Associate Director / Director: People and Transformation Advisory

The Hub is a fast-growing specialist transport consultancy working at the heart of some of the sector’s most important challenges. Our clients choose us for our deep transport expertise, practical insight and collaborative style. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic and passionate to expand our people and transformation business. We work with major national and international clients and offer all our people a unique fast-paced environment for personal growth and advancement.

If you’re an entrepreneur at heart, eager to seize new opportunities, maximize your potential, and achieve success, we want to hear from you. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation with a culture that puts people first, and we particularly encourage applications from women and people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Why Join The Hub?

• An opportunity to join a fast-growing consultancy business and help shape its direction and development, being responsible for expanding our People and Transformation business.
• To implement your skills in developing people, transformation and change projects of (inter)national importance, for transportation clients.
• Assume leadership for delivering business performance and making strong commercial decisions.
• Accelerate your growth and join a flat-structured team where we collaborate and all take responsibility for growth.
• Guide projects as a Project Director, ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently and diversifying The Hub’s offering in the Transformation space.
• Own a part of the business plan to deliver growth in line with our strategy, building a pipeline of work through active management of (new) client relationships.
• Champion others through mentoring and deliberate collaboration across the company.
• Work on internationally significant projects for major global clients.

About Us

Since launching in 2020, The Hub has grown quickly by supporting clients on some of the transport sector’s most exciting and challenging projects in the UK and internationally. We combine strategic and commercial advisory services with deep sector expertise, helping clients make better decisions and deliver evidence-based solutions. Our roots are in rail, but our ambition is broader: to grow across the wider transport industry while maintaining the focus, pace and quality that makes us distinctive. We are also proud to set annual measurable targets across key social impact areas, particularly EDI and wellbeing.

We are looking for someone who…

• Has presence, reputation (10yrs+ experience) and a network in transport sector clients
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mind-set who enjoys building client relationships with a proven ability to generate leads, win work, and deliver work in people and transformation projects in the transport sector, covering for example;

• Complex business transformation and org change initiatives
• Designing and implementing target operating models, business improvement programmes, people strategy and change management
• Delivering people change, business readiness and embedding new ways of working including organisational and culture change

• Managing senior stakeholder relationships and facilitating decision making

• Knows how to work with clients to understand their perspective, generate solutions that they buy into and achieve outcomes;
• Has an ability to shape The Hub’s offer to target growth markets;
• Has relevant experience in project management, and is comfortable with managing a range of large consulting projects effectively and in parallel; and
• Can develop and co-ordinate people and teams.

Experience within consultancy is highly desirable but we are equally interested in people who can demonstrate the commercial, client and delivery skills needed to build a successful advisory practice. Relevant professional qualifications are desirable but not essential, such as Prosci Change Management Certification, APMG Change Management Practitioner or equivalent, MSP Practioner, PRINCE2 Practioner or other programme/project management qualification, CIPD Level 5 or 7 or equivalent people/organisation development qualification. We are looking for someone with energy, judgement and the appetite to make a significant impact.

We are happy to offer this as a part-time or full-time role

What we offer…

• A highly competitive salary with a transparent remuneration framework
• Market-beating performance-based bonus scheme
• Flexible pension contributions
• Medical, dental and life insurance
• A personal learning and development budget, with access to learning opportunities and professional coaching.
• Extended parental leave
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with an opportunity to take a further 5 days each year
• Flexible working arrangements, including part-time working
• Hybrid working
• Wellbeing and smart health benefits
• Referral bonus scheme

We are serious about helping you continuously develop yourself and provide support in doing so.

The Location

We are located in Holborn in the heart of London close to our most important clients and partners. We offer flexible working from home as well as the office as we understand that our people like a healthy balance between face to face contact with colleagues and a reduced commute. We offer this as a part-time or full-time role.