Sports & Major Events - Principal Consultant / Associate

Do you have a passionate interest in mobility around sports and major events, strong communication skills and a problem-solving mindset? Do you enjoy working with teams across different sectors to plan and deliver successful transport strategies that will have a positive impact?

As a specialist in our Sports and Major Events team, you will be joining a growing team providing advice to a wide range of private and public-sector clients and helping deliver some of the most challenging operational plans to ensure the safety and most efficient way of travel for thousands of people.

At Steer we have been supporting our clients by delivering specialist consultancy services across transport, cities and infrastructure, building upon successes in supplying solutions to some of the world’s most prestigious events we seek an enthusiastic, talented individual who wants to learn and develop their career in sports mobility. Within a niche market, we have worked with international organisations helping deliver incredibly important event hosts including UEFA, The FA, World Rugby, The Commonwealth Games Federation.

At Steer we recognise that your career will be unique to you as an individual, that is why we provide opportunities to expand your knowledge across new clients, new projects and even new markets if that interests you. Our support, whether that is as part of project teams, formal classroom or online training, or mentoring and coaching will enable you to be the best you can be and find day to day fulfilment as well as be supported on a longer term career path.

Experience/skills required:

You will work as part of a team providing solutions to both private and public sector clients. This position requires an enthusiastic, hard-working person, who wants to be part of our growing, dynamic team and in this role, tasks are likely to include:

• Client and stakeholder liaison to understand requirements for the projects

• Provision of high quality operational / design advice to clients

• Leading work streams within projects with supervision, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently.

• Preparing and presenting reports, proposals, briefing notes and transport planning documentation.

• Working with multi-disciplinary teams to prepare effective plans and documentation.

• Manage project budgets exercising effective financial and budgetary control.

• Delivery of excellent joined-up and high-profile development and event projects in the UK, which contributes to the company’s reputation for delivering excellence.

• Taking responsibility to deliver key tasks with a range of projects.

• Contributing to the production and delivery of proposals and marketing materials related to our market area from time to time.

• Assisting in general business development initiatives.

• Taking part in training to develop both your technical and consultancy skills.

To be successful in the role, you will:

• Be comfortable working in creative multi-disciplinary teams and provide positive contributions.

• Demonstrate a good track record of winning and delivering major events.

• Take responsibility for key tasks and workstreams, managing multiple deadlines in parallel.

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven project management/delivery experience in a transport environment.

Benefits

Work-Life Balance

At Steer we believe that a healthy work-life balance is paramount to long term success, which is why all employees seeking a full time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients and why we aim to keep our employees' typical work week to 37.5 hours, reflective of client needs.

We offer a flexible approach to work and believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine.

The team you will be joining is based across our three UK offices in Birmingham, London, Leeds and Manchester and there will be opportunities to work with colleagues based in our offices overseas. Our social and cultural responsibilities form an important part of our culture and values. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly EDIA and sustainability.

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fairly and at a competitive rate. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity, graduate scheme and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total rewards.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Benefits

We offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance and health screening, life assurance, group income protection, company pension scheme, EAP, ability to buy and sell annual leave days, Season Ticket Loan, a group Share Incentive Plan, up to 5 days for volunteering activities and a discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Additionally, we offer 25 days annual leave, plus the 8 bank holidays and the ability to buy and sell leave in the year to give extra flexibility.

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. Being an employee-owned company means that our people are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and it is the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry.

Steer is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or gender, Veteran status or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome.

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.