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Sustainable Travel Manager
About the Role
Pioneering ambition finds its home at Heathrow. Our Heathrow Expansion programme offers a unique opportunity to make a defining contribution to one of the UK’s most transformative infrastructure projects. You’ll help shape a nationwide legacy, enhancing global connectivity, improving passenger experiences, and driving economic opportunities across the UK.
Our goal is to modernise and expand Heathrow—the UK’s sole hub airport—as the nation’s critical infrastructure, while ensuring its continuous operation and safety. This ambitious undertaking demands collaboration, problem-solving, resilience, and a dedication to tackling meaningful challenges. The scope spans securing planning consents, designing a third runway, upgrading terminals, enhancing transport access, and fulfilling environmental and community commitments.
Become part of a diverse, talented team built on mutual respect and excellence. Your contributions will inspire, shaping the future of Heathrow as the world’s leading airport.
Job Description
About the Role
As Sustainable Travel Manager, you will develop and implement future colleague travel strategies to meet the Development Consent Order (DCO) targets for Heathrow’s expansion while advancing existing commitments under the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS). Your focus will ensure alignment between daily operations and expansion programmes, emphasising robust colleague travel data collection, analysis, and reporting to support transport modelling and statutory planning.
This role will also guarantee regulatory and stakeholder assurance on progress toward ANPS targets while alleviating risks, challenges, and opportunities. You must drive the delivery of colleague travel initiatives, including the Way2Go communications campaign and the Colleague Travel Engagement Plan—building stakeholder relationships across the Heathrow campus to achieve outstanding outcomes.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the Colleague Travel Engagement Plan, ensuring compliance with ANPS, DCO commitments, and broader sustainability goals, and contribute to the future Colleague Travel Strategy.
- Develop medium-term plans to reduce colleague vehicle movements using evidence-based strategies like traffic management and behavioural initiatives.
- Define and oversee transport modelling approaches, adhering to Planning Act 2008, EIA Regulations, and DCO compliance.
- Validate transport impacts on highways, junctions, and network performance, ensuring scrutiny-ready reporting.
- Illustrate transport-related expertise in DCO consultations and examinations, translating complex data into clear narratives.
- Support DCO governance, manage risks, and align work with milestones, costs, and measurable outcomes, delivering performance reports.
Requirements
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven expertise in transport planning, sustainable travel, or surface access strategy within major infrastructure programmes.
- Clear understanding of Development Consent Orders (DCO) and statutory planning standards.
- Strong stakeholder engagement abilities, bridging technical and operational challenges.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing senior decision-makers.
- Analytical aptitude to extract insights from data and transform findings into actionable strategies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience in nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs).
- Familiarity with ANPS or similar policy frameworks.
- Experience presenting to regulators or examination panels.
- Proficiency with GIS tools or Power BI for data visualisation.
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About Us
At Heathrow, every day brings fresh, exhilarating challenges—whether it’s the sights of global arrivals and departures or the hum of collaborative industry innovation. This extraordinary setting invites you to grow professionally and purposefully. Our expansive airport, with its culture of passion and sustainability, inspires us to shape a future where aviation thrives and job opportunities abound.
Join Heathrow on this remarkable journey—where we empower a workforce committed to excellence, cutting-edge learning, and personal development, so you can achieve extraordinary things within a vibrant, mission-driven environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries with performance bonuses and long-term investor plans.
- Prodigious annual leave and market-leading pension schemes.
- Access to private health insurance and family-friendly policies.
- A rich menu of wellbeing tools supporting both work and life.
- Continuous career learning and development opportunities.
Working Arrangement
Heathrow offers a hybrid working policy, allowing employees in qualifying roles to spend an average of two days a week working from home—subject to business requirements. Roles may reflect varying schedules, which will be clarified during recruitment.
Candidates must reside in the UK and live within a reasonable commute of Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel Options
Explore Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide to discover efficient and eco-friendly commuting alternatives for all.
Equal Opportunities
We actively encourage applications from diverse talent, reflecting the international, inclusive community we’re honoured to serve. Heathrow provides equal opportunities and champions five diversity networks, celebrating the individuality of every colleague.
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