Senior Manager, Infrastructure, Change and Organisation Design, People Consulting UK in London

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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. Sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in delivering this strategy. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s most transformational and iconic projects.

The opportunity involves advising clients on their most complex sustainable infrastructure challenges, which spans multiple sectors and competencies. We are focused on growing our sustainable infrastructure programme and large-scale transformation delivery across our wide range of clients within various sectors, including Government, Transport, Energy and Utilities, Housing and Telecommunications. We want people who are passionate about sustainability and climate change and who are keen to help clients realise decarbonisation and energy transition ambitions.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Active member of the wider leadership team to define project scope and execute delivery with clients, the consulting teams and wider stakeholders.
• Independently analysing complex problems and presenting solutions to clients and the wider team.
• Own and manage relationships with senior infrastructure clients to contribute to business development and enhancing EY’s brand and reputation.
• Structuring and managing projects and programmes of transformation.
• Managing project commercials, risks and issues.
• Bringing expertise from previous experience to test, shape and challenge our approaches to project delivery.
• Leading teams and developing our people to help them reach their potential.
• Building strong relationships, especially with peers and leaders from client organisations and across the EY network.
• Building our business and generating profitable revenue by winning work through fostering strong client relationships, account leadership and leading/contributing to proposals.
• Contributing innovative ideas to expand our People Consulting service & Infrastructure service offerings to clients and positively impact client engagements.
• Keeping up to date on relevant infrastructure market trends, key functional and technical skills and proactively sharing this knowledge with the infrastructure community.
• Being an active leader in the EY Workforce Advisory Community and the EY UK&I Infrastructure Community, assisting with the integration and inclusion of team members and operating as a part of a high performing team.
• Visibly demonstrating our values through your day-to-day behaviours and challenging where these are not demonstrated in others.
• Contribute to EY’s positioning across the UK (and global) infrastructure market, through an active social media presence, and thought leadership development.

Skills and attributes for success include:

• A strong understanding of, and interest in, the UK Infrastructure sector including HMG commitments such as National Infrastructure Strategy and Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.
• Knowledge of sustainability and climate change challenges across industries.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience in managing the commercial side of projects.
• Expertise in business development, including identifying opportunities, shaping and selling propositions and contributing to pipeline development.
• High in emotional intelligence, able to build trusted relationships through effective communication and stakeholder management.

To qualify for the role, you will need:

• This role is available in our EY London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Glasgow offices.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience either within the infrastructure sector or in a consultancy role leading complex organisational design transformations and end-to-end business change.
• Able to manage the client change and organisation design journey by developing and delivering digital and/or organisational strategies supported by integrated change experience and organisation design roadmaps and business cases.
• Demonstrable commercial management skills and acumen across large programmes, including contribution to account growth, pipeline development and sales activity.

What we offer includes:

• Continuous learning opportunities including monthly Lunch and Learns and dedicated infrastructure in-person learning days.
• Success as defined by you, providing tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, embracing who you are and empowering you to use your voice.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.