Arup
UK Social Value Delivery Lead
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UK Social Value Delivery Leader – London
About Arup
Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 80 years, shaping a better world through design, planning, engineering, and technical consultancy.
We stand out as independent specialists, delivering noise professional services while embedding social value as a core component of procurement, decision-making, and client outcomes. The Social Value Act requires organisations to measure impact credibly. In this role, you’ll drive a commercially robust, operationally effective approach aligned with UK public sector expectations.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking an experienced UK Social Value Delivery Leader to shape and lead Arup’s social value approach across the UK. This is a leadership role for someone who transitions ambition into delivery—crafting regional strategies, fortifying bid processes, creating scalable programmes and partnerships, and refining measurement and evidence frameworks for impact.
You will:
- Lead a centralised hub while working with a distributed network across the firm, collaborating with senior leaders, bid teams, project teams, and external partners.
- Drive influence at a strategic level, bridging social value strategy with client outcomes, community benefit, and business performance.
- Design practical delivery models, ensuring diverse Arup projects meet social value commitments credibly and consistently.
- Develop scalable frameworks for social value winning, reporting, and impact tracking across the UK.
This is a rare opportunity to establish a high-impact social value capability in the built environment sector—timework that strengthens bid quality, enhances delivery consistency, and builds a compelling evidence base.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and refine a clear social value strategy for the UK, aligning it with client procurement expectations and community needs.
- Achieve stronger market position by embedding social value in every bid decision.
- Create transferable delivery models that can be scaled across Arup’s international projects.
- Strengthen evidence-based reporting on social value impact at both regional and UK-wide levels.
- Foster collaboration between bid, project, and commercial teams to ensure consistent social value implementation.
- Situate social value as a commercially competitive differentiator while advancing genuine community outcomes.
- Adopt a holistic and measurable approach: ensure social value avoids being an exercise in compliance, but becomes a strategic asset people seek out in procurement.
Requirements
Essential Skills
- Education: A university degree (preferably a master’s-level or equivalent) in a relevant field such as:
- Sustainable development
- Economics
- Social sciences
- Planning
- Senior Leadership Experience:
- Proven track record of leading social value or ESG programmes in a large, complex organisation.
- Practical knowledge of the UK public procurement process, including Social Value Act requirements, scoring models, and reporting frameworks.
- Ability to shape bids strategically, influence decision-makers, and navigate complex stakeholder dynamics.
- Methodological Expertise:
- Experience designing practical frameworks, measurement tools, and reporting processes for social value.
- Stakeholder and Influence Skills:
- Proven ability to work across distributed teams and influence at senior management levels.
- Experience in the built environment, infrastructure, or professional services sector (desirable).
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Why Join Arup?
At Arup, we foster diverse perspectives to create extraordinary work. We’re focused on building meaningful careers, delivering impact, and shaping a better world.
- Challenging and meaningful work: gel your expertise into projects that deliver real, transformative change while aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Effective total reward: Compensating fairness and contribution, complemented by membership privileges including:
- Private medical insurance, life and accident cover
- Retirement planning
- Flexible benefits (to support health, wellbeing, and personal needs)
- Profit Share, enabling shared ownership in the firm’s success
- Full Belonging: A trust-owned business that empowers collaboration, belonging, and individually tailored career growth. We enable you to:
- Develop professionally learning across diverse projects.
- Make an Impact beyond client deliverables—enslaving social purpose to every initiative.
We are an equal opportunity employer advocating for a diverse, inclusive culture without compromise. Whether your background lies in race, ethnicity, gender, disability, neurotype, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status—your unique viewpoint is welcomed and supported.
How to Apply
- To learn more about our recruitment process, visit: Arup Careers.
- Closing date: Friday, 10 July 2026. For early applications or questions, e-mail: Karin Spies.
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