Senior Business Advisory Consultant Strategy and Investment

Senior Business Advisory Consultant Strategy and Investment

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

The project:

A great opportunity for a technical expert with a background in advisory services to join our expanding strategy and investment team within Mace consult. We set up clients for success to improve delivery confidence by bringing our global learning and expertise to inform the set up and mobilisation of projects and programmes.

Part of our advisory services centre of excellence, the strategy and investment team has a proven track record of successfully delivering a wide variety of work with both property and infrastructure clients across the globe.

We are seeking candidates with a broad and flexible technical skillset to complement our current team by offering strategy and investment expertise across a variety of sectors. You will be focused on service excellence, continuous improvement and product development.

To support our growth, we are currently seeking to recruit senior advisory managers with proven expertise in consultancy work.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

Manages the delivery of technical commission delivery in complex, dynamic and uncertain environments during the pre-conception, feasibility and early stages of projects and programmes. Provides comprehensive in-depth technical capability from specific professional discipline and/or specialist capabilities to deploy in an advisory capacity across more than one client and/or sector. Accountable for the technical aspects of projects and programmes or will bring specialist expertise to larger projects and programmes.

You'll be responsible for:

• Providing comprehensive support with the commission team to achieve outputs, providing technical advice on commissions working across one portfolio/organisations.
• Sharing technical/functional/domain expertise to upskill capabilities.
• Recommending key technical elements of proposal development and commission delivery, integrating technical expertise with other capabilities to achieve key deliverables and milestones.
• Developing and maintaining a series of both internal and external relationships and extensive networks across the commission team and internal and external stakeholders.
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvements and technical options/solutions to client issues and business improvements.
• Managing client relationship management activities related to a specific technical area.
• Delivering into the business development strategy and work winning by sharing experience in technical skills to identify new opportunities and providing innovative solutions.
• Advancing technical/functional knowledge, expertise and experience in (area/discipline/specialism).
• Providing mentoring/training to members of the team.
• Using advanced technical capabilities/discipline expertise to support technical solutions and client issues.
• Working collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

You'll need to have:

• In depth knowledge of one or more property and infrastructure sectors (e.g., aviation, rail, roads, healthcare, nuclear, utilities, energy transition).
• Excellent analytical skills - use of Excel and external data sources.
• Technical qualification or chartership (or equivalent).
• Ability to develop options and conclusions from the analysis of technical data.
• Ability to convert specialist technical knowledge into accessible format for clients.
• Ability to apply technical knowledge to emerging technology and processes.
• Subject matter expert in at least one technical skill related to property or infrastructure.
• Experience of applying technical skills in a consultancy environment.
• Ability to structure own work programme and lead a team producing output in a specialist subject area.
• Extensive level of applying technical specialist capability on complex projects and in an uncertain environment.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team and communicate across the team and business.
• Ability to work as part of a team, taking on varied tasks to achieve commission milestones.

You'll also have:

• Degree or equivalent level of study (or equivalent).
• Cross sector transferable skills.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.