Principal Consultant Asset Management

Job Description

Location/s: London, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

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.

About the team

As part of strengthening our Strategic Advisory capability, we have established the Asset, Data & Information (ADI) chapter)—a unified hub that brings together our expertise across Asset Management, Digital innovation and Information Management.

For asset management professionals, this structure enhances the way we support clients in improving asset performance, investment planning, lifecycle optimisation and risk-based decision-making. Through ADI, we integrate:

• Asset Management — strategy, capability development, lifecycle planning and operational excellence
• Data — data-enabled insight, digital transformation, automation and modern delivery approaches
• Information Management — structured information flow, data quality, governance and interoperability

This integrated model ensures we deliver holistic asset-centric solutions, enabling clients to make better decisions, optimise value from their assets, and build long-term resilience.

Overview of the role

Are you an Asset Management professional, with experience in the Buildings sector?

Owing to continued growth within our Buildings Advisory services, particularly Healthcare, we are looking for a Principal Asset Management Consultant with strong experience in Buildings who is passionate about delivering great outcomes for infrastructure owners and operators.

As a Principal Asset Management Consultant, you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, to support strategic opportunities in building our asset management services. You will play a vital role in growing the business, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities.

You will be part of our entrepreneurial and growing team, providing industry-leading, award-winning consulting services. Together with our clients, we support the creation of asset management capability to enable delivery of business objectives and optimise asset performance to deliver outcomes more effectively and allow our clients to make the most of the infrastructure assets they own.

Day to day you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, helping to manage concurrent priorities across the team; to support, manage, and direct more junior staff, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. Providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, as well as bringing an established network of contacts to the role that will help foster growth of the business, whilst also keeping abreast of industry best practice. We want you to be a proactive participant across the asset management markets. It's important that you take every opportunity to enhance the Mott MacDonald brand and highlight our capabilities.

You will play a key role in supporting our clients to understand and improve the condition, performance and compliance of their assets. Working across a diverse portfolio—spanning public sector buildings, complex estates, and operational environments—you will help inform investment decisions, manage risk, and support reliable service delivery.

Our work focuses on achieving measurable outcomes: improving safety, compliance, value for money, and user experience. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, operational stakeholders and senior client decision-makers to deliver practical, evidence-led solutions that drive better whole-life performance of buildings.

Candidate specification

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of asset management in Buildings and who is proactive and enthusiastic about providing quality service to clients across the broader Asset Management Sector. It's important that we find someone who has a demonstrable passion for delivering asset management excellence. A track record in successful project delivery, or significant elements of major project delivery and familiarity with the principles of lean and agile working, are also important.

We are a dynamic and growing team and are challenged to thinking big and scale up fast, which will require a high degree of agility and co-operation across the whole team. To thrive, you'll need strong analytical and leadership skills, be comfortable working with disruptive technologies and at times challenge current practice.

If this sounds like you, we'd also like you to have:

• Relevant delivery experience in management consultancy or asset management
• A solid track record working within the Buildings sector, preferably Healthcare across London estates or similar complex environments
• Experience of developing asset management capabilities within organisations and maturing the organisational approach to asset management
• Experience in assessing, analysing and presenting asset condition and performance insights to inform decision-making
• Experience supporting or leading the development of asset management strategies, lifecycle plans and investment cases
• Strong delivery skills and project management experience, ability to lead projects and manage a team of consultants
• Eagerness to develop new skills and commit to further expanding your knowledge within different areas of asset management
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose issues and develop tailored solutions
• Proven experience in supporting clients through key transitions, such as project-to-operations handover, readiness assessments or mobilisation phases
• Institute of Asset Management certificate or diploma are desirable

Other desirable qualities include:

• Relationship building skills—ability to develop strong client, team and stakeholder relationships, with confidence engaging at both technical and senior levels
• Ability to interpret data, draw insights and present recommendations clearly and succinctly
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, demonstrating initiative, leadership and adaptability when working autonomously or within wider teams
• Experience optimising cost, lifecycle investment and whole-life performance
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written, with the ability to prepare concise reports, dashboards or briefings for client audiences
• A commitment to continuous improvement, innovation and adopting best practice in asset management and building performance

In addition, periods of travel are expected to be able to support the UK (and on rare occasions international) business.

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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.
• 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.

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.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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