Managing / Principal Consultant - Business Change

Location/s: London, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, Sheffield; UK 
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

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
Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams align the future state of their enterprise and programmes with their people, processes, information, and technology. We are highly experienced and adept at complex and integrated problem solving, with expertise in asset management, business change, digital and data, value chain solutions and social impact. Our client base is diverse covering public, private and third sectors.

We work in diverse and collaborative teams and want our people to have exciting and fulfilling careers full of equal opportunities for growth, with a real sense of purpose through meaningful work and relationships. All of this is underpinned by a culture of trust and transparency. We deliver our work face to face and online as a fully blended team, continuing to embrace technology change to support greater flexibility and work-life balance.

Overview of role
This opportunity is for a Managing / Principal Consultant specialising in a range of business change capabilities, including improvement and transformation, collaboration, innovation, social impact and business cases. We are looking for a creative and dynamic person eager to progress their career and support clients in tackling organisational challenges, enhancing business performance, and becoming more successful, resilient, and sustainable. If you have recent and relevant experience in delivering and leading high quality consultancy services to clients, we would love to hear from you.

We invest in our people through formal and informal training and professional chartership opportunities; mentoring and coaching; networking and a chance to be part of a thriving community of like-minded colleagues. If not already achieved, we expect our consultants to work towards becoming chartered management consultants.

Key responsibilities and duties include: 

• Lead and support high complexity assignments for external infrastructure clients across the range of our services, including management of commercial aspects and contractual terms
• Be an established industry-recognised generalist or subject matter expert with impact and influence in at least one of our capabilities
• Demonstrate key attributes including collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and digital capability, personal development, assignment delivery, technical excellence and business development
• Lead and manage teams delivering assignments from initiation to close
• Facilitate and manage mid to senior-level internal and external client relationships
• Provide subject matter expertise to clients and colleagues
• Demonstrate our PRIDE values
• Support the overall team in business and commercial development, including direct client engagement; promoting our services across the UK and internationally; creating and maintaining a robust pipeline of opportunities; and work-winning from existing and new clients
• Build internal and external networks
• Support the development of team capabilities

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Applying change management principles, methodologies and tools that underpin change management, with a proven track record of achieving results
• Establishing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships influencing others to move towards a common vision and gaining ‘buy in’ to enable change
• Experience in working in client facing roles with strong consultancy skills
• Working in and leading cross-functional teams
• Reviewing and influencing current and future processes and target operating models
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills to clearly articulate messages to a wide variety of audiences
• Working in innovative and creative ways
• Awareness of 3PM, lean, better business cases, and benefits management

Desirable:

• Relevant technical discipline accreditation and/or business degree qualified
• Any of the following qualifications: agile project management, programme and / or portfolio management, strategy development / design thinking, Six Sigma / Lean, , business case development, change management (APMG, ProSci Practitioner, ACMP CCMP)
• Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC)
• Awareness of ISO 56000 series
• UK Government security clearance

Due to high levels of interest, this role will close at midnight on Wednesday 14th May 2025.

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.

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.

Agile working  

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace. 

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

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.

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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.