Practice Director - Strategic Advisory

Overview

Our Advisory Practice provides strategic, technical and commercial advice to public and private sector clients across the globe. We operate across multiple sectors, through all stages of the project lifecycle. With ambitious plans for growth, we are looking to expand our team with talented and passionate professionals with the drive needed to support diversification across multiple sectors.

We are seeking a Practice Director (Strategic Advisory) to report directly to the Complex Projects Advisory Practice Director.

You will join a team working on some of the largest and most complex programmes in the UK and abroad, supporting sectors such as Nuclear, Aviation, Defence, Water, Transportation, Power, and Renewables.

Our new Complex Projects - Strategic Advisory team works as a partner to our clients to define outcomes and policy for their organisation and create investible cases for public funders and private investors.

This is a senior leadership role for an experienced professional who can drive business growth, lead a dynamic high performing team, and deliver strategic advice at the highest levels of client organisations.

By joining our Complex Projects Advisory team, you will be part of a genuinely collaborative environment where everyone is supported to maximise their talents. We believe in recognising everyone’s contributions equally while delivering excellence together.

You will be responsible for sourcing, winning, leading and delivering commissions from clients across the globe in the advisory sector.

• Build a strong and varied pipeline of work through active management of client relationships.
• Sell services from across Atkins
  
  Réalis and leverage reputation as a specialist in the field.
• Initiate, develop, and close advisory opportunities with Transport and adjacent sector clients.
• Support the wider Advisory practice via client engagement and proposal development.
• Represent Atkins
  
  Réalis at client meetings, industry events, and conferences, enhancing the company’s reputation as a leader in providing strategic advisory for the world’s most complex projects.

• Be accountable for delivering business performance and making strong commercial and operational decisions.
• Shape the advisory offer to deliver growth in line with our Vision 2035.
• Develop and mentor team members in the delivery of advisory services across business case, feasibility studies, whole system strategy and investment advisory.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams across business units, fostering relationships that promote knowledge sharing and support for client delivery and growth.
• Ensure the Practice’s skills and capacity align with market needs through targeted recruitment and staff development, and strong partnerships with the supply chain.
• Accountability for the delivery of projects across the Strategic Advisory Practice, ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with relevant governance and best practice guidelines.

• Presence and reputation in the infrastructure sector with extensive client, partner and stakeholder networks
• Proven ability to originate opportunities, win work, and deliver work at senior levels in an advisory environment, to support clients in transport, energy, defence and water sectors, both in the UK and abroad.
• Degree-level or equivalent professional qualification.
• Dynamic and inspirational leader with a proven ability to align, motivate, and develop high-performing teams.
• Calm under pressure, self-driven, and adaptable, with strong interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders in the most senior levels of our client organisations, including in government and private sector
• Supportive mentor committed to talent growth and continuous improvement.
• Customer‑centric with a collaborative, culturally aware approach and ability to build strong relationships.
• Passionate about shaping a new Practice with a flexible open approach, ready to grasp opportunities and deal with uncertainty
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven experience in a related leadership role…