Associate Director – Business Advisory (M4)
Job Description
Job title: Associate Director – Business Advisory (M4)
Company: Mace Group
Job description: 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 .
Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential of every project.
The project: A great opportunity for ambitious people with a background in strategic advisory to join our expanding business advisory team within Mace consult.
Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:
- 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
Part of our business advisory centre of excellence, our 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 skillset to complement our current team by offering business case, transformation or asset optimisation expertise across a variety of sectors in the property resilience market, including nuclear, energy and utilities.
Our business advisory team offer support to Mace consult across the project and programme delivery lifecycle and the successful candidates will provide their expertise at the early stages of project and programme conception, working closely with our delivery colleagues to leverage learning from major programmes into the business case process.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Delivering HMT Green Book 5 case business plans.
- Developing investment cases and/or programme business cases across major programmes.
- Financial and/or economic modelling.
- Managing multiple complex stakeholders on major programmes.
- Change and transformation work e.g., organisational design, organisational development, process redesign and efficiency.
- Ensuring excellence in client liaison and service, maintaining, and developing a professional relationship with key members within our clients’ organisations.
- Providing appropriate skills and support to business development – developing new business opportunities and working to support a range of bid activities.
- In-depth knowledge of one or more sectors (e.g., property, defence, nuclear, utilities, energy transition, rail, highways, aviation, commercial, manufacturing).
You’ll need to have:
- Capability of change and transformation, business case development or asset optimisation.
- Professional qualification or charters in relation to these areas and post-graduate level study.
- Technical skills and have contacts across government and industry.
- Demonstrate work-winning capability and establish and grow a service line and team.
- Transferable skills which can be deployed across different sectors from whatever your industry background.
- Flexible and agile to meet emerging demands while working in a small team.
- Experience in property, defence or major infrastructure projects is desirable but other industry backgrounds are considered.
You’ll also have:
- Flexibility, and team player you will bring a wealth of other skills across major programme delivery and align with the Mace values and behaviours.
- Creative collaborators who generate good ideas as well as exceptional work. The nature of our work means you may be working on multiple commissions at the same time and have a fast turnover of short to medium-term projects so you will feel comfortable adapting to different subject matter and environments.
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.
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