Strategic Transport Planning Lead

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Seventy-five years ago, we created a home for creative thinkers seeking to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Today, a collective of 16,000+ Arupians gather across the globe from 140 different countries to build a sustainable future.

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**About this role**
With an emerging portfolio in urban mobility, Arup requires a motivated individual with proven Transport Planning skills to build a growing team and to drive a culture of successful work winning and delivery of projects. The purpose of this role is to build and lead the transport planning offering in Malaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur.
This is a high impact role that comprises client engagement, work winning, project delivery, discipline leadership and technical advice. You will provide focus, continuity and technical guidance across transport planning projects.

**What will I do?**
- You will provide timely and high quality technical advice to clients in Project Director or Project Manager roles where you will take a long-term strategic view of the business and contribute to Arup’s development plan and negotiate contracts and agreements with customers and suppliers
- You will lead pursuits of major transport projects in Malaysia, including stakeholder liaison prior to tenders being released, You will write and review successful proposals and tender documents, help to assemble teams and manage the proposal process
- You will be the team leader, accountable for significant complex trasportaion planning projects in which you will develop work programs, set budgets, manage deliverables, manage staff resources, successfully deliver projects on time and to budget, and cultivate client relationships
- You will be responsible for work products, demonstrating client-centric and compelling narratives from technical analyses. You will direct and review transport planning work performed by the wider transport planning team
- You will provide sound team leadership, coaching and development by establishing and supporting a culture of quality and client care. You will share your experience and lend to the technical excellence of the broader Arup team and support recruitment, appraisals, performance development, morale and motivation of staff

**What will I bring?**
- Advanced degree in Transport planning/engineering with at least 15 years of relevant experience in Startgic transport planning, public transport planning, integrated transport and future transport solutions, traffic modelling or a combination in a consulting business environment.
- Strong relationships with some key clients and City Governments. Influential and active in the Malaysian transport planning community.
- Experience leading Projects across the project life cycle, from business case through to reference design within a consulting business environment.
- Experience in leading team with the ability to translate new agendas across government into technical work.
- Membership of relevant professional institutions/professional peer bodies or significant credit towards eligibility for membership.

**Our firm**
Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants, and technical specialists, working across every aspect of the built environment.

Founded by Sir Ove Arup, a gifted engineer-philosopher with an original and restless mind, our firm has always had a keen sense of purpose.

We create spaces where everyone feels safe, seen and included and able to perform at their best. We take an approach to flexible working that supports the diversity and well-being of our members.

**Are you ready to shape a better world?**

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