Managing Director - Water and Environment

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Location/s: UK-wide

Recruiter contact: David McFall

Closing Date - 22/10/2025

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Overview Of The Role

The EUNA Region (EUNA) is recruiting a new Managing Director (Unit General Manager internally) for our Water and Environment (WNE) Unit to provide leadership and strategic direction for WNE across the EUNA region.

The UGM role will report to the Regional General Manager (RGM) and will be expected to deliver and embed all Group, Regional and Market Strategies within their Units. They will be responsible for establishing a sound knowledge of the market environment in which they operate, building relationships with key clients, winning and delivery of projects and the leadership of their teams.

The UGM’s will be a member of the EUNA Executive Team and will be expected to act as an ambassador and voice for Mott MacDonald within the EUNA Region, articulating and representing the brand, vision and value proposition.

Key Responsibilities And Duties Include

Strategy & Operations

• Provide strategic guidance and direction to ensure the Unit’s ambition aligns to and contributes to the group and regional strategies
• Working collaboratively with key stakeholders, to develop and communicate unit business plans, strategic objectives and budgets
• Develop and lead Mott MacDonald’s win and do operations within the appointed Unit
• Grow and nurture key external relationships and build and maintain strong networks with clients, business partners and competitors, driving joint initiatives where appropriate and use these networks to influence and impact the growth and direction of the business
• Work collaboratively with other Units, Regions and Markets, acting as an exemplar role model and ambassador for Mott MacDonald, articulating and representing the brand, ambition and value proposition internally and externally
• Using an in-depth understanding and knowledge, investigate, analyse and manage risks, market opportunities, and the competitive landscape, to prepare and deliver Unit strategic plans and feed into both Regional and Market Plans
• Support Divisional General Managers/Portfolio Leads to win and deliver their projects and programmes of work ensuring that our STEP processes and procedures are followed and BMS requirements fulfilled
• Act as a role model for Health, Safety and Wellbeing for the Unit
• Regularly review performance and monitor progress of Unit and Divisional/Portfolio plans, and stated objectives, against monthly Key Performance Indictors
• Ensure the Unit achieves its objectives and optimises financial performance and operational productivity by embracing innovation, digital applications and building capability in GDS
• Be accountable for overall achievement of Unit budgets, striving for continual improvement across Divisions/Portfolios in project performance through the utilisation of sound financial management principles and a continual review of appropriate management information
  
  

• Leadership of the Divisional General Managers/ Portfolio Leads within the Unit
• Leadership of all enabling functions and activities within the unit including HR, Commercial, Business Development, Win, Technical Excellence, Digital & Operational Management
• Help to build an environment where people are motivated, encouraged and empowered to be at their very best
• Encourage inclusion and diversity across the portfolio and wider unit
• Support career development and help to create opportunities for our people through performance management, talent management and succession planning
• Demonstrate exemplar leadership in maintaining the Ethical standards and values of Mott MacDonald within the Unit, ensuring a zero tolerance of unacceptable behaviours
  
  

• Be part of the EUNA Executive Team, support in the leadership of the Region and provide challenge to drive continuous improvement. Champion delivery of the Region objectives and support other members of the Regional Executive
• Build key relationship across the region and the group to support the growth of the Unit and Region
  
  

• Experience of managing teams and/or operational or functional business areas
• Strategic Leaders with good knowledge of relevant markets and key client
• Excellent Leadership skills able to motivate, engage and inspire others
• Effective Team Builder able to bring together individuals to deliver an exceptional service to our clients
• Exceptional collaborator able to work effectively with others
• Great communicator able to listen to, support and direct the Unit
  
  

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
  
  

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
  
  

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
  
  

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
  
  

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
  
  

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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