Strategic Portfolio Leader, Energy & Grid Projects

Jobtailor; Stafford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Portfolio Lead to drive execution strategy for National Grid projects from its Stafford office. You will build senior stakeholder relationships, govern portfolio performance, and align cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and commercial activities.

The role requires significant leadership in large-scale energy and infrastructure programmes, with deep knowledge of high-voltage transmission and EPC environments, plus a

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience across complex energy, transmission, EPC or major infrastructure programmes.
• Experience leading portfolios, programmes or multiple major projects within a complex engineering or infrastructure environment.
• Strong knowledge of high-voltage transmission, power infrastructure or comparable large-scale EPC projects.
• Experience across engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.
• Strong customer-facing leadership experience, including senior stakeholder relationships and complex project or programme escalations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution strategy across the National Grid portfolio.
• Build senior relationships with National Grid stakeholders and act as an escalation point.
• Drive portfolio governance and visibility of performance, risks, dependencies, resources and priorities.
• Align project management, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, commercial and other functional teams.
• Identify and remove systemic delivery barriers.
• Strengthen execution capability through best practices and improved project methodologies.
• Challenge and support project leadership teams on plans, assumptions, risks and recovery strategies.
• Develop portfolio-level approaches to engineering, construction, commissioning, suppliers, contractors and resource capacity.
• Enable capability reuse, knowledge sharing and improved management of common suppliers and delivery challenges.
• Promote continuous improvement using lessons learned and portfolio insight.
• Provide senior oversight of portfolio performance in a complex matrix organisation.
• Ensure delivery strategy and organisational capability meet customer expectations.

Skills

Portfolio Management

Project Management

Engineering Methodologies

Construction Management

Commissioning Processes

Procurement Strategies

Operational Improvement

Risk Management

Dependency Management

Performance Governance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Master’s Degree in Management

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Portfolio Lead to drive execution strategy for National Grid projects from its Stafford office. You will build senior stakeholder relationships, govern portfolio performance, and align cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and commercial activities.

The role requires significant leadership in large-scale energy and infrastructure programmes, with deep knowledge of high-voltage transmission and EPC environments, plus a