Account Leader Scotland

Location/s: Glasgow or Edinburgh, UK
Recruiter contact: David McFall

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the team
Delivery of major infrastructure projects is at the core of Mott MacDonald's heritage, collaborating closely with local and national government bodies, and private investment throughout Scotland. The Environment, Nature & Consents Division specialises in successfully achieving consents of nationally significant projects for our clients across all markets. Mott MacDonald has a significant footprint within Scotland, with staff in our offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness and we have a long history for delivering for our clients, including in the energy, defence, health, water and transport markets.

The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring projects are delivered in a sustainable manner for future generations, whilst enhancing our natural environment and communities. Our multi-disciplinary teams of environmental specialists (33 staff) provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through scheme consent, to post-consent and construction support.

As a company with a fully independent ownership, we're proud to be stewards of our business. We embed real leadership behaviours and the business priorities they serve, and believe transparency and openness make us agile and adaptable.

Overview of the role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Scottish Account Lead to develop the growing market across all Sectors, deliver major projects, and develop our business. The Account Lead will bring their unique expertise to lead a consents-led and digitally enabled service while ensuring commercial success. This project and account leadership role is central to securing new work, owning relationships with clients and key partners and provide support to the technical teams for the delivery of current schemes.

It is an exciting time for the UK across all sectors and Mott MacDonald, and we welcome your application for this role to lead development of the business and the delivery of some of the Scotland’s largest and most complex water, defence, transport, health and energy projects.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Strategic client engagement with a diverse range of clients and stakeholders from both the public and private sector
• Business strategy development to capture and plan for a pipeline of major infrastructure schemes
• Demonstrate strong commercial and contractual acumen
• Providing direction to fee estimates and proposals, and general business development activities to secure a pipeline of opportunities
• Maintaining effective communication channels and relationships with project partners and key stakeholders
• Identify potential risks associated with project and programme execution and lead on developing and delivering mitigation strategies
• Support and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring that all team members are aligned with the project goals and are fully equipped to meet their responsibilities
• Undertake mentoring role within projects, developing more junior team members both technical and commercially
• Take ownership of rigorous quality control processes throughout the project lifecycle to meet or exceed the quality standards expected
• Ensuring compliance with relevant conditions, legislation, policies, standards, and best practice.

The role offers an excellent progression route within the business and the opportunity to make a difference in the infrastructure sector, delivering long lasting benefits to the environment and society.

Candidate specification
We are looking for an experienced and driven individual, keen to develop and push the boundaries of major project delivery.

Essential:

• Security Clearance
• Experience of working in a client facing environment and ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders to deliver positive outcomes Collaborative and effective management of, and/or partnership with supply chain partners
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Experience of high-quality major project development and delivery through a major consenting process (technical and commercial)
• Responding to and dealing with any programme and relationship risks as soon as they are identified
• Knowledge of the water, transport, health, defence and energy market in Scotland
• Ability to build a strong network of relationships and positive connections within and external to the organisation
• Experience working in diverse multi-disciplined teams and leading high performing teams
• Well organised with strong planning and management skills, with ability to produce high quality deliverables and manage budgets and programmes Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Qualified in a related technical subject (Minimum of a Bachelor's degree essential). 

Desirable:

• Experience of major project delivery in the UK
• Knowledge of the water, transport, health, defence and energy market in Scotland
• Leadership role in securing a development consent order (DCO) or major planning applications
• Chartered with a professional institution (e.g., CIWEM, IEMA, APM) or equivalent level
• Team leadership

If you meet 70% or more of what we're looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn't know we need. 

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.