Managing Director, Benefits responsible for new sales growth through consultative partnerships in worksite insurance. Building relationships with buyers and distributors to enhance sales efforts in Atlanta and Tennessee.
About the role
- Lead design consulting projects within Sheffield's infrastructure development, ensuring operational excellence and client satisfaction at Amey Consulting. Combine strategic leadership to drive team performance and commercial success.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the delivery of design consulting projects to budget, on time, and with positive client satisfaction
- Develops and implements robust strategies to optimised margin targets, with full P&L responsibility for the contract area
- Ensures optimal use of Consulting resources and fosters collaboration with technical practices and the wider business and supply chain where appropriate
- Leads day-to-day contract performance, including regular site and office visits (min. 3 days per week)
- Maintains strong client relationships through regular reviews and proactive issue management
- Identifes and manages risks to delivery, developing contingency plans as needed
- Drives service excellence, efficiency, and continuous improvement, sharing best practice across contracts/frameworks
- Manages mobilisation and demobilisation of projects in line with budget allowances
- Ensures compliance with Amey governance, systems, tools, processes, and risk management standards
- Contributes to bidding activity and seeks additional revenue opportunities through business development
- Promotes a strong health and safety culture aligned to Amey’s Zero Code, ensuring safe processes, procedures, and behaviours
- Champions a culture of innovation, encouraging the team to seek out and implement new ideas and improvements in project delivery and operational practices
- Sets and communicates a clear vision for the delivery team, aligning project outcomes with broader business objectives and client needs.
- Establishes and maintains strong relationships with client stakeholders, ensuring regular feedback loops and acting on client input to enhance satisfaction
- Systematically captures client feedback, compliments, and testimonials to support future work winning and continuous improvement.
- Implements systematic risk and opportunity management processes, with regular reviews at project, programme and portfolio levels
- Ensures lessons learned and best practices are captured and shared across teams to drive performance improvement and mitigate future risks.
- Promotes and embeds a Target Zero culture, ensuring safety, environmental, and quality compliance in all activities
- Conducts regular wellbeing check-ins and audits, including cross-team audits, to continually improve processes and team engagement
- Encourages prompt reporting and resolution of close calls and incidents.
- Demonstrate experience and understanding of complex contracts (e.g., NEC3/NEC4), including change and risk processes
- Takes ownership of delivery budgets, ensuring robust financial management and performance against targets
Requirements
- A strong track record delivering large, complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering projects
- Excellent project management capability and commercial acumen
- Experience working within a consultancy and matrix‑structured organisation
- Strong communication, influencing and relationship‑building skills
- Confidence managing budgets and driving efficiency improvements
- A natural ability to collaborate, motivate and bring people together
- Resilience, adaptability and the ability to navigate ambiguity
- A commitment to high ethical standards and integrity
- Degree‑qualified or equivalent experience
- Professional qualification (e.g., Chartered Engineer, Prince2, APM)
- Leadership/management qualification (desirable)
Benefits
- Career Development
- Clear progression pathways and a structured development framework
- Dedicated mentoring and support
- Chartership support and a generous Chartership bonus
- Work-Life Balance
- Hybrid, part-time and flexible working options
- A nationwide network of offices to support flexible working patterns
- Wellbeing
- Health cash plan
- 24/7 GP access
- Employee assistance programmes
- Wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday
- Dental vouchers
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- We celebrate individuality and community.
- Our Affinity Groups include: Women @ Amey, NeuroDiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability, Parents & Carers.
- Social Value
- Two paid Community Involvement Days each year
- Opportunities to support local charities and fundraising initiatives
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