Location
Brighton and Hove

Hours
Full Time / Permanent with Flexible Working Pattern

Salary
Circa £100,000 per year (DOE), plus an excellent benefits package including 40% performance-related bonus per annum, private healthcare (family), and £550 per month car allowance.

About the Role
As a key member of the SPT Strategic Portfolio Leadership team, you will share accountability with peers for the development and delivery of the UK’s critical transmission reinforcement projects. This portfolio is high value and complex, with a total value of approximately £3.75 billion+, urgently required to meet the UK’s Net Zero target.

You will drive the development of all large super grid transmission projects, ensuring key milestones for land, planning, and consenting activities are achieved to meet delivery timescales. The role covers all large development projects in the Strategic Portfolio aligned with East & West delivery pipelines ranging from 275kV to 400kV. Projects include new overlines, new substations, and upgrading existing infrastructure to enable greater renewable energy capacity to flow to UK demand centres.

Your responsibilities will include defining leadership and management allocation for individual projects/programmes based on investment level, resource utilisation, location, complexity, and risk. You will be accountable for consenting, land, and commercial contract strategy and lead a Strategic Portfolio Development team of approximately 25-30 permanent staff, alongside managing a large number of key strategic EPC partners and indirect management of circa 200+ personnel.

You will ensure effective risk management to deliver projects on budget and schedule, including sharing risks with EPC partners and managing commercial risks on open book contracts. Driving opportunities to accelerate timelines in line with OFGEM ASTI frameworks and incentives will be key.

Establishing and operating a robust governance framework across the development portfolio is essential to ensure compliance with regulatory and company reporting and approval processes. You will maintain comprehensive records of key risks, issues, actions, and decisions to support regulatory investigations if necessary.

Budget management across the portfolio, developing strong relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders including government officials, agencies, local authorities, other TOs, OFGEM, NESO, and EPC partners, will be critical.

Leading, developing, and motivating a high-performing team with a strong delivery and commercial focus is required. You will hold project management teams accountable for critical milestones in planning, consenting, and land acquisitions, driving statutory processes and public consultation ahead of critical paths.

Compliance with all management systems for professional and efficient delivery of the investment programme, including Health and Safety, Environmental, and Quality management, is mandatory.

You will lead continuous improvement initiatives within Project Development processes and support wider organisational improvements to enhance project outcomes. Additionally, you will manage transmission connections customers to ensure in-service dates are on track and customer securities align with contracting liabilities.

Experience
- Significant high CAPEX project/programme management experience with large EPC project development and delivery.
- Strong commercial focus and understanding of financial planning for large capital projects.
- In-depth knowledge of land and planning processes in Scotland, including statutory processes such as Compulsory Purchase Orders.
- Proven success in leading and developing large multi-disciplined teams.
- Experience delivering excellent outcomes within demanding timescales and high-pressure environments.
- Skilled in managing multiple project development issues, prioritising key risks and issues.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong ability to develop and maintain strategic relationships with EPC partners, regulators, leadership, and industry stakeholders.
- Knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation, CDM Regulations, and practices.
- Project Management qualification or extensive capital infrastructure programme/project management experience.

About you
- Confident and assured leader with the ability to focus on strategic vision and key issues.
- Strong delivery focus with excellent project leadership skills across complex, high-value programmes.
- Ability to engage, influence, and negotiate effectively with EPC partners, other TOs, NESO, local authorities, and OFGEM at director/executive level.
- Motivated to lead and develop a high-performing team with a commercial mindset.
- Committed to compliance, governance, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
- Degree level education, preferably in a transferable sector relevant to the role.
- Successful track record of developing large infrastructure projects through the development phase to handover.
- Excellent stakeholder management experience.