Future Mobility Consultant, London-(BIE0003GO)
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility are key focus areas for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About The Opportunity:
The Jacobs Cities & Places team create thriving places across different scales - from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to individual buildings and all through an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our strengths and develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.
Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, urban designers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients, both nationally and internationally.
The Jacobs Future Mobility Team are working at the cutting edge of vehicle technology and are supporting clients around the globe to plan, create and operate the transport networks of the future. The team have an exciting opportunity to take a role in helping us to deliver and grow our portfolio of work within the electric and future mobility markets. You will primarily work across our UK Local Government contracts whilst supporting other global projects to respond to our clients emerging challenges as they transition to a network of cleaner and smarter mobility that will be enabled and accelerated through the widespread adoption of technology. Our clients in the electric and future mobility market extends to both public and private sector organisations which has allowed our team to develop a strong reputation for innovation and the establishment of an extensive pipeline of transformational projects that will be delivered over the next 24 months.
We are looking for a passionate and solution orientated individual who can be based in our London office although there will be an expectation to travel to client offices in line with project and client requirements.
Some Key Responsibilities:
1. Supporting Jacobs Future Mobility service offering to Local Government clients
2. Promoting and fostering positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders who will allow us to deliver fully integrated solutions for our clients in this market
3. Client facing with a focus on business development, forming positive and trusted relationships that ensure we fully understand our client challenges and needs, designing innovative and bespoke solutions
4. Develop and support thought-leadership through a range of platforms such as conferences, social media and trade press which allows us to introduce new concepts and research to the market
5. Providing robust advice to our clients to ensure innovative technologies are being deployed in a way that supports wider local and sub-regional objectives and provides value for money on investment
Here's What You'll Need:
6. A background in Transport Technology or Smart Cities
7. Experience in some of the following areas: Autonomous, Shared and Electric Mobility, Mobility Hubs, Digital Twining or IoT
8. Understanding of the role data can play in future mobility
9. Experience working with local government stakeholders
10. Ability and experience of looking holistically at the future of mobility and the role of innovation