Digital Consultant

Location/s: Manchester, London, Birmingham, Leeds; UK
Recruiter contact: Danielle Rhall

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Strategic advisory

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

About the team

Mott MacDonald’s Digital Consulting team helps clients define, implement and operate digital capabilities that improve organisational performance and delivery outcomes. We work across major infrastructure, transportation, energy, defence, water, cities and government sectors, helping clients answer critical questions such as:

• How do we improve our data and information management capability, our decision-making, share knowledge and lessons learned, and optimise our delivery?
• How do we maximise value from our information, data and knowledge, through technology, digital twins and smart cities technology and AI?
• How do we transform our operating model, implement digital change and new ways of working, whilst realising measurable benefits?

Our team combines expertise spanning digital strategy, information management, business analysis, enterprise architecture, data and analytics, digital delivery, and change management and supports clients in AI and emerging technologies readiness.

Overview of the role

As a Digital Consultant, you will help clients solve complex business and digital challenges by shaping strategy, defining requirements and delivering transformational change. Working across digital, data, information and technology domains, you will support clients to understand their needs, develop target operating models and governance frameworks, design and validate solutions, and prepare organisations for successful adoption and implementation.

This is a highly client-facing role requiring strong stakeholder management, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and support decision-making at all levels. You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality outcomes, while also contributing to business development, thought leadership, capability growth and work-winning activities.

We are seeking consultants who combine strategic thinking with practical delivery experience, are comfortable operating in complex environments, and bring a blend of consulting, analysis, digital and transformation expertise, underpinned by strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Build and maintain trusted client relationships, understanding organisational objectives, challenges and opportunities to shape tailored digital solutions
• Develop digital strategies, operating models and implementation roadmaps that enable clients to achieve business objectives and deliver value
• Support clients in identifying digital opportunities, developing business cases and delivering measurable improvements in organisational performance, project delivery and asset outcomes
• Help design and support the implementation of digital, information and data capabilities that improve organisational performance, decision-making and delivery outcomes
• Define requirements, governance approaches and information needs that support effective decision-making, digital delivery and business objectives
• Analyse, optimise and design business processes that support enterprise architecture, systems integration and effective information flow
• Manage stakeholder engagement activities, including workshops, interviews and discovery sessions, to capture requirements and identify opportunities
• Support adoption and communication planning

Consultants are not expected to be specialists across all areas of digital consulting. Successful candidates will typically bring broad consulting capability alongside deeper expertise in one or more disciplines such as the digital transformation, business analysis, information and data management, organisational change or digital delivery out detailed below.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Experience with organisational digital maturity assessment, evaluating current and future-state operating environments and identifying improvements
• Demonstrable experience with strategy development, operating models, transformation roadmaps, business cases and implementation plans
• Strong analysis, process design and problem-solving skills, including requirements gathering, gap analysis and solution development
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence and build relationships
• Ability to facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder discussions, capturing complex information into clear recommendations
• Experience implementing and applying industry best practice and standards such as ISO 19650, tailoring approaches with practical solutions to meet client objectives
• Knowledge of digital transformation, information management, data, AI and emerging technologies, including the opportunities or challenges they present
• Experience supporting or leading digital transformation initiatives
• We welcome candidates with deeper expertise in one or more of the following disciplines:
  • Data and Information
    • Information and Data Management
    • Asset Information Management
    • Data Analytics and Engineering
    • Information, Data and AI Governance
  • Connected Intelligence
    • Digital Twin and Smart Cities technologies
    • Business and Enterprise

Desirable:

• Professional qualification, certification and accreditation in a digital field
• Commercial awareness with experience supporting business development and identifying new opportunities
• Experience contributing to or leading bids and proposals
• Familiarity with data, asset and information management systems used within major infrastructure and capital delivery programmes
• Understanding of market trends, emerging technologies and industry challenges, with the ability to translate these into client opportunities and practical solutions

We welcome applications from candidates across the UK. Periodic travel will be required to support client delivery across the UK and, occasionally, internationally.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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