Transport Markets Director

Worldline; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Magellan is seeking a Transport Markets Director to lead UK&I Transport strategy, stakeholder engagement, and government relations. You will work with product, sales, and marketing teams to shape transport initiatives and grow the business.

The role requires deep knowledge of government policy in transport, strong leadership, and the ability to influence decision-makers while aligning Magellan’s solutions with market needs.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with government bodies and regional authorities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and bid processes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Magellan's UK&I Transport vision and strategy with the leadership team.
• Manage stakeholder engagement with national and regional government and senior figures.
• Direct and coordinate trade bodies (Madano, RIA, ITS UK) to generate new business.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic leadership

Public sector understanding

Job description

Magellan is an international Management and Technology Consulting Group. Our strength lies in our ability to combine businessexpertiseand technological excellence to support companies and public organizations throughout their transformation journeys.

VISION IN ACTION

In an environment where change is accelerating, organizations must continuously reinvent their models to remain competitive. To address these challenges, we support our clients from strategy definition through operational implementation, combining businessexpertise, technological mastery, and execution capabilities.

Joining Magellan means becoming part of a community of 6,700 committed professionals united by a shared ambition:address our clients' challenges in all their complexity to build practical, actionable solutions that are closely aligned with real-world needs.

What will your future missions look like?

By joining Magellan, you will work within multidisciplinary teams and contribute to impactful projects at the heart of major transformations: Generative AI, intelligent platforms, social and environmental challenges, and more.

What Magellan guarantees you: a professional experience that is people-centered, enriching, and fulfilling!

Background and context:

Tech for good. Beyond payments. We are a trusted partner delivering secure digital services for consumers and citizens. Our activities have the potential of generating a positive impact by addressing some of the most pressing challenges in our society. And just as we help our customers accelerate their business, we are committed to helping our people accelerate their careers. Together, we shape the evolution.

Our end-to-end digital services with technology products, data and expertise to address customer challenges and priorities. We support our customers’ digital transformation with the creation of innovative solutions, leveraging our products, bringing specialist expertise and sharing experience across sectors. Inside MeTS, the Transport and Mobility Pillar has a mission to power journeys and movement worldwide,

connecting people wherever and however they need to travel, whilst prioritising customer satisfaction and social empowerment of our people. The \"Transport and Mobility\" pillar covers the following segments:

• TransportRetail:connectingpeopletotransportationsystemstoimprovetheirdailylives
• MobilityOrchestration:IntegratingtransportmodestomakeMaaSareality
• TransportOperations:deliveringTheTimePromiseTM,byconnectingtherightpeopletotherightassets
• SettlementandSpecialistservices:providinglargescalecriticalplatformstokeeptransportonthemove

Within the UK&I Sales and Business Development team, the Transport Markets Director leads our work in setting out our vision for transport, stakeholder engagement, managing the supporting organisations that underpin that effort and effectively supports the business development and bid teams in gathering intelligence, creating the network of relationships and producing the winning bids that are critical to long term success.

The Transport Markets Director, reporting to the UK&I Sales & Business Development Director, works with the business development, product teams, and the marketing and communications team to ensure high quality engagement, communication and relationship development to help in growing the existing customer base and business, developing new opportunities and providing competitive insights.

The Transport Markets Director will have a clear and extensive knowledge of government policy towards transport, the role and responsibilities of regional government and the challenges facing both the rail sector and the public transport sector more generally, as it works towards greater integration.

The Director will have a working knowledge of emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI, and their role in transforming the transport sector going forward, as well as actions from competitors in the transport space and of course portfolio of Magellan's solutions and services both existing and being developed.

• Evolving the Magellan UK&I Transport vision and story, working closely with the CEO of Transport & Mobility, the Product Teams, and the Sales and Marketing organisation, amongst other key stakeholders
• Managingandsupportingstakeholderengagementwithnationalandregionalgovernment,politicalstakeholders,governmentdepartments,seniorindustryfiguresandexistingandprospectivecustomers
• Directing, leading and setting objectives for Magellan's supporting and trade organisations (including Madano, RIA and ITS UK) in aligning with and contributing to the culture of growth in Magellan through the generation of new business
• Developingandmanagingthestakeholdermappingandconsequentcommunicationandmessageplanningwithstakeholdersatalllevels
• Workingwiththebusinessdevelopmentcommunityandbidteamstosupportthehighestqualitybidsandtenders,includingdraftingsectionsandexecutivesummaries
• Building strong relationships, both individually and in conjunction with the business development team with a range of key stakeholders across the political and industry landscape – influencing decision-making, raising awareness of Magellan's business and gathering intelligence that will inform our market engagement going forward
• Workingeffectivelyacrossinternalteams,buildingsolidworkingrelationshipswhichenablethebestcombinationofskills,abilities,talentsandexperienceareappliedtoopportunitiesastheyariseoraredeveloped
• Working closely with the marketing and communications team to ensure consistent and relevant messaging and presentation of Magellan's capabilities and achievements to the market and stakeholder arena
• Represent Magellan when required at events, conferences and in the media
• Maintainagoodknowledgeofthecompetitorlandscape,productportfolioandtrendsintheUK&I
• Make it easy to do business with Magellan

Signsofsuccess

• Youwillbeknownacrosstheindustryandrecognisedasathoughtleaderwithastrategicviewandmindset
• You will identify early national and regional trends and programmes and align those to or help adapt Magellan’s messaging and engage swiftly to influence requirements in Magellan’s favour
• Youwillbeamotivationalleaderinthebusinessdevelopmentsector,understandingchallengesandworkingproactivelywithdirectreportsandthewiderteamtoovercomeobstacles
• Youwillberecognisedasanexcellentrelationshipbuilder,withanetworkextendingacrossgovernment,regionalauthorities
• Togetherwithbusinessdevelopmentcolleagues,youwillidentifyanddevelopadjacentopportunities
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