Sponsor Analyst

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. Join Heathrow’s Development team and you’ll be part of this, making every journey better for millions each year, now and in the future. We’re the team that’s responsible for our multi-billion pound programmes to successfully transform Heathrow into an extraordinary airport, whilst delivering outstanding value for passengers and airlines. Development covers project management, process improvement, business change, master‑planning, infrastructure and our ambitious capital investment programmes. This includes Heathrow Expansion, the UK’s biggest privately funded infrastructure project and flagship for delivering lasting economic growth.

The Sponsor Analyst will support the Programme Sponsorship team in ensuring our capital programmes deliver the outcomes and benefits they are designed to achieve. This is a hands‑on role for someone with a strong analytical mindset and an understanding of project or programme delivery, who enjoys working with data, stakeholders and governance frameworks. You will work closely with the Managing Sponsor and Functional Sponsor to develop and manage Benefit Management Plans (BMPs), provide insight on performance, and help keep programmes aligned to our strategic objectives. This role offers the opportunity to influence investment decisions, support the realisation of benefits across Heathrow, and build experience in sponsorship, benefits management and programme governance.

Your role will involve:

• Creating, updating and monitoring Benefit Management Plans (BMPs) at project and programme level, ensuring benefits are clearly defined, baselined and tracked.
• Preparing and supporting monthly Programme Committees, including producing papers, maintaining trackers and capturing actions, decisions and outcomes.
• Maintaining benefits and performance dashboards; analysing project and programme data to identify risks, trends and opportunities, and producing clear, evidence‑based insights.
• Working with project, programme and functional stakeholders to ensure benefits are accurately captured, owned and reported throughout the lifecycle, including post‑project reviews and lessons learned.
• Leading smaller, less complex initiatives or workstreams focused on optimising benefits, helping to resolve issues and constraints with guidance from the Managing Sponsor.

These Skills Are Essential:

• Experience of benefits management, sponsorship, PMO or investment governance in a project or programme environment.
• Knowledge of APM / MSP or other project and programme management frameworks or accreditations.
• Experience supporting post‑project reviews, benefits realisation reviews or continuous improvement initiatives.
• A proactive, curious mindset, with an interest in improving processes and ways of working to maximise benefit realisation.

Our rewards include competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance‑based annual bonuses and our longer‑term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market‑leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too.

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.