Divisional Director

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About The Role

Are you an experienced senior leader ready to shape the future of maritime risk, navigation and shipping consultancy? Do you thrive in high-growth, high-change environments where your leadership genuinely influences direction, capability and impact? Are you motivated by the opportunity to guide a specialist division into its next phase of growth and impact?

We're looking for a Divisional Director to lead NASH Maritime, part of APEM Group's Marine Science & Development sector. NASH Maritime are recognised across the sector for their expertise in maritime risk, navigational safety and shipping analysis - and this role offers the chance to steer a division with a clear mission: to support a safe, sustainable, accident-free marine environment through better understanding and mitigation of maritime risks.

As a key member of the APEM Group leadership team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping strategy, driving operational excellence, strengthening commercial performance and developing a high-performing, collaborative culture across a specialist and growing team. You'll provide the direction, structure and empowerment needed to ensure the division delivers exceptional work while remaining resilient, ambitious and aligned to APEM Group's wider vision. This is a role with real influence: shaping how our maritime services evolve, how our people grow, and how we continue to deliver world-class consultancy across a high-growth global business.

What you'll bring

We're looking for a leader with both strategic capability and operational maturity. You'll need:

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality consultancy services to time, budget and a high scientific or technical standard
• Strong understanding of the markets relevant to navigation, maritime risk or the wider marine environment
• Experience across the full project delivery lifecycle, including commercial tendering and forecasting
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A leadership style grounded in transparency, clear expectations, coaching and development
• Demonstrated experience driving successful change through teams
• Confidence in operational decision-making and balancing commercial and delivery pressures

Desirable:

• Postgraduate qualifications or professional membership
• Established industry network
• Experience working in high-growth or acquisition-integrated organisations
• Working understanding of P&L and financial performance drivers

You will be offered the chance to work on a variety of projects, many of our employees have worked on projects that have been of personal interest to them. We match this with a commitment to continuous development and learning to support your career. We also offer benefits to look after you, from private medical insurance for all employees, access to mental health first aiders and comprehensive income protection if you cannot work. We also offer superb flexible working options, balancing work with your life.

Next steps

We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can't tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area - we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.

If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need some basic information and your CV, we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applications.

About Us

The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally. Our successful pioneering work has enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity. At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.