Description:
Are you an Economist with a background in economic development? Buro Happold are looking for an Associate Director to join our team in London in helping shape creative solutions to address challenges facing the UK. The role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package.
Key Duties:
- Contribute to developing an active pipeline of business opportunities aligned with the business plan.
- Developing tailored consulting technical solutions; ensuring the delivery of exceptional cradle to grave support to clients, delivering an approach that adapts to their understanding, experience and needs.
- Main project lead taking ownership of the financial and technical success of the projects whilst strengthening the client relationships and repeat business opportunities.
- Contributing towards innovation, technical capability and skills development initiatives and programmes.
- Monitors and manages the successful delivery of projects in this context and in terms of technical quality, timely delivery, financial performance and client satisfaction.
- Maintaining an accurate picture of current and future market trends in order to establish and continuously improve our offering across the sector.
- Accountable for effective business and project planning on projects where project Leader; and supporting own direct reports to deliver in this respect.
Your Skills and Experiences:
- Provide economic and financial analyses in cross-disciplinary strategic advisory projects including economic development strategies/policies, integrated urban development and strategic spatial planning projects.
- Experience of working with UK public and private sector.
- A deep understanding of the economic drivers behind development projects and the built environment.
- Leading the development of business cases using the UK Treasury Green Book approach.
- Conducting socio-economic impact analyses for policies and projects.
- Building and reviewing financial models for projects of different scales, from large-scale regional redevelopments and portfolios to single investments.
- Project leadership and management skills with a track record of exceptional technical delivery (5+ years post qualification experience).
- Effective stakeholder management and engagement skills.
- A collaborative team player effective in leading high performing multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Experience of work winning and ability to build relationships with clients. Active within relevant industry or topic based networks.
- Capacity to innovate and work at the leading edge of our industry evidenced through involvement in incubation and application of new solutions, thought leadership and applied research and development activities.