Managing Sponsor

This role sits within Heathrow’s Development team and focuses on achieving clear programme outcomes and benefits. As Managing Sponsor, you will represent sponsorship on a day‑to‑day basis within one or more development programmes, helping ensure agreed outcomes are delivered and sustained once changes move into everyday operations.

The role bridges business priorities with programme delivery. It ensures benefits are clearly defined, tracked and realised, while supporting smooth transition into Business As Usual.

Responsibilities

• Define, track, monitor and report programme benefits across the programme(s) lifecycle.
• Represent sponsorship within programme leadership, keeping decisions aligned to agreed outcomes.
• Enable effective governance by supporting timely decisions, approvals and assurance activities.
• Identify and address risks, constraints or trade‑offs that could affect outcomes or benefit delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience working within programme or project sponsorship in a complex, regulated environment.
• Practical experience defining, tracking and realising benefits across a programme lifecycle.
• Understanding of programme governance, assurance and decision‑making frameworks.
• Experience supporting business change, operational readiness or transition to Business As Usual.
• Ability to present complex information clearly to support informed decisions.
• Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable

• Familiarity with recognised programme or project frameworks.
• Experience within large‑scale infrastructure or operational environments.

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow. 

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions. 

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow.  Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow. 

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.
 
Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.   
Join Heathrow’s Development team and you’ll be part of this, making every journey better for millions each year, now and in the future.   
We’re the team that’s responsible for our multi-billion pound programmes to successfully transform Heathrow into an extraordinary airport, whilst delivering outstanding value for passengers and airlines.   
Development covers project management, process improvement, business change, master-planning, infrastructure and our ambitious capital investment programmes. This includes Heathrow Expansion, the UK’s biggest privately funded infrastructure project and flagship for delivering lasting economic growth.  
It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious projects that make a lasting impact, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.   
Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.