Position summary

GHD, a global professional services company in water, energy, resources, environment, and infrastructure, is seeking a Technical Director – Consulting within its Commercial Advisory business to build and lead a new Strategy & Transformation – Energy Transition capability. This senior, market-facing leadership role helps organisations across energy, utilities, infrastructure, and the public sector respond to the strategic, commercial, regulatory, and operational challenges of the energy transition, shaping and winning complex consulting engagements.

Why this role matters

GHD is establishing a distinctive advisory offering that supports clients through decarbonisation, infrastructure investment, energy system transformation, and organisational change. This role influences the future direction of GHD’s energy consulting business while delivering meaningful outcomes for clients and communities and supporting more sustainable, resilient, investable energy systems.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the capability by providing senior leadership for the Strategy & Transformation – Energy Transition practice, defining market priorities, propositions, and growth opportunities.
• Win strategic work by originating, shaping, and winning consulting engagements across energy transition strategy, commercial advisory, energy policy, system planning, infrastructure development, and decarbonisation programmes.
• Deliver complex engagements from opportunity identification through to delivery, ensuring excellence in quality, commercial performance, and client outcomes.
• Advise senior clients as a trusted advisor to executives, regulators, government bodies, investors, major infrastructure owners, and utilities, providing strategic oversight across operating model design, investment planning, implementation roadmaps, governance, risk, and benefits realisation.
• Grow client relationships by supporting account growth, pipeline development, major pursuits, and long-term partnerships.
• Integrate teams by bringing together multidisciplinary teams across advisory, engineering, environment, digital, and project delivery to develop commercially effective solutions, and leading high-quality deliverables (business cases, transformation strategies, investment plans).
• Represent GHD through industry events, thought leadership, partnerships, and business development, and mentor and develop consultants and advisory leaders.

Team and stakeholders

The role sits within GHD’s Commercial Advisory business, engaging executive-level client stakeholders (executives, regulators, government bodies, investors, infrastructure owners, utilities) and mobilising multidisciplinary teams across advisory, engineering, environment, digital, and project delivery.

Key details

This is a hybrid role (minimum three days per week at a GHD office), preferably based in GHD’s London office, with other UK offices available (Job Identification 27563). Benefits include 25 days’ paid leave with the option to purchase more, matched pension contributions, and family-friendly flexible working.

Requirements

• Typically 12+ years of relevant consulting, advisory, or senior industry experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure, sustainability, policy, commercial strategy, or business transformation.
• Strong credibility operating at executive and board level, able to engage, influence, and challenge senior decision-makers across complex stakeholder environments.
• Proven track record of originating, shaping, winning, and delivering major consulting engagements or transformation programmes within energy, infrastructure, or regulated sectors.
• Deep understanding of the commercial, regulatory, policy, and operational forces driving the UK energy transition, including decarbonisation, energy system planning, resilience, infrastructure investment, and delivery risk.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex client challenges into compelling propositions, investment cases, and practical implementation programmes.
• Experience developing strategic client relationships, growing pipelines, and supporting business development in a consulting or advisory environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing project performance, contractual arrangements, and business outcomes.
• Experience building teams, developing capability, and growing consulting practices or advisory businesses.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills, including presenting to executive audiences and leading senior workshops.
• A collaborative leadership style able to mobilise multidisciplinary teams and build consensus.