Overview
Lead the Analysis, Portfolio and Investment (API) Practice within the Asset and Network Planning directorate for the M25 Strategic Road Network, translating asset condition, performance, risk, cost intelligence and whole-life carbon impacts into contract-compliant investment strategies, effective maintenance approaches and efficient renewal programmes.
The role spans Asset Data Intelligence, Lifecycle Planning & Prioritisation, Decision Support and Asset Strategy. Accountable for the quality and defensibility of the data, models and recommendations that shape investment decisions to handback.
A senior, hands-on role in a small, high-performing team, contributing directly to analysis and assurance, leading complex stakeholder engagement, and briefing senior leaders and the client with clear, evidence-based advice.
Success looks like auditable decisions with a clear line of sight from need to outcome, trusted tools aligned to real performance, plans delivered on time with minimal rework, and strong stakeholder confidence.
Your role
Leadership and business unit management
- Lead and govern the API practice, setting priorities and standards and owning products, service outputs, assurance, peer review and sign-off routes.
- Act as technical authority and stay hands-on, contributing to delivery (analysis, authoring, signoff and senior presentations) to produce robust and defensible investment recommendations to stakeholders.
Lifecycle planning and decision support
- Own and operate lifecycle decision support tools, forecasting deterioration, optimising interventions and profiling investment to handback.
- Define and assure model logic, assumptions and constraints, keeping tools current and aligned to observed asset performance.
- Sign off outputs for contractual compliance and defensibility (Schedule 14, ACCP, handback), including scenario, sensitivity and risk analysis where needed.
- Embed whole-life carbon accounting within lifecycle planning and option appraisal and, where relevant, assess wider environmental impacts (for example, air quality and noise), ensuring impacts are quantified, comparable across options, and used alongside cost, risk and performance in recommendations.
Asset investment strategy
- Own and deliver the annual AMFP, coordinating inputs across CPS, CP, supply chain and client stakeholders to produce a coherent, assured and defensible plan on time.
- Act as a trusted focal point for internal and external stakeholders, leading responses to complex investment and strategy questions with clear, evidence-based advice.
- Develop and embed TOTEX-based investment strategies, translating objectives into practical decision rules, investment pathways and funding profiles.
- Work in close partnership with the Head of Asset Management, Asset Sponsors and Asset Managers to shape investment justification, prioritisation criteria, condition methodologies, maintenance and renewal approaches, and performance outcomes, maintaining a clear line of sight from need to outcome.
- Establish and govern prioritisation and recommendations, setting criteria, tools and assurance, resolving conflicts and alignment issues, and providing recommendation authority on strategic investment and risk positions (escalating to A&NP leadership where required).
Financial, commercial and stakeholder assurance
- Provide analytical assurance and commercial support on assumptions, affordability and risk, with quantified evidence packs for standards change, deferral and risk transfer.
- Influence senior stakeholders with concise advice and work with Delivery and Engineering to keep programmes practical and deliverable.
Asset data intelligence and governance
- Drive the development and adoption of data governance and quality controls across inspections, surveys, inventories, performance and delivered works, working with the Head of Asset Management, Head of Assurance, Asset Sponsors and Asset Managers to embed consistent metrics, controls and reporting that drive traceability and auditability across contributing teams.
- Integrate cross-asset datasets, document definitions and limitations, and produce repeatable insight that improves decisions and supports continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain the carbon data baseline for maintenance and renewal activities (materials, construction, transport and operational impacts where relevant), ensuring assumptions, factors and outputs are transparent, auditable and suitable for governance and client reporting.
About you
Essential experience
- Senior experience in infrastructure asset management, investment planning or portfolio strategy in a regulated environment (transport, utilities or similar).
- Strong stakeholder influence, able to brief and challenge senior leaders and client representatives, translating analysis for non-technical decision makers.
- Leadership of analytical teams, building capability, setting standards, and assuring outputs used for senior investment decisions.
- Experience developing or assuring lifecycle models and decision support tools (deterioration, treatments, optimisation and scenario analysis).
- Commercial acumen and contractual awareness, able to quantify and challenge cost, risk and affordability, and work across Engineering, Delivery, Finance and Commercial to produce deliverable plans.
- Experience applying carbon accounting or whole-life carbon assessment to infrastructure maintenance, renewals or investment decisions, including using carbon data to inform option appraisal and prioritisation.
- Proven ability to build and develop a small, high-performing team, coaching and upskilling individuals while maintaining direct personal contribution to delivery and assurance.
Desirable experience
- Experience in long-term concession environments (DBFO, PPP, PFI or similar).
- Familiarity with UK highways standards, condition-based performance regimes and handback requirements.
- Experience supporting standards change, deferral strategies, value engineering or risk transfer.
- Exposure to probabilistic methods, optimisation and scenario testing.
Technical knowledge and skills
- Strong analytical capability, able to interrogate datasets and assumptions, and present clear, defensible conclusions.
- Working knowledge of lifecycle planning, whole life cost analysis and TOTEX-based investment approaches.
- Proficiency in relevant analytical tools and data platforms (for example, Excel, SQL, Power BI, Python, specialist DST platforms).
Behavioural and leadership criteria
- Credible technical leader who influences across Engineering, Commercial and Finance, translating analysis into decision-ready advice.
- Disciplined decision maker, comfortable with uncertainty, making timely judgements while keeping assumptions and risk exposure explicit.
- Constructive challenger and collaborator, balancing technical risk, contractual exposure and value for money, driving ownership and follow-through.
- Builds a high-performing, learning-focused culture, developing capability and confidence across the team, and creating the conditions for sustained delivery and continuous improvement.
Values and behaviours
- Customer-focused, builds relationships and improves outcomes and service.
- Excellence and continuous improvement, raises standards and adds value.
- Collaboration and respect, shares knowledge, removes barriers and leads inclusively.
- Trust and integrity, open, reliable and consistent, with a pragmatic, can-do approach.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
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