Manager, Supply Chain & Operations, Infrastructure
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Manager Supply Chain and OperationsInfrastructure
Manchester London Birmingham Edinburgh Glasgow
The UK governments 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 uncertaintyriskand volatility.
Sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in delivering this strategy and in overcoming these a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UKs 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 deliveroperateand 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 governments 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 aManageryoullbalance internal and external responsibilities across client delivery business development operationalexcellenceand people development.
Buildmaintainand strengthen client relationships acting as a trusted advisor in at least one of: supply chain operations sustainability within the infrastructure sector
Lead one or more workstreams end-to-end owning the workplan dependencies RAID and delivery of outcomes within your remit
Manage day-to-day delivery with the client and EY team coordinating cross-functional inputs (often acrossdifferent partsof EY) to ensure pace and alignment
Shape and quality assure client-ready outputs (reports documents presentations) synthesising analysis into clear insights and practical recommendations
Own quality and delivery excellence for your workstream(s) proactivelyidentifyingrisks and taking corrective action to exceed client expectations
Coach and develop junior team membersprovidingon-the-job guidancefeedbackand oversight to build capability and confidence
Play an active role in business development coordinating proposal inputs shaping approach and storyline and supporting tender responses
Contribute to internal practice development building infrastructure-relevant capability and collateral (with particular focus in supply chain and operations)
Support EYs market positioning in UK infrastructure by contributing to points of view credentials and go-to-market activities aligned to priority accounts and sectors
Your experience
An understanding of the UK infrastructure sector is important to this role whether from experience working in industrygovernmentor a management consultancy environment. Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors is preferred: transport energy defence utilities digital and social infrastructure.
Managers are expected to have demonstrable experience in at least one of the areas below and working knowledge across multiple others including applying this experience in a client delivery context (e.g. leading workstreams shaping outputs managing stakeholders):
Leading the design and/or implementation of operating models delivery models and transformations in infrastructure or a related sector
Owning workstream-level delivery of commercial procurement and supply chain strategies (from analysis through to recommendations and implementation planning)
Hands-on contracts experience including managing contract development and change and applying knowledge of common forms (e.g. NEC FIDIC JCT)
Delivering strategic sourcing / category management activity and supply chain mapping translating insights into practical interventions
Supporting improvements to operations and asset management for major assets and networks
Contributing to policy development and stakeholder engagement in infrastructure contexts
Developing HMT Green Book-aligned business cases including options benefits costsdeliverabilityand value for money considerations
Designing and delivering end-to-end solutions that enable sustainable change including net zero / net negative transitions
Programme and project management delivery including governance plansRAIDand benefits tracking across traditional and agile environments
Qualifications
Our Managers have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can engage confidently with senior stakeholders. They are proactive energetic self-starters who bring structurepaceand judgement to delivery. They are comfortable leading teams managing competing priorities and producing highquality outputs to challenging deadlines. Specific qualifications you must have are:
Experience within the infrastructure or related sector
The ability to write to a high standard being fluent/native in English (additionalmajor languages desirable)
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to adapt style and approach to suit different contexts and environments
Demonstrable experience leading workstreams / small teams including planning work directingactivityand reviewing outputs for quality
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 discountsoffersand promotions. Plus we offer:
Continuous learning:Youlldevelop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
Success as defined by you:Wellprovide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
Transformative leadership:Wellgive you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
Diverse and inclusive culture:Youllbe embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
If you candemonstratethat you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.
The exceptional EY to build.
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Please note:Prior tofinalizingyour application you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that 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 ask because it matters!
InfrastructureConsulting2026
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