Technical Director - Solution Development

As a member of our Applied Technology practice, you'll use your consulting skills to engage with clients early in the lifecycle. You'll thrive on diagnosing root causes of a client problem and applying your growth mindset to create commercially and technically compelling solutions. You'll use your experience, network and systems thinking skills to guide and integrate input from multiple internal disciplines, technology partners and our supply chain. You will be involved in the early stages of delivery to support successful mobilisation of project teams but will primarily operate in the pre-sales phases of engagements.

Role and Responsibilities:

As a Technical Director in the pre-sales team, you will be responsible for 5 things:

• Opportunity Development - Work closely with market teams to shape strategy, engage early with clients to understand their needs and position Atkins for downstream procurement activities. Support the rigorous qualification of opportunities to ensure effort is prioritised.
• Create Solutions - Identify market and technology trends and understand the competitive landscape to develop winning solutions that are both technically and commercially viable.
• Develop Integrated Service Lines - Create and continuously improve our go-to-market offerings, combining our broad range of capabilities into services which are closely aligned to client needs.
• Inform Capability Development - Provide feedback on client and technology trends to enable proactive capability development and capacity planning.
• Setting up for successful delivery - Work with delivery and commercial teams to ensure technical risks are fully understood at the time of tender and support early stages of delivery mobilisation.
• In addition to these 5 core responsibilities, you will be an active member of the Applied Technology practice, working collaboratively with colleagues, setting direction for the practice and bringing your fresh ideas and perspectives.

The successful candidate is highly likely to have the following skills and attributes:

• A desire to think innovatively and creatively about the best way to solve client's problems.
• An in-depth understanding and experience of the full range of capabilities required to deliver digital transformation, systems integration and data analytics solutions to customers
• Experience in Security, Defence and/or Critical National Infrastructure is highly desirable.
• Excellent commercial awareness and experience of developing business within a variety of difference commercial models.
• Excellent stakeholder management with focus on nurturing & developing strong relationships.
• Excellent negotiation, communication and relationship building skills; able to influence business decisions and formulate positive relationships with clients, strategic partners and colleagues.

Overview

Position - Technical Director - Solution Development - Permanent Position

Salary - DOE

Locations - London / Birmingham / Bristol

Keywords - Director of Pre sales team, Consultancy, Security, Defence, Critical National Infrastructure.

Apply for this role if you desire to be at the forefront of this business unit and deliver outstanding projects. My client empowers their people to be the professional individuals they want to be, working on projects they feel proud of, making a difference to the world they live in and the legacy they leave behind.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

This is a Permanent Role
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