Analyst

Mott MacDonald; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Wellbeing program

Enhanced holiday entitlement (33-35+)

Flexible benefits including salary opt

Employee ownership model

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking an Innovation Consultant within the Advisory and Programme Delivery unit to design and deliver innovation systems across Transport, Energy and Water sectors in the UK. You will work with engineering, environment and social teams to implement innovation initiatives and contribute to transformation programs.

The role offers innovation training, coaching on new methodologies, and a mentorship program within a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in your chosen field through previous roles, internships, volunteering opportunities, or organization memberships
• Creative thinking with methodical, pragmatic problem-solving approach
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage confidently with clients and colleagues
• Resilient, solution-oriented mindset with focus on continuous growth and delivering value
• Collaborative spirit and commitment to teamwork

Responsibilities

• Join a growing team of innovation consultants working on Transport, Energy and Water projects across the UK
• Design innovation systems and deliver innovation initiatives with domain experts in engineering, environment and social
• Contribute to Transformation and digital initiatives within the Business Change portfolio; participate in AI Studio learning and mentorship programs

Skills

Interest in field

Creative thinking

Communication skills

Resilience

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in technical or business discipline

Tools

Agile project management

Job description

Location

UK-wide

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.

Strategic advisory

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

Overview of the role

Come and join our growing team of inspirational, ambitious and digitally-enabled innovation consultants working on Transport, Energy and Water projects throughout the UK. Reporting to our Innovation Managing Consultant you work within a project team designing innovation systems and delivering innovation initiatives for our clients working with our domain experts in engineering, environment & social whilst drawing from our innovation management playbook.

You will also have the opportunity to work across our Business Change portfolio on projects for transformation and digital initiatives. We offer innovation training and coaching to the latest innovation management methodologies and digital training through AI Studio using Copilot, best in class learning and development initiatives and a dedicated mentorship program.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Demonstrated interest in your chosen field through previous roles, internships, volunteering opportunities, or organization memberships
• Creative thinking skills, with a methodical and pragmatic approach to problem solving
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage confidently with clients and colleagues
• Resilient, solution-oriented mindset, with a focus on continuous growth and delivering value
• Collaborative spirit and commitment to teamwork
• Degree qualified in technical or business discipline

Desirable:

• Agile project management
• Presentations to diverse stakeholder
• Use of digital tools to analyse information
• Bringing your new perspectives to this role

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.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at [e-mail] and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

Benefits

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.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• 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.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

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.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.