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UK Social Value Delivery Lead
Senior UK Social Value Delivery Manager – Opportunities
Joining Arup
Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for 80 years, shaping how we build a better world. We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists, offering a broad range of professional services.
Social value has become a critical part of public procurement and client decision-making. Organisations now expect not only strong commitments but credible delivery, consistent measurement, and evidenced impact. This role ensures our approach is commercially strong, operationally robust, and aligned with evolving UK procurement expectations—including the Social Value Act.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced UK Social Value Delivery Leader to shape and lead our social value approach across the UK. This is a senior leadership role, ideal for someone who can:
- Turn ambition into delivery
- Build a clear regional strategy
- Strengthen work-winning efforts
- Create scalable programmes and partnerships
- Improve measurement and impact evidence
You will lead a small central hub while working with a distributed network across the business, collaborating with:
- Senior leaders
- Bid teams
- Project teams
- External partners
Success depends on your ability to:
- Influence at senior level
- Design practical delivery models
- Connect social value strategy to client outcomes, community benefits, and business performance
- Ensure Arup’s diverse projects meet their social value commitments credibly
This is an opportunity to build a distinctive, high-impact social value capability in the built environment and professional services sector, improving:
- Bid quality
- Consistent delivery
- A credible evidence base for impact at project, regional, and UK levels
A rare chance to shape a UK social value regional capability within a business shaping the built environment. With this role, you’ll:
- Work with senior leaders
- Support major pursuits and projects
- Develop a strategy that balances commercial effectiveness and genuine community impact
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If you’re passionate about capability-building, influencing leadership, and turning social value commitments into tangible delivery, we’d love to hear from you.
Culture and Purpose
At Arup, you are part of an extraordinary collective. We thrive on:
- Individuality—we respect, share, and connect diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.
- Meaningful work—doing socially useful work that makes an impact for our colleagues, clients, and communities.
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Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- A degree (or preferably a master’s degree) in a relevant field, such as:
- Sustainable development
- Economics
- Social sciences
- Planning
- Senior experience leading:
- Social value initiatives
- Social impact programmes
- ESG or related areas
- In a complex organisation
- Strong understanding of UK public procurement, including:
- How social value is evaluated, delivered, and reported across the procurement lifecycle
- Experience shaping bids, influencing clients, and collaborating with senior stakeholders in a commercial environment
- Ability to design:
- Practical frameworks
- Delivery models
- Measurement approaches
- Reporting processes
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including the ability to lead through influence across distributed teams
Desirable:
- Experience in the built environment, infrastructure, or professional services sector
Support & Next Steps
- Questions or need adjustments? Contact Karin Spies (Note: Do not send CVs via this email for GDPR compliance.)
Benefits & Rewards
At Arup, we prioritise collective growth and provide a total reward package that recognises your contributions:
- Competitive, equitable pay
- Belonging-driven culture, supporting health, wellbeing, and learning
- Profit Share as part of our reward system, reflecting our collective success
- Additional benefits:
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Accident insurance
- Income protection
- Flexible benefits to support personal and professional needs
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Freedom & Purpose
- We are member-owned, giving us the flexibility to:
- Choose our own direction
- Align work with our purpose
- Leave a lasting legacy
- Collaboration on ambitious projects delivers remarkable outcomes for clients and communities.
Diversity & Inclusion
Arup is an equal opportunity employer, actively nurturing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including (but not limited to):
- Age (within legal limits)
- Gender identity and expression
- Marital status
- Disability or neurodiversity
- Race or ethnicity
- Faith or belief
- Sexual orientation
- Socioeconomic background
- Pregnancy or parental leave
Our Commitments
- Developing equitable spaces and systems that foster a sense of belonging
- Supporting through internal networks:
- Race, ethnicity, cross-cultural
- Gender equity
- LGBTQ+ inclusion
- Disability support
Assistance During Recruitment: If you need reasonable adjustments throughout the application or interview process, please contact Karin Spies at karin.spies@arup.com. We’ll do everything possible to support you.
Application Process
For more details, visit: Arup Recruitment Process.
⚠ Security Note: Arup will never ask for bank details during recruitment.
Recruitment Agencies: We have a Preferred Supplier List of partners. Unsolicited CVs from unauthorised agencies will not be acknowledged.
Closing Date: Friday, 10 July 2026 We may close the role earlier if applications exceed expectations—apply early to avoid missing out!
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