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Digital Energy Market Lead
Senior Digital Energy Market Lead – UK Role
At Arup
Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have shaped our legacy for over 80 years. We’re seeking a Senior Digital Energy Market Lead to accelerate our growth in the UK, fostering strategic relationships with senior stakeholders across Transmission & Distribution, Molecular Solutions, and Renewables.
The Opportunity
A strategic leadership role for a seasoned consultant who blends deep energy sector expertise, digital transformation excellence, and commercial drive with Arup’s technical authority, multidisciplinary insight, and unwavering values.
Ideal for partners or senior directors from consulting or advisory firms seeking to transition beyond standard transformation consulting. This opportunity allows you to build a unique advisory practice underpinned by world-class engineering, design, digital, and sustainability capabilities.
We’re searching for a highly motivated, commercially savvy, and technically astute leader with experience in digital advisory and strong external networks—someone who can develop, pitch, and deliver digital energy solutions from strategy to commercialisation.
You’ll take accountability and ownership for curating digital advisory services, leading projects from inception to hand-off, and cultivating both internal and external client relationships to secure pipeline growth.
This hybrid role balances market leadership with project delivery, reporting to the Global Digital Energy Leader (Simon Evans) and embedded within Arup’s National Digital Services Portfolio—a gold standard team supporting clients through digital evolution.
Join a collaborative culture where innovation meets accountability: a global practice with local impact, owned by ambitious professionals who shape a better world through their work.
The Role in Detail
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with clients to investigate, develop, and drive digital transformation through Arup’s technical, design, and engineering expertise—leveraging data, IoT, AI, and systems analytics.
- Foster engagement with strategic clients, directing high-quality advisory work, investment funding, and operational deployment.
- Expand Arup’s digital energy footprint through strategic market engagement, innovative proposals, and repeat business acquisition.
- Solve whole-life challenges for clients, including system optimisation, project development, and customer engagement strategies.
- Collaborate with Arup’s electricity networks team, MSC (Market & Systems Change) division, and virtual digital energy community to align expertise and refine techno-commercial propositions.
- Stay connected—nationally and globally—with digitalisation projects, standards, thought leadership, and regulatory development.
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About the Candidate
Critical Attributes
- Senior-level leadership—experience as a consultant, Director, Partner, or equivalent, demonstrated repeat project delivery success, and a strong ability to lead digital energy strategies with confidence.
- Sector-specific insight: Technical and commercial acumen in energy markets, especially to do with digitalisation, AI, data insights, and emerging tech applied to renewable and conventional energy systems.
- Relationship capital: Experience working with executives, CDOs, CIOs, and energy professionals—building trust and credibility through technical depth and business understanding.
- Commercial and market acumen: Ability to pitch, win, and deliver high-value advisory projects while balancing strategic focus against operational realism.
Essential Skills & Knowledge
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Proven track record in digital energy consulting projects—ideally spanning data strategies, digital engineering, and IoT/simulation-based optimisation.
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Managed teams or large projects that showcased digital advisory outcomes, operational impact, and client trust.
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Depth of knowledge about energy system data, real-time analytics, AI and emerging tech, reconciling technical potential with realistic business adoption.
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Industry influence: Participation in leading digital energy agendas, advisory boards, or standards development—preferably with vendor and stakeholder connections.
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Familiarity with UK/EU/Global energy transitions, subsystems, and policy frameworks crucial to formulation.
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Professional experience: Ideal candidates will have all case duties previously achieved within 12-24 months of candidacy decision.
What We Offer
Your success, no less than ours. A diverse upward impact package, where:
- Competitive compensation, growth opportunities, and community profit-sharing—a tangible reflection of shared commitment and collective progress.
- A portfolio of health, well-being, and personal benefit schemes, including:
- Private medical insurance, life assurance, accident insurance, and income protection
- Flexible family support and childcare funding, mental health coaching, financial wellbeing programmes
- Learn through action: Access to world-class training, thirst-inducing opportunities, and mentorship collaboration.
- A commercial enterprise where ownership matters—you shape your project journey, and our ethos blesses both quality and human worth.
Arup’s collaborative ownership model and renewable revenue model empower us. Together, we stand as a force for social good, connected to purpose through meaningful contribution.
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Our Working and Values Culture
A bias towards free thinking, curiosity, and professional dignity—we foster a thriving culture where diverse perspectives give rise to collective excellence. Arup:
- Is an EOE, committed to diversity—socioeconomic, gender identity, neurodiversity, disability, career progression, and ethical Championing.
- Guides action through 5 sought-after values:
- Together – collaboration as the harmony of ideas, a culture where campers believe big opinions start from listening even bigger.
- Open – sharing is modest but potent: challenge infighting, employ talent She sells at their best together.
- On Purpose – a work that significantly matters, why our effort echoes benefit.
- Adapt and Improve – realizing our best may need re-building and overcoming shifting trends.
- Alone and Together – At some stage,solitude becomes the gamebreaker, familiarizing competence prior to reaching for innovative partnerships.
Strategic alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals further determines our organisation’s ethos.
Explore what working with Arup looks like and our commitment here.
Making our recruitment and workspace accessible to all candidates: If we can assist you, please contact Marek Mazurowski, Accessibility Coordinator: marek.mazurowski@arup.com.
Requirements &Notes
- Deploy statutory need: Ability to work in the UK from the point of application, confirmed via legal right-to-work documentation if reviewing an offer shortlist.
- "Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this role."
Join an unexpected fact: Weekly e.g.
- Technical impact alongside N5 successes reflecting deep insight with actionable proposals.
- Manager training deepening our edge on digital needs.
- Roling set of client-based case studies as part of exploratory content.
Whether you’re a Magnificent Advocate of digital energy or just keen to join us early, let’s evolve well together
See full application and start experience here at Arup’s opportunity portal.
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