Investment Planning Experts; Infrastructure

Investment Planning Experts (Infrastructure Sector)

Are you a brilliant asset manager who is passionate about the future of the infrastructure sector and can help guide our clients on developing investment plans, using the latest tools, systems and data insights?

On the back of continued success across our infrastructure practice, we are looking for talented people to join our growing Asset Management team. We work very closely with all our clients, build strong interpersonal relationships and pride ourselves on our ability to ‘walk the talk’. Therefore, we are particularly interested in those who have practical ‘hands‑on’ experience with infrastructure assets.

• Development of capital and operational investment plans (capex and opex plans – ‘totex plans’)
• Transition of an investment plan into portfolios and programmes of work for delivery
• Implementation and adoption of systems and tools to support investment planning & management
• Delivery of digital asset management transformation and change programmes

While successful candidates will have a good technical understanding of their field, deep specialism is not the only facet of PA consultants; we also want ingenious people who can turn highly technical detail into simple concepts and communicate this clearly to anyone from boardroom to the operation. Our consultants should be able to adapt their style to work effectively with clients and inspire confidence.

We’re looking for someone with these attributes:

• Self‑motivation and ability to manage their own workload effectively
• Creative and open‑minded, enjoying learning and trying new ways of doing things
• Strong communication, presentation creation, delivery and document writing skills
• A great team member in multi‑discipline teams

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Business Processes

• Strategic Planning –
  essential
  : can create alignment between capital and operational investment plans and organisational, economic, and sustainability goals. This involves identifying long‑term infrastructure investment needs, evaluating costs / benefits of potential investment pathways, and quantifying project / programme contributions to achieving those long‑term goals.
• Investment Planning –
  essential
  : understands the processes for capturing investment demand, developing a consistent set of metrics to quantify cost / risk / benefit, and trading‑off constraints of the organisation (cost, resource, strategic goals) to develop an agreeable and actionable investment plan in the medium term. Requires engineering and financial literacy and communication with stakeholders from across an infrastructure organisation.
• Investment Management –
  desirable
  : can take an investment plan approved by the leadership team and planning teams into the next stage of the asset lifecycle – work delivery processes. Understands Portfolio Management practices and principles, and the further optimisation of the investment plan that may be required to enable successful delivery (delivery, supply chain, locational, seasonal constraints etc.).
• Business Planning –
  desirable
  : experience in supporting Price Reviews and business planning processes with knowledge and understanding of regulatory framework and future trends. Ability to translate this into identifying investment demands on the infrastructure to ensure long‑term sustainability of the asset base.
• Delivery Planning –
  desirable
  : would be to understand the development of asset management strategies and plans that take a business plan into a business delivery plan. It would be desirable to have experience in the use of systems to support these processes (asset investment planning tools, programme management systems etc.).

Digital Tools & Systems

• Digital Implementation & Adoption –
  essential
  : first‑hand experience specifying, designing and implementing a digital tool and / or enterprise system (examples listed below). Understands the basics of Business Analysis, Requirements Management, Testing,…