Discipline Resilience & Capability Development

• Strengthen resilience within the Digital Delivery discipline by sharing subject matter leadership
• Mentor and support colleagues across UK&I, Business Lines UK & International, and EDC
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of internal information management guidance, templates, and best practice.

Stakeholder Engagement & Professional Credibility

• Build trusted relationships with project managers, engineers, clients, and external stakeholders, helping articulate the value of digital delivery and information management
• Represent COWI credibly in technical and professional discussions where appropriate, supporting the organisation’s reputation
• Promote a collaborative, pragmatic, and delivery-focused culture aligned with COWI’s values.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for your team and supporting them in taking ownership of their work. You always delegate responsibility and ensure an open and safe dialogue, and you coach your people to achieve their aspirations through constructive, fact-based feedback. Attracting and nurturing a diverse group of high-potential team members is at the top of your agenda, as is creating an inclusive, caring and trusting culture in your team.

On top of that, you’ll have:

Essential

• Significant experience in information management and digital delivery leadership within complex, multidisciplinary project environments
• Demonstrable expertise in the ISO 19650 framework and its practical application across procurement, mobilisation, delivery, and assurance stages
• Proven ability to influence outcomes across projects, frameworks, and teams
• Strong understanding of governance, assurance, and quality management, with the ability to balance consistency and flexibility
• Experience contributing to bids, frameworks, or major project mobilisation from an information management perspective
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the credibility to engage confidently with senior stakeholders
• A collaborative leadership style, with a clear commitment to mentoring, capability development, and team resilience

Highly Desirable

• Professional chartership and/or fellowship within a relevant institution (ICE/IET)
• Experience supporting or contributing to industry standards, guidance, or professional communities
• Familiarity with common data environments and digital delivery platforms used on major UK&I and international projects
• Experience aligning information management approaches with wider quality, collaboration, and information security frameworks
• A strong interest in continuous improvement, innovation, and raising the standard of digital delivery practice

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include:

• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric vehicle lease
• Corporate gym membership
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM.

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.