Divisional Senior Defence Leader

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Mott MacDonald is one of the UK’s leading Defence consultancy organisations committed to supporting the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to deliver their future infrastructure and equipment needs.

We are a major supplier of Engineering, Consultancy and Project / Programme / Portfolio management services to the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and undertake significant work for other MOD organisations too.

Our defence business is growing and has ambitious plans. If you’d like to be part of this and benefit from a rewarding a varied career, then this role could be perfect for you.

Many different parts of the Mott MacDonald Group provide services to Defence and we are at our best when operating as integrated cross business unit teams drawing upon the most appropriate resources and services from our business.

To support this growth our Buildings and Cities Business Unit (BNC) are recruiting for a Divisional Defence Sector Lead for the Northern Division.

The Northern Division operates from offices in Altrincham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, and Teesside.

The Divisional Defence Sector Lead role is the key interface between the divisional business and the national defence sector leadership.

The role is highly customer facing with roughly 60% hands on delivery or leadership of complex projects with the other 40% focussed on winning new work, co-ordinating across the business, and supporting wider defence initiatives.

This role will report to the Technical Advisory Resource Manager.

Delivery / Do:

- Acting as Project Manager or Project Director for the delivery of projects.
- Ensuring projects are set up for, and deliver, commercial success.
- Drive excellence in service delivery, development of new services, innovative solutions and implementing continuous improvement actions.
- Communicate performance and significant issues to relevant colleagues.

Resource / Team Management:

- Collaborate with Divisional Resource Managers to develop and grow the capability and capacity of the team in line with our strategic objectives.
- Lead projects and delivery teams to support individuals working on defence projects.
- Work with other divisional leads to ensure the right resource is deployed at the right time.
- Win:

- Win work and drive business development opportunities with responsibility for leading the direction and focus of proposals
- Actively engage in the prioritisation of bidding activity and working with the Divisional Development Manager to agree appropriate Decision to Capture and Decision to Bid resourcing plans and budgets.
- Provide leadership in proposal development and oversight of proposals produced for defence within the division
- Customer Relationships:

- Interact regularly with the customer as part of the Account zipper
- Be the first point of escalation above project team for any project issues
- Planning / Growth:

- Accountable for operational delivery of strategies to support overall growth.
- Contribute to business plans.
- Contribute to the work of the defence leadership team within BNC.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are required to ensure success, as this role will involve stakeholder engagement both internal to Mott MacDonald and with our customers.
- Industry recognised professional qualification, such as PMI, APM, CEng, or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Significant experience of delivering buildings and/or infrastructure projects
- Demonstrable experience of full lifecycle project delivery
- Experience of taking government projects through the 5 case business case would be beneficial, as would experience of working for contractors in the D&B environment
- A flexibility to work across the MOD estate within the geographical area of the Division
- Experience managing projects to high levels of financial (value for money), technical or political scrutiny would be beneficial.
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If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Job Profile
- About the business unit
The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.
- How to apply

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Benefits we offer:

- Pension matched up to 7%
- Life insu