Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure

Senior Manager, Supply Chain and Operations, Infrastructure London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh The UK government’s “UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy” sets out a long-term, cross-sector plan to drive economic growth, deliver net zero, and improve public services. With a £725 billion commitment, the strategy prioritises stability, private investment, and robust delivery across transport, energy, digital, water, housing, and social infrastructure, giving confidence and direction across the entire supply chain. However, infrastructure supply chain and operations are facing unprecedented global uncertainty, risk and volatility. Sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in delivering this strategy and in overcoming these challenges. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s most transformational and iconic projects. The opportunity Take your career to the next level and join a high performing and inclusive team, working collaboratively with some of the largest infrastructure projects in the world as they seek to deliver, operate and transform. Specifically, our teams focus on the following core areas: The initiation and successful delivery of transformation programmes, tackling our clients’ most pressing and complex initiatives Sustainable infrastructure to support the government’s green infrastructure plan and ambition to deliver net zero to the UK The involvement in early stage, large scale infrastructure project development activities, as well as ongoing support, to drive more successful infrastructure project delivery We are focused on growing our supply chain capability in the infrastructure market across a wide range of clients within a variety of sectors, including transport, energy, defence, utilities, digital and social infrastructure. We value curious thinkers who have the courage to lead, great communicators who do not take themselves too seriously, flexible collaborators who build relationships based on doing the right thing, and innovative problem-solvers who use their experience to ultimately find a better way. Your key responsibilities Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice, and people who are passionate about going above and beyond to improve our working world, unifies us as a team. This is crucial in enabling us to consistently deliver or exceed on our commitments. As a Senior Manager, you’ll combine deep delivery leadership with commercial ownership, senior client influence, and people leadership – helping shape both client outcomes and the growth of the sustainable infrastructure practice: Own and grow senior client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor across supply chain, operations and/or sustainability in the infrastructure sector, with responsibility for expanding impact and scope Lead major workstreams or multiple workstreams, setting direction, governance and outcomes, and ensuring successful delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder environments Provide senior day-to-day leadership on engagements, steering team performance, resolving delivery challenges, and aligning stakeholders around clear decisions and priorities Set the standard for insight-led client deliverables, ensuring outputs are strategically coherent, decision-oriented and consistently “partner-ready” in quality Take accountability for delivery excellence and risk, anticipating issues early, managing escalation effectively, and protecting quality through robust controls and review Lead leaders (develop Managers and Seniors), building high-performing, inclusive teams, and actively mentoring others to create the next generation of leaders Originate and lead business development activity, including shaping pursuits, leading proposal strategy, and converting pipeline within the infrastructure market Drive practice and capability development, building repeatable assets, methods, and points of view that strengthen our infrastructure supply chain