Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Total Rewards package

Continuous learning

Job summary

Ernst & Young is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Supply Chain & Operations in infrastructure projects. Based in Manchester with flexibility for UK-wide work, you will drive transformation, governance and senior client delivery across major assets and networks.

You will shape operating models, commercial strategies, and sustainable change programmes while mentoring leaders and expanding EY's infrastructure footprint in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience leading operating models and transformation programmes in infrastructure or related sectors.
• Experience in commercial and procurement strategy development within infrastructure projects.
• Ability to lead contracting approaches and governance of contract performance and change (NEC, FIDIC, JCT).
• Experience leading sourcing and category management with client decision-making.
• Leadership in operations and asset management for major networks or assets.
• Policy development leadership in infrastructure contexts.
• Experience owning and quality assuring business cases (Green Book) and deliverability narratives.
• Designing end-to-end sustainable change programmes including net zero transitions.
• Programme and project leadership across traditional and agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow senior client relationships across supply chain, operations and sustainability in infrastructure.
• Lead major workstreams with direction, governance and multi-stakeholder outcomes.
• Provide senior day-to-day leadership, steer delivery, resolve issues, and prioritize decisions.
• Set outputs to be insight-led, coherent, and partner-ready in quality.
• Accountable for delivery excellence, risk management, and robust controls.
• Lead and develop Managers and Senior staff into future leaders.
• Originate and lead business development, shaping pursuits and proposals.
• Drive capability development with repeatable assets and viewpoints.

Skills

Operating model & delivery

Commercial & procurement strategy

Contracting leadership (NEC/FIDIC/JCT)

Sourcing & category management

Supply chain mapping

Operations & asset management

Policy development leadership

Green Book business case ownership

Sustainable change programmes

Programme & project leadership (agile

Education

Job description

Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure

Location: Manchester

Other locations: Anywhere in Country

Date: Sep 23, 2026

Requisition ID: 1695803

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,riskand 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 theyseekto deliver,operateand 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 toultimately finda better way.

Your key responsibilities

Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice, and people who are passionate about goingabove and beyondto 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’llcombine 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,operationsand/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-orientedand consistently “partner-ready” in quality

Take accountability for delivery excellence and risk,anticipatingissues 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 & operations offering

Strengthen EY’s profile in the UK (and global) infrastructure market, through thought leadership, external engagement, and account/sector leadership activities

Your experience

An understanding of the UK infrastructure sector is critical to this role, whether from experience working in industry,governmentor a management consultancy environment. Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors is preferred: transport, energy, defence, utilities, digital and social infrastructure.

Senior Managers are expected to bring strong depth in at least one of the areas below and breadth across several others, including experience leading complex workstreams / multiple workstreams, andoperatingcredibly with senior stakeholders:

Shaping and leading operating model, delivery model and transformation programmes in infrastructure or a related sector, through ambiguity and changing priorities

Leading commercial and procurement strategy development and execution, including integrating supply chain considerations into delivery and outcomes

Advanced contracts capability, including leadership of contracting approaches, negotiation support, and governance of contract performance and change (e.g., NEC, FIDIC, JCT)

Leading sourcing / category management and supply chain mapping activity, including setting direction, assuring quality, and driving client decision-making

Operations and asset management leadership for major assets and networks, including improvement initiatives and performance management

Policy development leadership in infrastructure contexts, including engaging and aligning stakeholders where appropriate

Owning and quality assuring HMT Green Book business cases, including strategic alignment, value for money, affordability, and deliverability narratives

Designing and leading end-to-end sustainable change programmes, including net zero / net negative transitions and practical implementation pathways

Programme and project leadership across traditional and agile environments, including governance design, integrated planning, riskmanagementand benefits realisation

Qualifications

Our Senior Managersdemonstratestrong written and verbal communication skills and can engage credibly with senior client stakeholders. They are proactive, resilient self-starters whobring strategic judgement, deliveryleadershipand commercial awareness — shaping high-quality outcomes under time pressure and through ambiguity. They are inclusive leaders who develop other leaders and set the standard for quality across teams and engagements. Specific qualifications you must have are:

Experience within the infrastructure or related sector, with depth in at least one of: supply chain, operations, sustainability in an infrastructure context

The ability to write to an exceptional standard, whilst being fluent/native in English (additionalmajor languages desirable)

Ability to adapt style and approach to suit different contexts and environments, including senior/executive audiences

Demonstrable experience leading leaders (e.g., managing Managers / leading multi-workstream teams), with a strongtrack recordof coaching and developing others

A willingness to travel and work across the UK and potentially overseas

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionalscan be requiredto travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitiveremunerationpackage. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and withFlexEYyou can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts,offersand promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning:You’lldevelop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’llprovide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’llgive you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’llbe embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior tofinalizingyour application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actionsthat promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.

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