Associate Director - Asset Management Advisory - Water

Job Description

Our client, a large, global and well-known and consulting firm, is seeking to hire a water focussed Associate Director, with outstanding asset management, asset health and investment planning skills, gained from the water industry and/or management consultancy experience. You should have an excellent industry network and be seen as an expert within the asset management field.

This team leads exciting projects across both public and private sectors principally focused on major capital and infrastructure portfolios in Water, Energy, Transport, Defence, Oil and Gas, Property and Health. This is a fast-growing area offering many opportunities, building upon a global capability in Asset Management where they provide:

• Asset Strategy and Transformation, including operating model design and transformation of asset management functions.
• Asset Health and Performance including investment planning, efficiency improvements in capital and operating expenditure, as well as asset resilience, asset data, investment business cases and benchmarking.
• Digital asset management including asset data, analytics, smart technology, enterprise solutions and financial modelling.
• Investor assurance of asset performance and transaction due diligence support.

The work is varied, fast-paced, often high-profile and rewarding. Our client is working with leaders in the public sector and industry partners on issues including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), resilience of the UK’s utilities sector in the face of climate change and the future structure of the rail sector. They are looking for people with a passion for identifying, creating and delivering transformative solutions which help their public and private clients to deliver some of the largest and most complex infrastructure programmes in the UK, while maintaining delivery of key business and customer outcomes.

The Role

This role is critical in leading client workstreams, supporting business development and helping our team to grow and develop. Key areas you will contribute to the team include:

• Delivering large, complex client engagements, operating at board level and the level below.
• Management of teams whilst on client engagements and broader teams across the business.
• Focusing the deployment of asset management capability on client engagement and within the Firm.
• Managing the use and development of Asset Management tools and methodologies across the team and within client engagements.
• Engaging with global teams, including the Global Asset Management community to leverage resources and capabilities, developing robust approaches to the supporting service lines.
• Managing the day-to-day relationship with key client contacts, ensuring service is responsive to their needs.
• Managing client engagement teams and delivery of work to clients, ensuring the production of high-quality deliverables.
• Financial management, ensuring timely raising of notes and assisting in the recovery of fees, and keeping clients informed of costs and time incurred on an appropriately regular basis.
• Supporting the development of the team's brand with thought leadership and speaking engagements.

The Person

The individual much be proactive, able to work at pace and provide practical solutions that deliver value to clients. The individual must have the ability to deal with ambiguity and to put in place frameworks to structure their thinking and communicate effectively to stakeholders. A track record of delivering high quality outputs and an extensive industry network is essential.

Essential Requirements:

• Demonstrate high levels of drive, ambition and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Be good team players who work with colleagues and has experience leading teams in a collaborative and inclusive way.
• Be comfortable handling ambiguity and responding to changing client demands.
• Experience engaging with Board-level representatives on strategic asset management topics.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of asset management challenges with a focus on Power & Utilities and Water.
• A good understanding of asset management principles and how to apply them to address business challenges.
• Assessing and understanding risks at both a business and an asset portfolio level.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.

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