Iberdrola
Strategic Projects General Manager
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Strategic Projects General Manager
PLEASE NOTE THIS ADVERT CLOSES THE DAY BEFORE ANY AUTOMATED DATE SHOWN – PLEASE REFER TO THE CLOSING DATE IN THE BODY OF THE ADVERT
Strategic Project General Manager
67 St Vincent Crescent, Glasgow
- Salary (Base): £96,000 – £120,000
- Bonus Potential: 40%
- Additional Benefits: Family Medical Benefit, car allowance
- Closing Date: July 15th, 2026 (advert closes at 23:59 GMT the preceding day*)
- Region: UK – Central/East Scotland, North Wales & North West England
About the Role
As part of the SP Distribution Licence senior management team, this Strategic Project General Manager will provide strategic direction, assurance, and operational leadership across a portfolio of high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with regulatory, customer, safety, commercial, and operational objectives.
This pivotal position supports the rapid delivery of €3bn+ capital programmes under ED2 and ED3, with strong accountability for programme governance, risk decision-making, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Objectives
You’ll be responsible for orchestrating multiple complex projects whilst maintaining efficient and safe delivery. This includes:
- Ultimate governance & leadership of the portfolio, ensuring e.g. scope, cost, schedule, safety, quality and customer commitments are met.
- ** Risk escalation**, trade-off management and interfacing with external stakeholders (e.g. Network Operator Regulatory; Transmission; National Grid; Local Authorities).
- Optimising investments to deliver value-creation, commercial efficiency, and climate alignment.
- Championing a zero-harm culture, ensuring health, safety and environmental standards are met.
- Driving organisational transformation in line with the evolving ED3 Target Operating Model.
Responsibilities
Portfolio Leadership & Strategy
- Set strategic direction and priorities for the portfolio, aligning with business objectives under Iberdrola’s energy transition strategy.
- Provide assurance on investment decisions, ensuring projects are designed, built and delivered with cost-effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and net-zero outcomes.
- Manage portfolios across high-risk geographies, geological, environmental and commercial complexity to ensure delivery readiness.
- Align portfolios with ED3 principles, ensuring designs and deliverables meet commercial, customer and operational needs.
- Oversee complex stakeholder interfaces (Landowners, Developers, Legislators;) while managing consents, land access, and governance.
Programme Governance & Compliance
- Match portfolio-wide assurance with program objectives (safe, timely, effective) and report progress to subsidiary boards/monitoring committees.
- Ensure consistent alignment with RIIO frameworks, Oftel interim principles and health and safety standards.
- Interface directly with licensing, transmission,estates, legal and procurement teams to resolve programme risks, escalate issues, and resolve operational conflicts.
- Drive health and safety standards, rolling out evidence-based solutions for hazard control and workforce safeguarding, particularly during high-risk phases.
- Ensure technical, commercial and compliance deliverables meet design integrity through relationships with program offices, design/engineering and construction teams.
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Accountability & Decision-Making
- Hold delivery managers accountable to safeguarding engagement, metric alignment and integrated delivery.
- Escalate high-impact issues to relevant boards; resolve inter-departmental disputes and foster collaborative outcomes.
- Lead the review of project reviews—Cost Benefit Analysis, Value Engineering, and Iterative Change Routes, ensuring decision matching meets portfolio wide objectives.
- Close aligned regulatory charter gaps at portfolio/ED level, ensuring all projects are active, today’s challenges resolved.
Key Accountabilities
| Expertise Area | Accountabilities |
|---|---|
| Commercial Governance | Approve value realisation opportunities, align portfolios with tender markets, and manage risk trade-offs. |
| Risk & Stakeholder Mgmt. | Oversee stakeholder relations to mitigate delays/value leakage due to contestations, and resolve safety risks |
| Engineering & Process | Deliver network robust, resilient, and efficient investments via engagements with engineering & design team; |
| validate and align policy appropriate progress toward objectives. | |
| Operations & Compliance | Ensure initiatives promote safety and retention, ensuring inter-proj readiness and ease-of-deployment. |
Requirements
Education & Certifications
- Degree in Engineering, Project Management, or related field.
- Supplementary project management qualification (preferably PRINCE2, PMP, Agile preview) highly valued.
- Dual pathology expertise (health & safety PPE/CMS + construction standards) a must.
Technical & Leadership Capabilities
✅ Must demonstrate sound, applied engineering/commercial knowledge across all stages of electricity distribution programme execution. ✅ Expertise in programme planning, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration. ✅ Line management experience in large-scale programme and construction delivery teams (min. 10+ years). ✅ Technical communication skills to confidently engage with customers, regulators, and delivery teams. ✅ Technical trenchwork for intricately connected distribution system design. ✅ Well-developed progressed of Rx Energy Net Zero / Go Everywhere (OPEX) and OFSTREAM methodologies.
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Competencies Required
- Policy Mapping & Governance: Translate compliance and strategy in a Consultative team and stakeholders.
- Innovation Driven Culture: Influence leapfrogging designs or technologies while retaining standards.
- Stakeholder Management: Build trustworthy relationships with key entities to minimise delays.
- Performance Safeguarding: Collaborate test continuously, project emerging issues for correction.
Benefits
At ScottishPower, we pr builds supportive pathways that empower your career and life:
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Retirement Security → "Double company match" to our pension up to 10%.
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Performance Rewards → Market Performance Review to remain one of the only energy companies in AP2 participation.
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Life-stage Support → Holistic care with:
- GYNAE, Prime care medicals (mental and environmental health profiles),
- Health cash schemes, dental/optometry/routine care exclusions.
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**Personal Wellbeing ** → cycle-to-work, tech incentives, upkeep vouchers, EV provisions work-life balance days/tours.
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Financial Welfare → Wise planning support via savings & lending engines (savesmart™). Engineering benefit endowments.
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Travel & Tech Savings → season tickets, subscriptions, mobility support, and retail discounts.
Why Our Energy Transition Matters
Accelerating decarbonisation and clean energy, ScottishPower plays a instrumental part in achieving the 2045 net zero goal. Our long-term commitments bring £10B of reinvestment in renewable energy and distribution projects.
Join A Purposeful Organisation
We strengthen diversity, inclusion, environmental justice, and contribute strategically to Scotland’s climate ambition.
More About Us
- ** ScottishPower CE:** Part of the Iberdrola Group; ranked among global top oil-and-gas sectors:
- renewable output and forward mentoring programs.
- NCL recognised Energy Transition corporate behave top quartile.
Tribex team members enjoy all benefits:
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Additional Notes
- Background checks are a prerequisite.
- Visas or work permits may require sponsor responsibility, with support (Senior customers legally required per company policy).
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