Buro Happold
Manager - Digital Strategy & Transformation
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Manager - Digital Strategy & Transformation
Manager – Digital Advisory Team
Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? So do we. Join Buro Happold as a Manager in our Digital Advisory team and create transformative outcomes for people, planet, and places.
About the Role
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you’ll work on to the clients we serve, from career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where everyone contributes to a more equitable world, to our reputation and relationships. Every step of your Buro Happold career will be anything but ordinary.
Your next role in Digital Advisory focuses on delivering strategy-led digital, data, and organisational transformation, helping clients enhance operational performance and achieve financial, environmental, and social outcomes across people, planet, and places.
Our projects range from pioneering smart city technologies to net-zero campus strategies, from football club revenue enhancements to secure data management solutions. Each project requires engineering and real-world asset expertise, combining technology with the triple-bottom-line approach that sets us apart.
The Strategy & Transformation team works across digital strategy, operational capability design, and data-driven decision-making, collaborating with systems, solutions, and analytics specialists globally. Building on our success—including the UK team tripling in size over the last two years—we’re seeking a Manager to expand our project leadership capacity, particularly in smart and connected urban development and decarbonisation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage workstreams on digital strategies, digital transformation, and client-driven outcomes for some of the world’s most iconic projects—owning client relationships, team performance, and wellbeing.
- Develop and deliver client-aligned workstreams per proposal agreements.
- Support and mentor project and workstream teams to meet objectives.
- Grow business development for digital/ead data transformation projects by expanding on existing client engagements.
- Drive continuous improvement—evaluating methodologies, tools, templates, and training.
- Mentor and coach team members to foster professional growth.
- Act as the first line of assurance for project deliverables.
Essential & Desirable Qualifications
We need:
✔ Experience in digital strategy, transformation, or system integration within smart places and the built environment.
✔ Proven leadership in management consulting contexts, with strong stakeholder management and client relationship skills.
✔ Robust analytical and problem-solving abilities—structuring complex issues into clear, actionable recommendations.
✔ Enthusiasm for technology in urban environments, with expertise ranging from real estate/energy utilities to smart cities, mobility, or sport venues.
✔ Commercial mindsets—valuable experience in business cases, value definitions, and securing client outcomes.
✔ Bid-writing experience—ability to engage with both private-sector clients and public sector clients.
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✔ Fluency in Excel and PowerPoint.
✅ Aids desirability if you have: A professional qualification (digital, business, CA, ACA, MBA).
Perks & Benefits
- Attractive package: car allowance, private medical insurance, life assurance, and income protection.
- Generous leave: 25 days/year (excl. bank hols) + flexible holiday arrangements.
- Pension scheme: 10% matched employer contribution.
- Flexible benefits: cycle scheme, dental/optical insurance, travel insurance, season ticket loans, exclusive corporate discounts.
- Family-friendly policies: enhanced parenthood leave.
- Work-life balance: 3pm finish on the last Friday each month.
- Investment in your career: structured L&D with two professional body memberships.
- Wellbeing support: employee assistance programme, team activities, and outreach initiatives (e.g., Young Employees Forum, mentoring).
Working at Buro Happold: A Place for Everyone
We recognise that flexible work styles drive success and balance*, as do diverse perspectives.
Our portfolio thrives on varied identities, backgrounds, and experiences—a collaborative force for innovation.
Recognizing that industry representation isn’t fair, we particularly welcome marginalized voices. We believe that unmasking differences allows us to design the most impactful, elegant solutions.
Can we make your application process more accessible? Contact recruitment@burohappold.com to discuss any adjustments.
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