Strategic Programme Manager – Transmission and Distribution

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Are you ready to join a talented, driven team and shape the future of energy infrastructure?

In this role you'll play a central role in translating AECOM’s Transmission & Distribution growth strategy into a clear, governed and executable portfolio of initiatives.  This role will focus upon strengthening capability across the UK & Enterprise Capabilities (EC), enabling expansion into new delivery geographies,  supporting digital and AI-enabled ways of working, and ensuring the business has the talent, capacity and structure required to meet future demand.

This is a senior programme leadership role requiring strong judgment, influence and coordination across multiple workstreams. You'll operate at the intersection of strategy, operations and delivery, ensuring priority initiatives are well defined, sequenced, governed and reported, while providing trusted advice to senior leadership on progress, risks and trade-offs.

You'll work closely with the Business Unit Director, Sub Business Unit Directors, Operations Director and wider leadership team, the role will confirm priority T&D programmes, establish and operate a Programme Management Office (PMO) framework, and, where required, directly manage selected strategic initiatives.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Programme & PMO Leadership

• Establish and operate a T&D PMO to govern priority growth, capability and transformation programmes. 
• Translate strategic objectives into a clear, priorities programme roadmap with defined outcomes, dependencies and success measures. 
• Provide structure reporting, risk management and decision support to the T&D Leadership team.
• Ensure programmes remain aligned to E+E governance, commercial and risk requirements.

Talent & Capability Enablement

• Provide strategic direction for recruitment priorities across the UK and Enterprise Capabilities, aligned to forecast demand.
• Shape and oversee capability development and reskilling initiatives, including training plans and investment priorities.
• Work closely with HR and technical teams to ensure capability plans meet current and future T&D requirements  Support long-term workforce planning rather than short-term resourcing solutions.

Expansion into New Countries of Operation 

• Identify and assess opportunities to establish or scale T&D delivery capability in new geographies.
• Support development of market entry strategies, including phasing, regulatory considerations, partnerships and resourcing.
• Ensure expansion initiatives are commercially viable, appropriately governed and aligned to E+E approval frameworks. 
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support controlled and sustainable growth.

Leadership Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to the T&D leadership team on programme sequencing, capacity constraints and delivery risk. 
• Maintain strong alignment across business Units, Sub Business Units and enabling functions. 
• Serve as a primary coordination point for strategic T&D initiatives, ensuring transparency and shared understanding.
• Escalate issues and decisions appropriately, providing clear options and recommendations.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Proven experience leading complex programmes within the Transmission & Distribution or related infrastructure sectors.
• Strong background in programme governance, portfolio coordination and senior stakeholder engagement. 
• Experience operating within large, matrixed organisations across multiple geographies. 
• Demonstrated ability to balance growth, people, risk and delivery priorities in parallel.
• Sound understanding of digital transformation and AI-enabled delivery approaches in an engineering or infrastructure context.
• Experience in developing and executing market entry strategies for new countries of operation.
• Have a track record of building and managing relationships with SMEs and other strategic partners.
• Have strong judgment, communication skills and ability to influence at senior levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (engineering, finance, business etc.) is preferred.
• MBA or similar post graduate business qualification is advantageous.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Francesca Siddle).

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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