rail Operations Sub-Practice, you will report into the Practice Manager - Rail Operations.

**Core Role Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Collaborate and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and support the process of driving sub-practice improvement.
- Be a source of expertise for both colleagues and clients, acting as a role model to all staff, and contribute to high levels of engagement and performance.
- Support and encourage personal development of staff and help to ensure sub-practice skills and capacity meet the needs of the market.
- Understand external market dynamics, drivers, and associated opportunities to support the identification and securing of a pipeline of work for the sub-practice.
- Contribute to bidding activities and provide technical and commercial input where needed.
- Foster great client relationships and support the client feedback process to ensure client-facing activities are constantly improved.
- Support the development of a culture where people provide high quality work through the end-to-end delivery process, ensuring that client expectations are exceeded wherever possible, and that processes are optimised and improved over time.
- Lead the governance of specific projects of low to medium complexity to ensure risk is mitigated through compliance to required corporate and client requirements.
- Work collaboratively to support the creation of financial and operational performance budgets and forecasts which balance stakeholder needs and expectations with the capacity and capability of the practice.
- Contribute to the delivery of financial and operational performance in line with budgets and forecasts, seeking out opportunities wherever possible to over-deliver against agreed targets.
- Engage with key stakeholders to support the implementation of a market-facing sub-practice strategy which balances the needs of all stakeholders across the short, medium, and long term whilst ensuring growth, profitability, and sustainability.

**Core Role Knowledge, Skills, and Experience**:

- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to inspire, collaborate, and engage effectively across small-to-medium sized teams.
- Track record of developing self and others to deliver demonstrable results.
- Able to establish trusted relationships with clients and get satisfaction from meeting and exceeding client expectations.
- Possess commercial acumen and technical knowledge and be able to contribute to the positioning of the sub-practice as a leading partner.
- Possess a proactive and client-focused attitude towards delivery.
- Ability to critically assess projects of low to medium complexity to identify risks and opportunities and use project management and governance processes to balance business and client needs.
- Experience of supporting the creation and successful delivery of financial and operational performance budgets and forecasts, taking inputs from various stakeholders.
- Track record of supporting the implementation of strategies which reconcile the needs of key stakeholders and time horizons.
- Evidence of successful implementation and delivery of these strategies.
- Also possess knowledge, experience and expertise of Rail Operations, commensurate with the role and grade.

**Why work for Atkins?**

Our Transportation teams are reinventing transport for a challenging yet exciting future. We're creating new ideas and smart solutions for cities, people and the environment. Y