Job at a glance
As Portfolio Execution Director , you will act as the senior execution lead for GE Vernova's National Grid portfolio. Rather than focusing on the delivery of one individual project, you will take a broader view across the portfolio - creating alignment between project teams and functional leaders, strengthening governance, identifying common risks and dependencies, and ensuring the organisation has the capability and capacity required to deliver.
Working within a complex matrix organisation, you will provide senior-level oversight of portfolio performance and act as a key escalation point for significant execution challenges. You will also build trusted relationships with National Grid stakeholders, helping ensure our delivery strategy, ways of working and organisational capability continue to meet customer expectations., Set and lead the execution strategy across the National Grid portfolio, promoting consistent and effective delivery across multiple complex infrastructure projects.
Build trusted senior relationships with National Grid stakeholders and act as a key point of escalation for portfolio-level delivery matters. Drive portfolio governance , ensuring clear visibility of project performance, risks, dependencies, resource requirements and critical delivery priorities. Align cross-functional teams across project management, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, commercial and other key functions.
Identify and remove systemic delivery barriers , including resource constraints, duplicated activity, competing priorities and cross-project dependencies. Strengthen execution capability by identifying best practice, improving project methodologies and creating greater consistency across the portfolio. Challenge and support project leadership teams where plans, assumptions, risks or recovery strategies require senior intervention.
Develop portfolio-level approaches to engineering, construction, commissioning, suppliers, contractors and resource capacity. Create greater organisational synergy , enabling teams to reuse capability, share learning and improve the way we manage common suppliers and delivery challenges. Promote continuous improvement , using lessons learned and portfolio insight to strengthen future project execution.
You will be a collaborative and commercially aware leader who is comfortable operating across complex organisations, influencing senior stakeholders and bringing together multiple teams around a common delivery strategy. You are likely to bring significant leadership experience across complex energy, transmission, EPC or major infrastructure programmes, together with: 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 the project lifecycle, including engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning. Strong customer-facing leadership experience, including managing senior stakeholder relationships and complex project or programme escalations. The ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without relying solely on direct line authority.
Experience identifying and managing portfolio-level risks, dependencies, resource constraints and opportunities for operational improvement. Strong technical and commercial understanding, with the ability to translate complex customer and project requirements into effective execution strategies. Experience working with major contractors, suppliers and multidisciplinary delivery organisations. Familiarity with National Grid projects, standards, safety requirements or ways of working would be highly advantageous, including exposure to areas such as National Grid Safety Rules and Contractor Design and Engineering processes.
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical, engineering or management discipline would be