Development Director

Development Director

Location: Aspect House, Blantyre

Salary circa £100,000 per year (DOE), plus an excellent benefits package including: 40% (performance related) bonus per annum, private healthcare (family) and £550 p/m car allowance.

Full Time / Permanent

Flexible Working Pattern

Closing Date: 07/09/25

Help us create a better future, quicker

Role

A key member of the SPT Strategic Portfolio Leadership team, sharing accountability with peers for development and delivery UK’s critical transmission reinforcement projects. The portfolio is high value with complex and critical projects urgently required to deliver the UK’s Net Zero target with a total value of c.£3.75Bn+.

Drive the development of all our large super grid transmission projects ensuring key milestones for land, planning and consenting activities are achieved to meet delivery timescales. The role will cover all large development projects in the Strategic Portfolio aligned with East & West delivery pipelines ranging from 275kV to 400kV.

These include new overlines, new substations, upgrading existing overlines and substations to enable greater capacity of renewable energy to flow to UK’s demand centres.

What you’ll be doing

Define the appropriate allocation for the leadership and management of individual projects / programmes through consideration of level of investment, resource utilisation, geographical location & environment, complexity and risk.

Accountable for setting out the consenting, land and commercial contract strategy.

Responsible for leadership of Strategic Portfolio Development team totalling approximately 25-30 permanent staff and large number of key strategic EPC partners to deliver SPT’s a large portfolio of complex projects across the SPT licence area. The EPC partner teams will include indirect management circa 200+ people including engineering, procurement, commercial, construction resources.

Ensure that project risks are effectively identified and managed to deliver projects in line with budget and to programme. Including share risks with EPC partners. Also, managing and controlling commercial risks on open book contracts.

Drive all opportunities to accelerate timelines in line with OFGEM ASTI frameworks and incentives.

Establish and operate a robust governance framework across the development portfolio to ensure that all regulatory and company-specific reporting and approval processes are followed. In particular, comprehensive records must be maintained of key risks, issues, actions and decisions to ensure that SPT can substantiate its approach to the development and delivery of the programme should this be necessary, for example in a regulatory investigation.

Accountable for budget management across the development portfolio to ensure adherence to all group and regulatory financial controls and reporting requirements.

Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders to positively influence and impact upon the delivery of projects and wider Transmission and business objectives. Including other Government official, agencies and local authorities. Other TO s, OFGEM, NESO and EPC strategic partners.

Leading, developing and motivating a high performing team, with a strong delivery and commercial focus. Holding the project management and project teams to account for critical milestones in planning, consenting and land acquisitions.

Strong leadership of team through planning and consenting processes with public consultation and driving statutory processes ahead of critical path.

Ensure compliance with all management systems required for the professional and efficient delivery of the assigned investment programme, including externally accredited systems for Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality management.

Leading on the identification and prioritisation of continuous improvement initiative within Project Development processes and supporting wider cross organisational improvements to drive improved project outcomes.

Leading the project teams managing transmission connections customers to ensure in service dates are on track, ensure customer securities align with contracting liabilities.

What you’ll bring

A strong commercial focus with significant high CAPEX value project/programme management experience and understanding of large EPC project development and delivery.

An understanding and experience of financial planning for large capital projects.

An in depth understanding of land and planning processes in Scotland, along with statutory processes such as Compulsory purchase orders. Including all Pre-construction activities and tasks required to undertaken as early as possible in project lifecycle ensure robust due diligence on engineering solutions being developed.

Proven experience of successfully leading and developing large multi-disciplined teams.

A strong delivery focus with experience of achieving excellent outcomes in demanding timescales within a high-pressured project environment.

The ability to step back from the detail and focus on the key issues and strategic vision required to ensure project development milestones are achieved.

Be confident and assured in managing multiple project development issues whilst analysing and prioritising key risks and issues for the project on an ongoing basis.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Skilled at developing and maintaining strategic relationships with EPC partners, regulators, leadership and across the industry

Strong knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation, CDM Regulations and practices.

Project Management qualification or extensive capital Infrastructure programme / project management experience.

Minimum Criteria

- Degree level education, preferably in a transferable sector to the role.

- Excellent Stakeholder Management experience

- Successful track record of developing projects through the development phase to handover to delivery

- Previous experience developing large infrastructure projects

- Excellent project leadership skills, across large programmes of complex and high value projects.

- A strong ability to engage, influence and negotiate with EPC partner, other TO s , NESEO, local authorities and OFGEM regulator at director/executive level.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double-match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.

That’s why our benefits include:

- 36 days annual leave

- Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

- Share Schemes

- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding

- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases

- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving

- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans

- Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments

- Life Assurance (4x salary)

- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support

- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously.

We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to

careers@scottishpower.com

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Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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September-7-2025