Associate People Movement Consultant

Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects?

We are recruiting for an Associate People Movement Consultant to work on some of the world's most complex and technically challenging crowd flow projects.

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The Analytics & Crowd Dynamics team at Buro Happold is challenged with the most unique, interesting people-centric projects around the world. This requires us to be at the forefront of innovation in the field to address the complex challenges of analysis, optimisation and solutions for how people move and behave. We are disrupting how buildings and cities are planned, designed, and operated. We are putting people at the centre of decision making, using people flow simulations and other methods to analyse crowd behaviour, visitor movement and management. We are optimising spaces such as airports, museums, theatres, workplaces, stadia, campuses and urban spaces. We take pride in delighting our clients by providing practical solutions that have significant positive impact on user experience, the performance of the venue or space and facilitating crowd management.

The work is highly varied and challenging, and would involve complex modelling work, as well as providing day to day design and management advice to architects and clients.

We are interested in candidates who are dynamic, enthusiastic and organised to work independently across all aspects of projects from inception to delivery. In return, you can expect the following:

• Career in cutting edge analytics and simulations – backed by Buro Happold’s strong employee-centred personal and professional development
• Drive the emerging data driven and people centred approach to solve real-world problems that have a direct impact on the efficiency as well as the quality of life within buildings and cities;
• Collaborate with a talented and diverse array of problem-solvers, including computational designers, engineers, urban and transport planners, security specialists, economists, etc.
• Work in an innovative team producing visceral, visually compelling data insights for high profile clients in a range of sectors and international markets.

Key Duties:

• Work across several interesting projects from a diverse range of sectors, including crowds in and around Makkah, KSA
• Providing day to day design and management advice to clients including architects, developers, operators and authorities.
• Deliver top quality crowd flow / people movement consultancy working with our international clients and stakeholders. Overseeing modelling and analysis, report/presentation delivery, and client liaison.
• Develop client relationships, prepare and submit bid proposals for work in liaison with the team’s work winners across the business.
• Undertaking the necessary project management, quality assurance and time management on projects to deliver high value, profitable work effectively.
• Support across a range of sectors using existing understanding of the standards and methods that are applied to different scenarios. Guide and mentor other team members in such analysis and delivery to the client.
• Contribute fresh innovative ideas in group meetings and team discussions, taking a lead on innovative development of ideas on a project or otherwise.
• Travel as needed to attend on site and client meetings which will include trips to Saudi Arabia.

Your skills & experience:

• Significant industry experience of crowd, pedestrian modelling, crowd management consultancy.
• A degree in a relevant subject including but not limited to transport, mathematics, economics, statistics, operational research, geo-spatial analysis, physics, organizational psychology, and engineering.
• Experience leading crowd flow projects.
• Experience working as part of a specialist team integrating with a variety of disciplines and stakeholders. On site crowd management experience desirable.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills with experience analysing and interpreting people flow and other data sets, generating assumptions as necessary in lieu of data availability.
• Experience of crowd modelling packages and their applications such as Legion, Pathfinder, Mass Motion, Viswalk etc
• Ability to present and communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible manner to clients, including at board level when required.
• Desirable experience using GIS software to analyse and visualize geospatial data (ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Confident using Microsoft Office packages, in particular excel, word and powerpoint.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud products (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) beneficial.
• With a number of our current projects being in Saudi Arabia, it would be advantageous for the successful candidate to be fluent in Arabic and able to travel to KSA on a sporadic basis.

What we offer

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Generous pension contribution of 10%, life assurance and income protection.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
• An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.