Buro Happold is recruiting an Operations Manager to support the Operational Strategy of one of our UK discipline groups and acting as deputy on operational issues on behalf of the Discipline Lead.
This role will have a high degree of autonomy and expectation to think proactively in order to successfully support the Discipline Unit Lead and delivery teams in ensuring operational requirements of the Discipline Unit's strategy are delivered, whilst coordinating and leading on performance issues with the Discipline Directors.
Based from either our Bath or London office, this role will engage with the Cities Discipline Leadership across the UK to ensure the business reacts and responds to any new support requests/requirements, whilst working with the UKCOO to deliver the transformation of the business support services required to deliver the Discipline's strategy.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it'll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role:
Be part of an exceptional team that embraces technically demanding projects and challenges. Be at the forefront of changes in the industry such as reducing embodied carbon and modern methods of infrastructure design.
Key Duties:
* Performance management – working with data and reporting provided by finance and central operations, to assess discipline performance against budget targets and provide necessary reports;
* Finance – overseeing audits of project accounts with project directors and discipline teams, identifying, evaluating, mitigating, and escalating risk where appropriate;
* Forecasting - working with Discipline Leaders to drive comprehensive and accurate reporting of the group position including Backlog & Pipeline;
* Strategy – supporting the Leader for the Cities Group in developing the operational responses to the discipline strategy, and ensuring all budget and financial issues are assessed and resolved;
* Best practice – playing a pivotal role in rolling out operational and project best practice guidance;
* Change Management – responsibility for supporting on delivering changes to the way in which Cities runs and sizes its teams;
* Communication - leading the operational agenda with the Cities Group, setting out an agenda and meeting schedule that looks to support the teams on their key issues in achieving their performance targets, with support from the Business Service teams.
Your Skills and Experience:
* The person should have an analytical mindset.
* Ideally, the person should be an advocate of change and seek to drive efficiency through an understanding of how our projects and disciplines are run and operated through data analysis as opposed to changing the way projects and disciplines are run to support business services.
* Methodical and logical, the individual should be capable of interrogating financial, operational and project related data sets and be able to converse with both project teams and internal teams to link the two up as effectively as possible.
* It is anticipated the individual will understand some of the shortcomings of our systems, disciplines and processes and look to implement systems and processes that will ultimately help our disciplines win more work and deliver it more profitably from cradle to grave (bid to project completion). This ultimately is the metric by which the success of this role will be measured.
* The individual may wish to retain some technical, project or staff leadership – this can be discussed and worked through on a case-by-case basis.
What we offer:
* Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
* Hybrid working arrangements.
* Private Medical Health (family cover).
* Company Pension Scheme.
* Life Assurance.
* Income Protection.
* Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
* Early leaving at the end of the month - Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other's differences is key, we want employees to feel they don't have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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