Stakeholder Advisor

Murphy is recruiting for a Stakeholder Advisor to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, as part of the AMP8 programme.

• Support stakeholder analysis to ensure stakeholder drivers, requirements and influences are known and taken into account throughout a project
• Support the development of a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for each project, that aligns with the Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, with support from the Project Manager and Stakeholder Manager
• Work closely with the Project Manager, to support all engagement with stakeholders including the client, local authorities, statutory and non-statutory bodies (including environment & technical organisations), industry & business, land & property, communities and other parties to establish strong working relationships
• Be a point of contact for all stakeholders for problem solving and communication between Murphy and clients
• Support any third party consultant engaged by either Murphy or our client to ensure a joined up approach to stakeholder management and/or public relations
• Support the application of all relevant consents and approvals
• Undertake stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder enquiries
• Work collaboratively with other members of the project team, providing briefings and support to technical teams for meetings with stakeholders
• Attend stakeholder meetings with technical team members and ensure feedback of stakeholder responses and requests to technical teams are responded to within agreed timescales
• Ensure an accurate audit trail is maintained for all stakeholder engagement and all contact/activities are recorded on stakeholder database
• Report progress and updates on a weekly basis
• Attend Stakeholder and Customer meetings both internal and external
• Provide input to the development of tenders as required
• Lead projects on the adherence to our Social Value Development Plan by over seeing their initiatives and ensure targets are met;
• With the support of others, identify opportunities to increase the number of employee’s taking volunteer days in cooperation and alignment to client and company targets.

• Experience of working with bids, tenders & contracts in the construction/engineering industry
• Proven track record of building relationships with external and internal stakeholders
• Experience working on water based projects is desirable
• High attention to detail with a right first time ethos
• Motivated, organised and diligent
• Full clean driving license
• Flexibility to travel to multiple site locations with overnight stays

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK