Practice Director, AtkinsRéalis
Data, AI & Technology Solutions
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World-class engineering services and nuclear organisation
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World-class engineering services and nuclear organisation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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 new a new practice with curiosity, kindness, and purpose
- Excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Degree-level or equivalent professional qualification
- Recognized for delivering environmental, economic, or social value and outcomes
- Proven experience in a related leadership role with a reputation for technical excellence and high-quality delivery in relevant disciplines
- Commercially and business astute with a track record of identifying value creation opportunities
- Supportive mentor with a passion for staff development and team engagement
- Proven track record in driving health and safety culture and performance
- Effective network across clients, business partners, and stakeholders
What the job involves
- Our clients are awash with data and technology products. Their challenge is how to integrate and utilise technology products to unlock the value from that data. This is where you come in
- Our Data, AI & Technology Solutions Practice helps clients to design, build, bring into service and operate user-centric solutions that ingest, maintain and translate high quality data. It works alongside an adjacent Consulting Practice that helps clients transform their enterprise architecture and business processes to embed data-driven insight into their operations
- The Practice Director is responsible for people and capability growth, operational and delivery excellence, client engagement and team leadership. This role is pivotal in shaping and growing the Practice, by driving a strong approach to business development that stretches our services and capabilities for the benefit of our clients and our shareholders. It is an outward facing role
- Lead a technically excellent and agile practice, responsive to evolving business needs
- Provide strategic leadership to a team currently ~200 staff across multiple office locations
- Collaborate with the Market Directors to foster cross-market and cross-divisional alignment and resource planning
- Ensure business activities align with the Business Management System (BMS) and maintain acceptable risk levels
- Lead the capability planning aligned to the practice, driving value through resource strategies including use of our Global Technology Centre in India and contingent workforce
- Working collaboratively across the wider business to establish effective shared horizontal functions for capability investment, technical assurance, training and early careers, etc
- Drive technical best practices, knowledge sharing and process standardisation
- Ensure the practice’s skills and capacity align with target market needs through targeted recruitment and staff development, and engaging external alliance partners or contingent workers
- Maximise delivery of work through the Global Technology Centre in India
- Line manager capability team leaders and others; and support their personal development
- Motivate and develop managers and team members, ensuring they are challenged, stretched, and supported with clear succession plans
- Promote a collaborative and inclusive culture across the practice and with the wider business
- Manage practice group performance to meet or exceed productivity (utilisation) targets and maintain low break-even rates
- Liaise with Market Directors to forecast resource demand and align with business resource managers
- Ensure efficient delivery of business-as-usual (BAU) bids and provide technical experts for strategic pursuits
- Create and deliver innovative service offerings for clients through our market teams, support the pursuit of additional, repeat, and follow-on work from clients
- Lead or contribute to cross-practice initiatives in collaboration with the wider business
- Category Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Financial - Practice annual revenue - Practice group breakeven reduction - Practice utilisation at or better than budget - GTC Revenue against budget
- Growth - Number of successful new markets or services created from the practice - Headcount growth in line with budget & LRP
- Client - Revenue and margin targets for Practice area technical sales - Client satisfaction for projects supported by practice (Net Promoter score ≥ 40)
- People - Employee engagement score ≥ 80% - Leadership succession plans in place - Diversity and inclusion targets met - Retention rate - Staff development plans & performance targets in place
- Operational - Project delivery on time and budget (≥ 90%) - Health & Safety incident rate and near miss reporting at or above company targets - Digital transformation milestones achieved - Increase the commercial acumen of project managers within the practice as measures through systems such as COMEA
- Innovation & Excellence - Value creation through technical excellence strategy
Our take
Connected energy systems and infrastructure require connected companies, and AtkinsRéalis is the result of a web of businesses integrating into one large engineering and nuclear services enterprise. With companies under its umbrella dating back to 1911, it’s a major player in the energy services and consulting space.
Covering the whole lifecycle of energy assets, AtkinsRéalis is hired to consult and advise on energy and infrastructure projects, building the tech and data surrounding its clients' projects. Services include intelligent networks & cybersecurity, project and construction management, decommissioning and environmental services.
Having been acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, AtkinsRéalis is one of the most trusted voices in the energy and infrastructure sector, and its global client base means it’s only set to continue on an impressive growth trajectory.
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Company
Company HQ
Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal, QC
Leadership
Ian Edwards
(President & CEO)Previously the President & CEO of SNC Lavalin, Managing Director of Leighton Asia, Division Director of Gammon Construction and studied Civil Engineering at the University of Lancashire.
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