Senior/Principal Consultant - Project Sponsor

Turner & Townsend
Leeds
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Consulting & AdvisorySkills: ["Strategic leadership","Stakeholder management","Written and verbal communication","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Support Programme Advisory clients by acting as a Project/Programme/Portfolio Sponsor across major infrastructure and asset-owning enterprises. You’ll establish strategic direction and accountability for programme set-up and development, manage complex stakeholder relationships, shape bids, and identify business development opportunities. The role also covers business case and funding support, governance and compliance, and oversight of major risks, issues, and change—ensuring benefits are realised and value for money is delivered.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
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Senior/Principal Consultant - Project Sponsor

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Job Summary

Support Programme Advisory clients by acting as a Project/Programme/Portfolio Sponsor across major infrastructure and asset-owning enterprises. You’ll establish strategic direction and accountability for programme set-up and development, manage complex stakeholder relationships, shape bids, and identify business development opportunities. The role also covers business case and funding support, governance and compliance, and oversight of major risks, issues, and change—ensuring benefits are realised and value for money is delivered.
Location: Leeds
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Consulting & Advisory
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Occupy client or service roles involving sponsorship and/or strategic requirements across major programmes and portfolios.
  • •Manage client relationships and identify business development opportunities.
  • •Lead or contribute to bid proposal preparation and manage key bids.
  • •Translate strategic and business needs into defined scope and requirements, holding delivery teams accountable for outputs within cost and schedule tolerances.
  • •Provide governance, assurance and compliance oversight, and direct major risks, issues and change management to implement mitigations and corrective actions.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in a sponsorship role for large-scale infrastructure or capital delivery project, programme, or portfolio, or within a transformative organisation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
  • •Degree level education, membership of a relevant professional body, or equivalent professional experience.
  • •Extensive knowledge of project lifecycle stages, including business case development and mapping benefits/outcomes to define requirements.
  • •Experience navigating planning, regulatory, political and environmental constraints.
  • •Strong commercial acumen, including investment planning, contractual and commercial negotiations, and ownership of financial status.
Experience:InfrastructureCapital deliveryProgramme managementAsset managementTransformational changeMulti-stakeholder environments
Skills:Strategic leadershipStakeholder managementWritten and verbal communicationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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