Associate (Information Management & Digital Delivery)

COWI; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private health care

Group pension

28 days annual leave

Job summary

COWI UK & Ireland is seeking an Associate in Information Management & Digital Delivery to lead information management and ISO 19650 governance on major infrastructure and energy projects.

You will translate standards into practical delivery approaches, support bids, and ensure alignment with project realities while mentoring teams across UK&I. Hybrid working and strong development opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading information management in multi-disciplinary projects.
• Expertise applying ISO 19650 across procurement, mobilisation, delivery.
• Strong governance, assurance, and quality management skills.
• Ability to influence outcomes across projects and teams.
• Experience contributing to bids and framework mobilisation from an information management perspective.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in information management and ISO 19650 across UK&I projects.
• Translate standards, guidance, and governance requirements into practical delivery approaches.
• Act as escalation point for complex information management challenges with clear guidance.
• Maintain connection to live project delivery and ensure practical information management approaches.
• Support project mobilisations, delivery, and assurance stages, including intervention when needed.
• Contribute to audits, assurance, and compliance activities.

Skills

Information management

ISO 19650 leadership

Governance & assurance

Bid support

Tools

CDE platforms

Job description

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to provide leadership in digital delivery? Can you inspire others? Are you experienced information management? Then, this is the place to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrowTo strengthen our UK & Ireland digital delivery capability, we are looking for an experienced Associate (Information Management & Digital Delivery) to join us. Working on a range of infrastructure and energy projects you’ll provide leadership across information management, ISO 19650 implementation, and digital delivery governance and assurance.

This role provides depth, resilience, and influence across projects and frameworks (internally and externally), while supporting bids within the UK&I. It also contributes to knowledge-sharing across UK&I, Business Line UK & International, and alignment across the wider COWI business. The role is suited to an individual who brings strong professional credibility, sound judgement, and a pragmatic understanding of how information management and digital delivery enable better project outcomes.

The individual will operate as a trusted peer within the Digital Delivery Management Team, supporting alignment and operational delivery effectiveness. The role balances governance and assurance with hands-on engagement where required, ensuring standards are applied in a way that is scalable, practical, and aligned with project realities.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Information Management & ISO 19650 Leadership

• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in information management and the application of the ISO 19650 framework across UK&I projects
• Translate standards, guidance, and governance requirements into practical, adoptable delivery approaches that support project teams
• Act as an escalation point for complex or high-risk information management challenges, providing clear, proportionate guidance.

Delivery-Connected Governance & Assurance

• Maintain a strong connection to live project delivery, ensuring information management approaches remain grounded in operational reality
• Support project teams during mobilisation, delivery, and assurance stages, including targeted intervention where projects require stabilisation or reset
• Contribute to audit, assurance, and compliance activity, ensuring outcomes are focused on quality, consistency, and value rather than process alone
• Provide input to bids, tenders, and framework responses, shaping information management strategies, risk positions, and mobilisation approaches
• Support project and framework mobilisation, ensuring information requirements, delivery plans, and governance structures are clearly defined and achievable
• Contribute to commercial discussions where information management scope, resourcing, and delivery models impact project performance

Discipline Resilience & Capability Development

• Strengthen resilience within the Digital Delivery discipline by sharing subject matter leadership
• Mentor and support colleagues across UK&I, Business Lines UK & International, and EDC
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of internal information management guidance, templates, and best practice.
• Build trusted relationships with project managers, engineers, clients, and external stakeholders, helping articulate the value of digital delivery and information management
• Represent COWI credibly in technical and professional discussions where appropriate, supporting the organisation’s reputation
• Promote a collaborative, pragmatic, and delivery-focused culture aligned with COWI’s values.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for your team and supporting them in taking ownership of their work. You always delegate responsibility and ensure an open and safe dialogue, and you coach your people to achieve their aspirations through constructive, fact-based feedback. Attracting and nurturing a diverse group of high-potential team members is at the top of your agenda, as is creating an inclusive, caring and trusting culture in your team.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Significant experience in information management and digital delivery leadership within complex, multidisciplinary project environments
• Demonstrable expertise in the ISO 19650 framework and its practical application across procurement, mobilisation, delivery, and assurance stages
• Proven ability to influence outcomes across projects, frameworks, and teams
• Strong understanding of governance, assurance, and quality management, with the ability to balance consistency and flexibility
• Experience contributing to bids, frameworks, or major project mobilisation from an information management perspective
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the credibility to engage confidently with senior stakeholders
• A collaborative leadership style, with a clear commitment to mentoring, capability development, and team resilience

Highly Desirable

• Professional chartership and/or fellowship within a relevant institution (ICE/IET)
• Experience supporting or contributing to industry standards, guidance, or professional communities
• Familiarity with common data environments and digital delivery platforms used on major UK&I and international projects
• Experience aligning information management approaches with wider quality, collaboration, and information security frameworks
• A strong interest in continuous improvement, innovation, and raising the standard of digital delivery practice

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you anda contribution from you foryour immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include:

• Electric vehicle lease
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Abhinav Khanna at [e-mail] Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com , where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.