Strategic Programme Manager – Transmission and Distribution

Company Description

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At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be h accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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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 work streams. 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:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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