20 Engineering Strategy jobs in the United Kingdom

Strategic Planning Manager
45,000 - 55,000 + Progression + Excellent Benefits + Training + Medical + Private Health Care + 2x Yearly Management bonus
Telford, Commutable from Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Market Drayton, Cannock

Are you an Strategic Planner looking to for a challenging role within a market leading company, offering plenty of progression and regular bonuses to boost earnings within a specialist industry?

This is an excellent opportunity to develop in a management position for a leading company, where you will be upskilled through training on bespoke products with excellent company benefits in a highly autonomous position.

This well renowned company are looking for a Strategic Planner to contribute to their high levels of success. They have a strong reputation for staff retention and progression, as well as offering great employee benefits.

You will work in a highly autonomous position, playing a pivotal role in strategic planning for long term success for a global company with an outstanding reputation.

This role would suit an Strategic Planner looking for autonomous position and long-term progression in a company offering excellent benefits and the chance to further earnings through bonuses.

The Role:

• Strategic Planner/Planning
• Network & building/maintaining client relationships
• Excellent benefits

The Person:

• Commercial experience
• Market/Branding background
• Commutable to Telford

BBBH (phone number removed)

To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Tom at Rise Technical Recruitment.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications, and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidate

Strategic Planning Manager
45,000 - 55,000 + Progression + Excellent Benefits + Training + Medical + Private Health Care + 2x Yearly Management bonus
Telford, Commutable from Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Stafford, Market Drayton, Cannock

Are you an Strategic Planner looking to for a challenging role within a market leading company, offering plenty of progression and regular bonuses to boost earnings within a specialist industry?

This is an excellent opportunity to develop in a management position for a leading company, where you will be upskilled through training on bespoke products with excellent company benefits in a highly autonomous position.

This well renowned company are looking for a Strategic Planner to contribute to their high levels of success. They have a strong reputation for staff retention and progression, as well as offering great employee benefits.

You will work in a highly autonomous position, playing a pivotal role in strategic planning for long term success for a global company with an outstanding reputation.

This role would suit an Strategic Planner looking for autonomous position and long-term progression in a company offering excellent benefits and the chance to further earnings through bonuses.

The Role:

• Strategic Planner/Planning
• Network & building/maintaining client relationships
• Excellent benefits

The Person:

• Commercial experience
• Market/Branding background
• Commutable to Telford

BBBH (phone number removed)

To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Tom at Rise Technical Recruitment.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications, and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidate

Solution Consultant, Engineering Information Management

Hybrid, UK

About the role

The Idox Group is an AIM-listed plc, a multinational company with a UK HQ and an international outlook. We build software for government and industry to work better and comply with regulations, and are market leaders, with a broad portfolio of Products and providing services built on insight and honed with technological advances and smart apps.

With the success of our specialist Development and Testing activities, this is an excellent career opportunity for a Solution Consultant looking to join a company able to provide a sustainable career path in international business and technology.

Reporting to the Global Delivery Manager, you will also be designing, implementing and training on Idox Engineering Information Management (EIM) software designed to facilitate project collaboration and ensure the accuracy and integrity of information on complex capital projects, for example oil and gas, renewable energy, manufacturing and construction sectors. Bringing the power of digital to engineering and construction, our on-premise and cloud-based solutions enable the efficient build and management of critical assets and infrastructure through better data integrity, easier collaboration and tighter control of costs. Please follow the link for more information:

With Idox, you will learn about the software itself, build industry knowledge and develop a set of strong business skills. You will have a buddy from day one, to make sure you can make the most of learning opportunities in the business. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and flexible working to support your wellbeing as well as your professional development.

Key responsibilities

• Gather and document customer’s business and functional requirements

• Design and configure solutions that leverage the Idox EIM product portfolio based on customer business requirements

• Create and guide subsequent solution design documents

• Oversee the implementation of the solution design ensuring that the customer’s business problems are addressed

• Provide Installation and infrastructure support as required to the Infrastructure Specialist

• Advise and influence customers on business and solution issues during workshops

• Liaise between customers and Product Development teams to ensure all queries are handled appropriately

• Assist in creating and updating technical/user guides, knowledge bases, surveys and other communications

• Provide end user support and training of our products as required during project phases

• Develop and maintain good customer relationships, particularly with decision makers, influencers, and with key end-users

• Support Sales, as and when required, to assist in selling efforts

• Assist in the continuous improvement and maintenance of the Design and Delivery Methodology

• Adherence to Idox Information Security policies and protocols.

To be successful, you’ll need to bring:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience of one or more of the following: Content Management, Engineering Document Management, workflow or knowledge management

• Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and presentations

• Delivery of IT solutions encompassing infrastructure, packaged software, custom application development, business process improvement and culture change

• Strong technical background

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Self-motivated and works with little supervision

• Fluency in spoken and written English.

• Flexibility with time management, working hours, traveling, etc

Additional desirable qualities:

• Experience in document management

• Advanced functional understanding of EIM product portfolio, including DCTM thru current release and FileNet thru current release

• Technical background HTML, XML, Java Script

• Background in industry: engineering, construction, energy, Oil & Gas

• Migrating data to controlled environments

About Idox

Our specialist software solutions power the performance of government and industry, driving productivity and a better experience for everyone. Built around the user and designed in collaboration with experts who have worked through every detail of every process from end-to-end, our hard-working process engines deliver exceptional functionality and embed workflows that drive efficiency and best practice with a long-term focus for regulated environments. Through the automation of tasks, the simplification of complex operations, finding scalability as operations evolve, and more effective management of information, we help our customers harness the power of Digital, so they can do more.

We employ around 700 staff in the UK and worldwide, including Europe, North America and Asia, so some travel to meet colleagues may be required.

Our Values, Our Culture

We are ambitious in working together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. Idox is a company where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit, where we respect all our employees, customers and communities in which we live, work and are a part of.

We recruit and reward employees based on capability and performance – regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. Each office location worldwide, is free to respond to local needs to create a culturally sensitive workplace for everyone. In doing so, we want every employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

How to apply

Please submit a CV, and a short cover letter (maximum 500 words - including salary expectation, and current remuneration) explaining why you feel you would be suited to this role.

Please note successful applicants will need to satisfy the necessary background verification as a standard part of hiring process. This is in order to help us make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with access to personal and sensitive data.

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a Strategic Planning Manager to join our Strategic Land Team within Vistry Services. You will be based at any of our regional offices, however travel to the Cotswolds or Brentwood will be necessary. As our Strategic Planning Manager, you will promote and achieve planning permission for the development of strategic land assets held within the Vistry Group portfolio.  There will be the opportunity to manage sites where Vistry is master developer through build out.  You will proactively assist in the identification and assessment of new land opportunities which have potential for future development by the business.

We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• Degree / master’s degree in planning or related subject
• RTPI qualified or working towards completion of your APC
• Ideally previous experience of working with a housing developer or consultancy within the private sector
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Confident when working with landowners, agents, local authorities and other stakeholders
• Previous experience of working with strategic land is advantageous but not essential
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it

• Establish, and review, planning strategies to ensure that each strategic land asset is effectively promoted to achieve a local plan allocation and/or planning consent acceptable to the Company as soon as reasonably practicable.
• Report key policy changes or milestones to the appropriate Director and ensure that promotion strategies are updated as required.
• Ensure that all sites are promoted in line with contractual and planning obligations and build relationships with landowners and agents.
• Discuss development proposals for sites with local planning authorities and other relevant bodies, through formal or informal pre-application routes.
• Instruct and manage external consultants in line with the Company’s compliance procedures and monitor/report project budgets accordingly.
• Coordinate the timely submission of representations at relevant stages of the development plan process, including responses to a LPA’s evidence base.
• Manage preparation, and attendance, of public consultation events (virtual and in person) to promote sites and applications. Analyse, and response to, feedback received.
• Lead the preparation, submission, and determination of planning applications.
• Lead the submission and management of planning appeals, ensuring all relevant deadlines are met.
• Ensure all paperwork and reporting is produced accurately and as required by the Company.
• Engage with other industry groups (e.g. HBF regional meetings) as appropriate and share updates with the wider team.
• Work with the wider Strategic Land & Major Projects Team in the identification of new land opportunities and assist in acquiring the site under an option/ at suitable terms
• Undertake site visits both accompanied and unaccompanied.
• Ensure compliance with the Company’s health and safety and environmental policies and procedures.

We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach. 

Join us in making Vistry.  

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The Skills You'll Need: Japanese, compliance, risk management, cyber security, governance

Your New Salary: TBC

Hybrid 3 days office/ 2 days home.

Permanent

Start: ASAP

Working hours : 9-5

Strategic Planning JAPANESE speaker- What You'll be Doing:

• Managed and promoted strategic projects and programmes across the EMEA region, with a particular focus on initiatives related to Securities.
• Planned and implemented strategic policies to enhance governance, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance throughout EMEA.
• Led safety and soundness efforts across EMEA branches, representative offices, and affiliates, including crisis management in cases of disasters, terrorism, and pandemics.
• Acted as a key liaison between Head Office in Tokyo and EMEA entities, handling communication, coordination, and negotiation in both Japanese and English, including interpretation when required.
• Supported senior management and cross-functional teams in developing corporate communication strategies, brand initiatives, facility management, and strengthening alliances and group collaboration.

Strategic Planning JAPANESE speaker- The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Japanese to mother tongue standard (both written and oral)
• Excellent understanding of a broad spectrum of banking business and other financial industries, both in the global and regional market.
• Proven ability in strategic planning and business development, with a strong track record in building and maintaining internal and external relationships.

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