Manager, Infrastructure and Change, People Consulting UK

Manager: Sustainable Infrastructure and Change, EY People Consulting UK

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself.

The UK government’s “UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy” sets out a long-term, cross-sector plan to drive economic growth, deliver net zero, and improve public services. With a £725 billion commitment, the strategy prioritises stability, private investment, and robust delivery across transport, energy, digital, water, housing, and social infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in delivering this strategy. Building a career in this sector offers diverse opportunities on some of the UK’s most transformational and iconic projects.

The opportunity

Advising clients on their most complex sustainable infrastructure challenges, is a core focus for EY, and something that spans multiple sectors and competencies. We are focused on growing our sustainable infrastructure programme focus and large-scale transformation delivery across our wide range of clients within a variety of sectors, including Government, Transport, Energy and Utilities, Housing and Telecommunications. We want people who are passionate about sustainability and climate change and who are keen to help clients realise decarbonization and energy transition ambitions.

We are looking to grow our overall presence across the infrastructure sector and be involved in the design, development and delivery of significant programmes under the recently published UK Infrastructure 10 Year Strategy.

We are seeking Manager level consultants with experience in leading business change and organisational design in Infrastructure. As a Manager, you will be a leader in a client facing team, working with leading organisations on the most complex transformation programmes to deliver better business, environmental and people outcomes for long-lasting results. Now more than ever, clients want to understand how change affects their people. As part of the team, you will be skilled at helping clients take a ‘human centred’ approach to achieve successful transformation. Using the latest innovations, you will partner with clients on their biggest challenges to find people-centric solutions that work for their organisation - from implementing culture, technology and people change to communication strategies and leadership development.

Joining Infrastructure in 2026 as a Manager gives the right candidate the opportunity to be involved in our exciting growth journey, providing opportunities to deliver transformative work that is absolutely delivering social value, a more sustainable future, and helping to deliver our commitment to building a better working world.

Your key responsibilities

• Management of EY teams to develop and implement solutions to help enable the successful delivery of Infrastructure transformation projects
• Independently analysing complex problems and presenting solutions to clients and the wider team 
• Structuring and managing projects for transformation programmes, including shaping and leading change workstreams or smaller change engagements and projects
• Managing project commercials, risks and issues 
• Delivering presentations and leading client meetings and workshops with senior clients to provide recommendations and solutions to their problems 
• Management of client stakeholders to achieve alignment and buy-in to a solution or particular direction 
• Owning and fostering trusted relationships with senior clients that contribute to enhancing EY’s brand and reputation 
• Identifying future opportunities within the client or broader Infrastructure sector 
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff 
• Contributing to business development, using knowledge of the Infrastructure market to draft innovative proposals 
• Contributing to internal practice development, around the Infrastructure market in general but also within change and our Workforce Advisory Practice  
• Contributing to EY’s positioning across the UK (and global) infrastructure market, through an active social media presence, and thought leadership development 

 Skills and attributes for success

• A strong understanding of, and interest in, the UK Infrastructure sector including HMG commitments such as National Infrastructure Strategy and Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. 
• Knowledge of sustainability and climate change challenges across industries 
• Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors: Energy, Government, Transport, Power and Utilities
• Experience working in industry, government or a management consultancy environment 
• Ability to analyse data and deliver insightful, practical solutions 
• Experience of managing teams, including internal staff, clients and wider stakeholders 
• Experience of delivering presentations to senior audiences 
• Skills and experience in Portfolio, Programme and Project Management 
• Strong commercial acumen 
• Experience of working within both traditional and agile project environments 
• The confidence to build lasting relationships and influence senior colleagues and clients in leading roles 

 To qualify for the role, you will need:

• This role is available in our EY London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds offices
• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification or experience
• Minimum 5 years experience within the infrastructure sector, with specific experience in one or more sub-capabilities (e.g. business change strategy development and delivery, organisation design, workforce planning)
• Experience of leading end to end change or organisational design on projects or workstreams on transformation programmes, with responsibility for delivery, client management, senior business lead management, commercials, leading a team.

Ideally, you will also have:

• Experience of working on large scale digitally enabled infrastructure programmes 
• An ability to adapt and learn in an innovative environment 

• An understanding on how Agentic AI can add value to businesses and the Infrastructure sector

What we look for

• Professionals who want to work on large‑scale change programmes
• Individuals who can demonstrate real impact and bring curiosity, structure, and energy to client delivery
• People who want to grow their consulting skills and contribute to developing EY’s change capabilities

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

 What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: opportunities including monthly Lunch and Learns and dedicated infrastructure in-person learning days mean you’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!