Requisition ID: 51381

Job Category:Infrastructure

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we understand that challenges are changing rapidly in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Are you passionate about making a positive difference for people, places and economies? Do you want to work with some of the best economists, geographers, strategists and urban regeneration consultants in the UK and internationally? Do you want to join an agile and fast-growing business?

Hatch is recruiting Associate Directors and Senior Consultants to join our Urban Solutions team who are based in Manchester and London. Your skills and experience will have an important part to play in the interesting and diverse consultancy projects we deliver. Our innovative research covers a broad range of projects and sectors including employment, industrial sectors, skills, innovation, infrastructure, energy, land and property, culture, leisure and tourism.

Urban Solutions is the economics, urban planning and real estate strategy arm of Hatch, delivering strategic economic development services to public and private clients. In the UK our Urban Solutions team works closely with our Environmental and Advisory groups, and the successful candidates will be encouraged to work on projects in these other divisions as well as Urban Solutions. You can find out more about us and our work at hatch.com/urbansolutions and on our LinkedIn page.

Our consultants and analysts support our clients by:

• Defining the future : We provide forward thinking about city futures and place-making, working on strategies, visions, investment and delivery plans.
• Securing investment: We support our clients to secure investment in projects by preparing business cases and economic appraisals.
• Assessing impact : We enable our clients understand their impacts through social value and economic impact assessments, strategies to maximise the economic and social benefits they deliver, and evidence that helps make their case.
• Establishing what works : We identify lessons to improve performance and increase impacts through the evaluation of programmes, projects and organisations.

Hatch is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. Our roots extend back more than a hundred years, and our experience spans over 150 countries around the world in the energy, metals, infrastructure, digital, and investments market sectors. We are a forward-thinking, multi-disciplinary business with a global network of 9,000 professionals combining vast technical and business acumen.

Hatch has a strong presence across the UK, and a pool of leading technical experts across the globe. The skills and expertise of Hatch are available to enable our clients to solve the challenges they face and help them make better, more informed decisions. We are building a team of people that reflects the world in which we operate and which draws on the broadest range of talents and insights. We have a strong commitment to long-term relationships and lasting success for our clients, and to generating positive change in the places where we work.
The Roles We are seeking Associate Directors and Senior Consultants with 4-8 years’ experience, ideally in a consultancy, project management and/or research environment. We are currently looking in particular for people with experience of developing business cases and business case appraisal, and experience in delivering project and programme evaluation. You may be a specialist in one or both of these areas, and we welcome applications from candidates who also have a broader interest in economic and social research consultancy. You will have the ability to deliver and manage consultancy projects, together with strong numeric and analytical skills. You may have a first degree and possibly a post-graduate qualification in economics, human geography, urban regeneration planning, or related subject areas including social research and public policy. We value people who are:

• Keen to learn and develop new skills
• Eager to share insights
• Entrepreneurial in their outlook
• Inquisitive about how places and their economies work
• Well-versed in quantitative and qualitative research
• Committed to helping colleagues develop their skills and experience

Associate Directors Key responsibilities for the Associate Director role include:

• Leading project delivery: including developing the analysis of research and data, overseeing the delivery of project outputs, leading client presentations
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis: Demonstrating a strong understanding of the analytical tools for consultancy projects and leading project teams in applying them
• Business development and work winning: Contributing to the development of new clients and business, developing relationship[s with our clients, relationships, promoting the business
• Innovation: Playing a leading role alongside Directors in developing the knowledge and techniques the business uses and develops, both in projects and in a general context
• Management: Supporting the management of the business working with the leadership team.

Senior Consultants The main responsibilities of our Senior Consultants include:

• Effective project management: including resource and time management, delegation and team building/management, client relationship management
• Project delivery: including analysis and interpretation of research, leading production of consultancy outputs, contributing to client presentations
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis: Applying skills in at least one of the following areas including economic appraisal, business case development, including green-book techniques, project and programme evaluation
• Business development and work winning: Contributing to the development of proposals, maintaining client relationships, contributing to marketing and business promotion activity
• Innovation: contributing to the knowledge and techniques the business uses and develops, both in projects and in general context

What we offer
We offer a competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, in addition to flexible working arrangements and a path to other unique opportunities due to our employee ownership model. For personal development, we provide a supportive working environment, backed by a network of development and welfare managers. We offer a subsidised flexible benefits package, with benefits you can select from including a private health scheme, gym membership, dental insurance, purchase of annual leave, a cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.

Hatch is committed to equality of opportunity as an employer and service provider, and we recognise that people are our greatest asset. Equality and Diversity are a central part of our culture across the whole organisation. These beliefs are integrated into our recruitment, services, policies and general working and they help us achieve our objectives and meet our clients’ needs. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, especially underrepresented groups. All applicants are treated equally and selected on the basis of individual merit and ability to meet the requirements of the business.

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We are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected status. If you have any special needs requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.

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