The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity is available for a senior market leader to drive growth and impact across Mott MacDonald’s Ports & Coastal portfolio in Australia and New Zealand. This is a highly critical role focused on market strategy, client engagement, and winning work, while also acting as Project Director on key assignments.

Worldwide, ports are upgrading their infrastructure and adjusting their operations to take advantage of new technologies, meet the needs of larger vessels, decarbonise, and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

We need a connected-thinking approach to deliver sustainable outcomes for communities and clients across engineering projects developing ports and coastal infrastructure.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Opening opportunities through connected thinking, including:

- Winning work: Lead major pursuits and proposals, making informed bid decisions and guiding commercial strategy to deliver robust ROI.
- Strategic direction: Partner with the APAC Market Lead to update, champion and deliver the ANZ market strategy aligned to the business plan, with measurable actions.
- Client & market growth: Build impactful, multi-level relationships across government and industry and strengthen market positioning across the full spectrum of services.
- Leadership & collaboration: Coordinate market leadership nationally, support State Market/Client/Practice leaders, and foster collaboration across projects, locations and global networks.
- Strategic resourcing: Identify future capability needs, recruit high-calibre talent,



and develop client engagement and work-winning skills across the team.
- Project delivery leadership: Act as Project Director on key projects, ensuring quality professional services that enhance reputation, performance, and profitability.
- Quality, safety & risk: Maintain high professional standards and innovations, embed constructability and safety into design and delivery, and ensure team compliance with safety and risk requirements.

What you’ll bring: You’re a seasoned market and delivery leader who thrives in complex client environments and knows how to grow trusted relationships. You’ll also bring:

- Demonstrated success in strategic business development, stakeholder management and work-winning in a project environment.
- Strong leadership capability, ability to cast vision, motivate teams, lead through uncertainty, and build new value propositions.
- Deep commitment to professional excellence, continual learning, and developing others.
- Clear, confident communication and high-quality written skills for proposals and executive-level engagement.
- Commercial agility and strong risk awareness, with the ability to prioritise market investment effectively.




- Relevant tertiary qualifications and professional chartership (as applicable to your discipline).

Why join Mott MacDonald? You’ll join a globally connected consultancy recognised for delivering visionary, sustainable outcomes.

At Mott MacDonald, their employee benefits are built around five pillars: wellbeing, lifestyle, leave, career and development, to support you at work and at home. You’ll have access to a wellbeing portal, health checks, vaccinations, life and accident insurance, and confidential EAP support.

They offer flexible leave options including purchased leave and paid parental leave, alongside everyday perks such as referral bonuses, retail/tech discounts and social events.

They also invest strongly in your growth with chartership support, scholarships, professional memberships, mentoring, online learning and explicit career progression, plus opportunities to work on impactful projects and explore international mobility.

Their employee-owned model means there are no external investors, which builds a culture of genuine shared success. Everyone has a stake and a voice in the business, with a direct link to outcomes through personal and group performance bonuses. As you grow your career, your ownership grows too, reflecting your long-term impact and contribution. For senior hires, there is a clear pathway to ownership from day one.

Want to know more? Please get in touch with Emily Palmer on [0405 210 432](tel:0405 210 432) or Yasmine Johnson on [0420 691 100](tel:0420 691 100).

📌 Ports & Coastal, Market Leader ANZ (Sydney)
🏢 EGM Partners
📍 Sydney