Senior Manager - Digital Advisory

London, England, United Kingdom

12/4/2024

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join us as a Senior Manager in our Digital Advisory team and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

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Buro Happold’s Digital Advisory team focuses on delivering technology and information transformation to clients to enhance their financial, environmental, and social performance (the triple-bottom-line, across people, planet and places ). 

Our projects vary considerably; from defining the smart city technologies that will transform the resident, worker, or visitor experience of a bleeding edge city in the middle east, to developing a sophisticated data-driven 3D twin of a university campus to determine the most effective route to net zero carbon, to outlining how technology can add significant revenue streams across football clubs in the UK, to defining the team, processes and policies required for our clients to manage data quickly and securely... However, all our projects have engineering or ‘real-world’ asset expertise at their core and it is that, with our relentless focus on the triple-bottom-line, that makes us unique.  

The team works across a range of consulting areas covering digital strategy and transformation, digital systems and solutions and data and analytics. We are looking for colleagues who want to collaborate with our other global offices, our experts in design, and technologists internally and externally to make a real-world difference. 

Our market leading capability has resulted in the UK Digital Advisory team more than doubling in size over the last year with a strong growth plan and pipeline to double in size again this year. To support this growth, we are looking for a Senior Manager to add further client and business leadership capability, with a focus on Sports & Venue and/or Smart City / Urban development projects.  

Key Duties:

• Owning the quality assurance and client relationship for 2-3 digital strategy or transformation engagement with a focus on client satisfaction and client growth.
• Leading day-to-day delivery for our most strategic and complex engagements, structuring and managing the workstreams and supervising delivery.
• Driving business development of digital strategy and transformation projects from opportunity identification through to proposal conversion.
• Reviewing and continuously improving our capability - methodology, tools, templates, and training.
• Practice-wide leadership role supporting and managing team development through coaching, mentoring, and identifying and plugging gaps through training and recruitment. 
• Cementing yourself as a subject-matter expert and proactively trying to develop a thought leadership profile in the industry.
  
  
  

Your skills & experience:

• Significant experience from a consulting firm or related role within industry.
• Digital experience in urban environments, specifically sports & venues, and/or smart city masterplanning projects is significantly preferable.
• Proven experience leading consulting engagements with strong client management skills.
• Track record in proposition development, team building, and account management
• Experience, content knowledge, and practice in one of: digital innovation, digital strategy development, digital transformation related to smart places.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint.
• Relevant digital or business (CA, ACA, MBA) professional qualification would be beneficial.
  
  
  

What we offer:

• Attractive benefits package including, car allowance, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme - 10% employer contribution.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
  
  
  

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.