Description
Join Heathrow's Development team as a Managing Sponsor, working on multi-billion-pound programmes to transform Heathrow into an extraordinary airport. You will represent sponsorship on a day-to-day basis within one or more development programmes, ensuring agreed outcomes are delivered and sustained.
Job Overview As Managing Sponsor, you will focus on achieving clear programme outcomes and benefits. You will bridge business priorities with programme delivery, ensuring benefits are clearly defined, tracked, and realised, while supporting smooth transition into Business As Usual.
Principal Accountabilities
- Define, track, monitor, and report programme benefits across the programme(s) lifecycle.
- Represent sponsorship within programme leadership, keeping decisions aligned to agreed outcomes.
- Enable effective governance by supporting timely decisions, approvals, and assurance activities.
- Identify and address risks, constraints, or trade-offs that could affect outcomes or benefit delivery.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
- Experience working within programme or project sponsorship in a complex, regulated environment.
- Practical experience defining, tracking, and realising benefits across a programme lifecycle.
- Understanding of programme governance, assurance, and decision-making frameworks.
- Experience supporting business change, operational readiness, or transition to Business As Usual.
- Ability to present complex information clearly to support informed decisions.
- Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Ideally
- Familiarity with recognised programme or project frameworks.
- Experience within large-scale infrastructure or operational environments.