Utilities Portfolio Lead

The successful Utilities Portfolio Lead will oversee a portfolio of projects within the utilities sector, encompassing transmission, substation, and distribution initiatives. This key position involves managing large-scale programs, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

The Utilities Portfolio Lead will serve as the primary liaison for clients, providing updates on project progress, costs, schedules, and risks.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee a portfolio of transmission, substation, and distribution projects for public and investor-owned utilities.
• Manage large-scale programs, guaranteeing that scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations are met.
• Develop recovery plans to mitigate risks and maintain stakeholder-approved project parameters.
• Monitor program performance using dashboards, KPIs, and other tracking tools.
• Implement quality control processes to maintain high standards in project deliverables.

Stakeholder & Resource Management:

• Serve as the primary client interface, reporting on project progress, costs, schedules, and risks.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among clients, project teams, subcontractors, and internal support teams.
• Supervise and mentor a diverse team of project managers, schedulers, controllers, and multi-discipline engineers.
• Assess and manage staffing requirements strategically, ensuring the right talent mix is available for project demands.

Strategic Growth & Leadership:

• Contribute input and influence the strategic growth of the organization.
• Help shape the culture of a dynamic team across the service territory.
• Lead the development and delivery of service offerings.
• Provide insights into new and emerging perspectives and point of view (POV) on core service IT offerings, emerging technologies, and practices.
• POV on Business, Cloud, and Digital Transformations
• Offer patterns, best practices, and white papers on IT strategy and service offering related areas.
• Capture work products, insights gained, and intellectual property created.
• Directly contribute to capability development.
• Expand, publicize, and support continuous development through the firm's knowledge management system.
• Stay informed on developments in IT practices and emerging technologies.
• Actively work to update/upgrade the level of expertise or knowledge.
• Ability to share his/her expertise with others on the team and with the client.

Essential Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in the utilities sector, particularly in project management roles.
• Proven track record of team leadership and talent acquisition.
• Deep expertise in commercial consulting within the transmission and distribution (T&D) utility industry.
• Strong program and account management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Sales and Marketing Strategies:

• RFP and Client proposal development.
• Ability to lead and drive compelling business cases and client presentations.
• Contribute towards points of view (POVs) through blogging, white papers, and other thought leadership.
• Lead work streams to aid the development of new business opportunities.
• Conduct market/client research and industry analysis.

Measures of Success:

• Execute consulting engagements on all levels.
• Realize benefits and meet the agreed time, budgetary, and quality measures.
• Achieve revenue contribution and utilization targets.
• Contribute to practice and capability development.

We offer great opportunities within a dynamically growing consultancy. If you are looking for a progressive company where you can truly shape our future and the future of our clients, then you are the right individual for this opportunity.

At our consultancy you will discover a truly global culture, highly dedicated and motivated colleagues, a cooperative work environment, and interesting training opportunities.