Rail Associate Director / Director

Rail is essential for connecting communities, enabling thriving economies, and fostering sustainable growth. Trusted by governments, operators, regulatory bodies, and financial institutions, Steer’s Rail Advisory practice tackles the industry’s most complex challenges, providing strategic, commercial, economic, and operational advice that drives confident decision-making. With over 300 client partnerships, we have contributed to the £40bn [€250m] economic value the rail sector brings to the UK [EU]. We are committed to making rail better – more cost-effective, sustainable, and attractive for the communities it serves. We deliver powerful solutions that create value for stakeholders, shareholders, and customers alike.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated, self-starting, problem-solver and collaborative professional to join our Rail Advisory practice at Associate Director/Director grade. This person will be an important member of our senior team, responsible for sourcing, winning, leading and delivering commissions largely in the UK, but also looking for opportunities to support our global team.

The Rail Advisory Associate Director/Director will:

• Build a vibrant pipeline of work through active management of client relationships.
• Leverage their reputation as a specialist in the field to secure high value advisory work.
• Support Steer’s Rail Advisory practice via client engagement and proposal development.
• Assume leadership for delivering business performance and making strong commercial decisions.
• Lead projects as a Project Director, bringing their industry experience ensuring that best practice techniques are applied consistently and full integration with Steer project teams.
• Lead by example through mentoring and deliberate collaboration across the company.

Requirements

About the candidate

At Steer, our employees are self-motivated, goal-oriented, and adaptive. Steer commits itself to providing our employees with the utmost support and training to streamline success from day one.

The ideal candidate for this role has:

• Presence and reputation in the GB Rail sector with extensive and current client, partner and stakeholder networks
• Strong knowledge of the GB railway and a keen understanding of current challenges it faces
• Ability to provide high quality and analytically robust advice to clients on both the strategic and day to day challenges they face
• Strong technical capability in one or more disciplines including Commercial, Operations, Transformation and Transactions.
• Proven ability to originate opportunities, win work, and deliver work as Project Director for both the public and private sector
• The ability to work autonomously yet in collaboration with other colleagues and our clients
• Leadership experience
• Industry experience essential, with time spent in consultancy roles desirable

Benefits

Why join us

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. As an employee-owned company means that our team are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and that’s the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry. The teams at Steer are spread across our 5 offices in the UK: London, Leeds, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester and Birmingham.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

We offer a competitive benefits package including:

• Private medical insurance and health screening
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Company pension scheme
• EAP and mental health first aiders
• 25 days annual leave and ability to buy and sell annual leave days,
• Season Ticket Loan/ Cycle to Work,
• Group Share Incentive Plan,
• Up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, liveable wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Work Environment

All Steer employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in the office or on-site with clients. An employee’s typical work week consists of 37.5 hours (Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be adjusted for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.)

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

Ready to apply? Just complete our brief online application form and attach your CV and covering letter.