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Senior Talent Partner specialising in Energy, Infrastructure, and Data Centre Sectors
Department: EMEA Consultancy
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
About Soben
Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. In March 2025, Soben became part of Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice within its Industry X division. This strategic acquisition combines our deep expertise in cost and commercial management with Accenture’s global scale and digital innovation.
Benefits of the role include access to world-class resources and technology, involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals, and career development at scale with exposure to international clients and cutting-edge project environments.
In this role you will
- Act as the client-facing Project Manager for your commission, maintaining regular contact and leading formal pre-start and mid-term review meetings.
- Understand client requirements and desired outputs and communicate these effectively to internal teams.
- Lead internal pre-start briefings, set achievable targets, and prepare supporting documentation.
- Hold daily progress meetings with billing teams, resolve technical issues, and ensure alignment with client expectations.
- Manage technical queries (TQs), liaise with clients for responses, and apply reasonable assumptions to maintain programme momentum.
- Conduct detailed QA reviews and gap analyses of BQs and pricing documents to ensure compliance with scope and Soben standards.
- Ensure full execution of Soben systems and QA procedures by billing teams.
- Maintain a detailed working knowledge of prepared documents and lead the handover process, acting as the point of contact for post-submission queries.
- Build strong working relationships with client estimators to support repeat business.
- Be willing to travel occasionally within the UK and Europe to support client engagement.
- Champion continuous improvement in service delivery and support UK Directors in business matters as required.
- Provide effective coaching and mentoring to junior team members.
- Uphold and promote Soben’s core values in all aspects of work.
About you
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) standard in Quantity Surveying, a minimum of ten years’ post-qualification experience, ideally including exposure to complex projects.
- Management or team leadership experience is highly desirable, particularly where you’ve overseen technical delivery, coordinated multi-disciplinary teams, or acted as a client interface.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills—capable of building trust with clients, resolving technical queries, and guiding internal teams with clarity and confidence.
- Pragmatic, common-sense approach with the flexibility to adapt to changing project demands, tight deadlines, and evolving client expectations.
- Proactive mindset, attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
About life at Soben
We’re on a mission to rewrite the rules. We’re a diverse team of professionals who consider our work a vocation, not just a job. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture, and we’re proud of our unique personality and diverse perspectives.
Grow with us: ongoing training and personal development, opportunities to progress quickly, and responsibility on exciting projects. Our Leadership Principles guide how we engage with each other and our clients, and help employees flourish in their careers.
- We always deliver on our promises, no matter how small
- We are driven to solve our clients’ problems as if paying our rent or mortgage depends on it
- We have a bias for action. Actions make things happen
- We employ the best people who are ambitious, hardworking, humble, and open to feedback. We empower them to “proceed until apprehended”
- We have a business owner mentality to cost management
- We are open, honest, and direct in our communications
- We have a growth mindset
- We reinvest our profits to create a sustainable business for the long term
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