Energy and Utilities Senior Category Leader

As Procurement Lead – Energy & Utilities, you will play a pivotal role in driving Heathrow's Energy & Utilities strategy, leading procurement activity across some of the airport's most critical operational categories. Responsible for end-to-end category management, you'll shape sourcing strategies, lead complex commercial negotiations and help deliver the resilient, sustainable infrastructure that keeps Heathrow moving.

Working at the heart of Heathrow's Energy & Utilities transformation, you'll partner with senior stakeholders to deliver value, manage risk and support the airport's long-term energy ambitions. Bringing together commercial expertise, market insight and strategic thinking, you'll influence key decisions while helping to shape Heathrow's journey towards a more sustainable future.

• Leading commercial oversight of the Energy & Utilities Programme, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, delivery milestones and operational requirements.
• Developing and evolving category strategies, sourcing pipelines and market intelligence to drive long‑term value, resilience and performance.
• Running complex, end‑to‑end strategic sourcing activity, shaping route‑to‑market strategies and delivering robust commercial outcomes.
• Providing leadership across Energy & Utilities procurement, driving market engagement, supplier capability assessments and forward‑looking strategy informed by regulatory and market developments.
• Negotiating and managing complex commercial agreements, KPIs and value mechanisms, ensuring benefits realisation and continuous performance improvement.
• Acting as a trusted advisor within programme governance, influencing senior stakeholders, ensuring consistent procurement standards and driving collaboration across teams.

• Significant experience leading Energy & Utilities procurement, with strong knowledge of renewable energy markets and regulatory dynamics.
• Proven ability to develop and execute category strategies and lead complex end‑to‑end strategic sourcing.
• Strong commercial and contractual leadership, including negotiating complex agreements and ensuring governance and value for money.
• Programme‑level commercial oversight capability, managing risks, interdependencies and performance across large, multi‑workstream environments.
• Credible senior stakeholder influence, acting as a trusted advisor and aligning diverse groups to procurement and commercial outcomes.
• Leadership experience driving high‑performance delivery, developing teams and fostering collaboration across procurement and wider functions.

Ideally you will have 

• Experience shaping forward‑looking Energy & Utilities strategies informed by market dynamics, regulatory change and innovation.
• Strong understanding of renewable commercial mechanisms such as shaping, imbalance management, sleeving and certificate retirement.
• Familiarity with complex programme governance structures, providing challenge, assurance and commercial insight at senior forum
• Experience partnering with CAPEX teams to ensure effective contract mobilisation, delivery and performance management.