Urban CGI Digital Planning
London and UK-wide | Hybrid working
Full-time contract | Competitive day rate, negotiable by experience and scope
Reporting to: CEO
WHAT WE DO
Urban CGI embeds certainty into the world’s largest infrastructure programmes. Sequences proved before they are built. Approvals won. Behaviours changed.
We work where risks concentrate across tunnelling, heavy civil, transport and major construction. We apply behavioural science, 4D simulation and interactive models to deliver certainty that solves the biggest problems facing infrastructure megaprojects.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a UK Construction Sector Leader to own our construction revenue line and become the trusted adviser to the UK’s largest programmes.
This is a business-critical appointment for someone who has run major projects and can hold a room at Project Director and Managing Director level. You will use relationships you already have to establish Urban CGI as the planning, 4D simulation and behavioural delivery partner of choice on UK major works.
You will own one revenue line and sell every product line through it. You will cross-sell across everything we do, working out where the value sits inside each programme and which of our capabilities releases it. Where nothing we currently sell fits the gap, you will define what should, and build it into a product line we can sell again.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Own the UK construction revenue line and set the client acquisition strategy for the sector
- Build trusted adviser relationships with Project Directors and Managing Directors across major programmes and Tier 1 joint ventures
- Land and grow major programme accounts, taking each from first conversation to a recurring annual commitment
- Scope, position and price complex engagements on the value they release rather than on hours delivered
- Cross-sell every product line through those relationships: 4D planning and phasing, simulation, visual communications, and workforce training. You bring our specialists in behind you and vouch for them
- Find gaps and build product lines into them: spot where programmes are spending badly or carrying risk they cannot see, then define the offer, prove it on a live programme and sell it again
- Own delivery: What reaches the client is yours. You set the standard for the work that goes out under your relationships, you build the delivery capability ahead of the demand you are creating, and protect margins as the line grows.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Project Director or Managing Director level track record. Fifteen years or more in the sector, with delivery leadership on multi-billion pound UK construction or infrastructure programmes.
- A network you can activate now. You know the decision-makers inside the Tier 1 contractors and joint ventures delivering UK major works (Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain, BAM, Laing O’Rourke, Mace, VINCI, Kier), and you know the client-side organisations and consultants around them.
- Peer credibility. Project Directors take your call because you have done their job. You can navigate multi-stakeholder politics and build alignment across genuinely conflicting interests.
- Commercial judgement. You run the sector as a business line, not a sales target. You protect margin as hard as you chase revenue, price and resource work so it is deliverable at a profit, and make informed decisions about where to invest.
- Market knowledge you can convert. You know how these programmes spend and where we can bring value. You see opportunities, judge whether it is worth us building for, and then execute on capturing them.
- At home in a founder-led business. You want real ownership of a revenue line, autonomy over client strategy, and no committee standing between you and a decision.
HOW SUCCESS IS MEASURED
The target is explicit. Land a client at approximately £2M per annum, then scale to four clients at that level within two years, holding four to five trusted adviser relationships with the people who control multi-billion pound programmes.
You will carry a chargeability expectation alongside the revenue line. This is a senior seller-doer role, not a pure business development seat, and there is performance upside tied to hitting the number.
NOT THIS ROLE IF
Your strength is transactional sales, residential schemes, small-scale work or commodity planning services. This is major infrastructure and relationship-led business only.
WHAT WE ARE OFFERING
A revenue line to own, not a seat to fill. Full-time contract, competitive day rate negotiable by experience and scope, with performance upside tied to the growth of the sector. Direct to the CEO.
This is acquisition phase. You are not executing someone else’s plan, you are building the UK construction business for Urban CGI. You identify the programmes, you build the relationships, you close the work, you own the outcome.
Sectors in scope: major construction and capital works across rail, tunnelling, nuclear and defence, water and energy.
READY TO APPLY?
https://www.urbancgi.com/apply1
Code: work the plan
Work Location: Hybrid, London and UK-wide
Employment Type: Full-time contract
Remuneration: Competitive day rate, negotiable by experience and scope
Pay: £300.00-£350.00 per day
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London