Do you want to lead the execution of one of GE Vernova’s most strategically important UK transmission portfolios?
GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional Portfolio Execution Director – National Grid Account to join our Grid Solutions team based in Stafford, United Kingdom.
This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape how we execute a portfolio of complex energy infrastructure projects supporting National Grid and the transformation of the UK transmission network.
You will bring together project delivery, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, commercial and functional teams to strengthen execution across the portfolio, remove delivery barriers and ensure our commitments to the customer are delivered successfully.
With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it.
Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety and quality of life.
Our Electrification businesses provide products, services and advanced technologies that help modernize grids, enable renewable integration and strengthen energy systems.
From grid infrastructure and power conversion to software and storage solutions, we are helping build smarter, more resilient electricity networks around the world.
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.
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:
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 advantageous, but we are most interested in your overall experience, leadership capability and professional achievements.
This is an opportunity to influence how GE Vernova executes a strategically important portfolio of UK energy infrastructure projects at scale.
You will have the opportunity to shape delivery strategy, strengthen the way different projects and functions work together, build trusted senior customer relationships and create greater consistency across complex programmes.
Whether you are already leading a major portfolio or are an experienced programme or project executive ready to take broader ownership, this role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact on infrastructure that is critical to the UK’s energy transition.
This is a permanent position based from our Stafford office in the United Kingdom.
The role will involve engagement with project teams, customer stakeholders and delivery organisations across the National Grid portfolio.
Every action shapes our future. That’s why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.
Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while reducing the trajectory of climate change emissions is a global priority, and we take our responsibility seriously.
Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to help power the rest.
If we want the future of energy to be different, we need people who want to
help shape it
Together, we are the Energy of Change.
We believe strong careers are built through varied experiences, meaningful connections and continuous development.
We’re committed to providing you with the tools and opportunities to shape a career journey that reflects both your personal and professional goals.
Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you as you navigate that journey.
We also prioritize fair pay, performance-based rewards and wellbeing programmes for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can continue evolving while sustainability remains at the heart of what we do.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive working environment where different perspectives, experiences and ideas are valued.
GE Vernova is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for applicants and employees and to creating a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to contribute, develop and succeed.
Join GE Vernova and help shape the future of the UK’s energy infrastructure.
Due to the volume of applications we receive, we may only be able to contact candidates selected to progress to the next stage of the recruitment process.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world.
It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Wind, and Electrification -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come.
GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.
Together, we have the energy to change the world.
