Business Development Consultant

OVE ARUP AND PARTNERS HONG KONG LIMITED (Philippines Branch); Manila; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arup’s Manila Energy team seeks a Technical Leader in Transmission & Distribution to guide complex projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to a sustainable pipeline of work. The role balances senior technical authority with market-facing responsibilities and collaboration across utilities and regulators.

Based in Manila, you will set technical direction, oversee governance, and support early client engagement, proposal development, and mobilization of delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Transmission & Distribution within the Energy team, setting direction and governance.
• Support business development: client engagement, opportunity identification, and bid technical leadership.
• Lead and mentor engineers, while participating in complex, high-risk assignments as needed.
• Collaborate with utilities, regulators, and developers to articulate robust, integrated solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Client engagement

Proposal development

Grid codes & standards

Power systems engineering

Transmission & distribution

Regulatory understanding

Mentoring engineers

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering / Power Systems

Job description

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach have set us apart for 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup’s Manila Energy Business is strengthening its Transmission & Distribution (T&D) capability to support grid expansion, resilience, and decarbonization across the Philippines and the wider Asia Pacific region.

The Opportunity

This role is primarily a technical leadership role within the Energy team, with a strong and complementary capability to originate, shape, and win work in the transmission and distribution sector. The position balances senior technical authority, people leadership, and market facing responsibilities, ensuring Arup is recognized as a trusted technical advisor while securing a sustainable pipeline of T&D work.

Embedded within the Manila Energy Business and the wider Infrastructure practice (EWR+T Infra cost center), the role focuses on providing technical leadership across Transmission, Distribution and Renewable plant projects, while actively supporting business development activities, including:

• Overhead and underground transmission lines, substations, switching stations, and grid interconnections.
• Distribution network reinforcement, modernization, and expansion projects
• Grid related interfaces for renewable plant developments, including renewable plant developments

You will act as a technical leader for T&D within the Energy team, setting technical direction, providing governance and assurance, and mentoring engineers, while also playing a key role in winning work through early client engagement, technical positioning, proposal development, and mobilization of delivery teams. Hands on delivery involvement will be selective and focused on complex, high risk, or strategically important assignments.

The role involves close collaboration with utilities, system operators, regulators, and developers, as well as Arup’s global Transmission & Distribution, Power Systems, Advisory, and Infrastructure specialists. You will lead the development of robust, innovative, and integrated technical solutions, ensuring Arup’s technical excellence is clearly articulated, differentiated, and credible in the market.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

Knowledge & Experience:

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong technical background in transmission lines, substations, grid interconnections, distribution networks and renewable energy development projects
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership and governance rather than purely task based delivery.
• Experience contributing to and leading technical inputs for proposals, strategies, and client presentations.
• Membership, or eligibility for membership, of relevant professional institutions.
• Sound understanding of applicable grid codes, standards, regulatory requirements, environmental approvals, and OH&S obligations.
• Background in subsea transmission lines is not required but would be considered a significant advantage.
• Preferably 10 -15+ years’ experience in the power and energy sector, with 5+ years in business development or commercial role

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership for transmission and distribution projects and teams.
• Proven capability to support and lead business development activities, including opportunity identification, client engagement, proposal development, and bid technical leadership.
• Strong ability to shape robust technical solutions, define scopes, manage technical risk, and articulate value to clients.
• Commitment to developing technical depth and professional capability within teams.

Planning & Organizing

• Ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary technical and pursuit teams across locations.
• Experience developing opportunity strategies, technical delivery approaches, and resourcing plans for grid and network infrastructure.
• Strategic awareness of regulated utility, transmission, and distribution markets.

Thinking & Decision Making

• Sound technical judgement combined with commercial awareness in complex and regulated environments.
• Ability to make and defend technical decisions and influence client and internal stakeholders at senior levels.
• Continuous improvement mindset applied to technical delivery and bid performance.

Commercial Acumen

• Strong understanding of commercial drivers for T&D projects and utility business models.
• Ability to contribute to fee strategies, risk pricing, and commercial negotiations from a technical leadership perspective.
• Oversight of technical inputs to the financial performance of strategically important pursuits and projects.

Building Customer/Client Relationships

• Client first, technically credible approach focused on long term partnerships.
• Ability to position Arup as a trusted technical authority and delivery partner in T&D.
• Effective leverage of Arup’s global expertise to build and sustain client confidence.

Communication

• Confident communicator with senior technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Representation of Arup as a technical leader at industry, utility, and regulatory forums.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues and influence outcomes.

Team Working & Leadership

• Acts as a senior technical leader and mentor within the Transmission & Distribution discipline.
• Reviews, challenges, and guides technical work to ensure quality, consistency, and innovation.
• Champions collaboration, inclusion, and professional development across the Energy team.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact Sean Wang to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.