Ports, Minerals & Coastal Infrastructure Director

Main accountabilities:

Strategic Leadership

Develop and evolve the Ports, Coastal Infrastructure & Marine Minerals strategy based on market insights, policy developments, customer needs and technology trends, in alignment with TCE, Marine and I&E strategy

Position The Crown Estate as a leader across ports, coastal infrastructure and marine minerals and help shape market and policy development

Performance, KPIs & Commercial Outcomes

Own sector performance, setting clear KPIs/OKRs and ensuring delivery against financial, commercial and sustainability objectives

Ensure decisions are evidence-led and optimise long-term value creation

Budget & Investment Responsibility

Hold accountability for sector budgets and resource allocation

Lead the development of business cases to support new opportunities and enabling actions

Work with Commercial, Finance, Investments and Legal colleagues to progress opportunities through the appropriate governance processes

Portfolio & Asset Management

Provide oversight of the Ports, Coastal Infrastructure & Marine Minerals portfolio, ensuring effective lifecycle management, risk mitigation and value optimisation

Prioritise opportunities, assets and resources to support delivery of strategic objectives

Programme Delivery

Lead delivery of the Ports, Coastal Infrastructure & Marine Minerals programme pipeline, ensuring clear governance, milestones and cross-business alignment

Work with SD&O, Commercial, Delivery teams and specialist colleagues to ensure effective execution

Contract & Partner Management

Oversee key partner, supplier, customer and managing agent relationships

Ensure strong commercial discipline, performance management and value for money

Stakeholder & Customer Leadership

Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, regulators, government, system operators and industry stakeholders

Own customer strategy and drive partnership-based solutions that unlock new opportunities, innovation and long-term relationships

Develop and maintain a pipeline of future opportunities through customer engagement, market insight and strategic partnerships, supporting long-term sector growth and value creation

Team Leadership

Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering an inclusive, collaborative and commercially minded culture

Build capability, succession and strong cross-functional working across the business

Risk, Safety & Sustainability

Demonstrate visible leadership in health, safety and wellbeing

Ensure robust governance, compliance and risk management

Embed sustainability, net-zero and nature-positive outcomes into decision making and delivery

One TCE

Contribute to Marine, Infrastructure & Energies and Enterprise priorities

Actively contribute as a member of the Marine Leadership Group

Lead or support cross-business initiatives and promote collaboration across The Crown Estate

Lead or support strategic initiatives across The Crown Estate beyond the role's immediate portfolio, deploying expertise and capability where required to meet evolving organisational priorities

Most important skills based requirements:

Proven leadership experience within ports, coastal infrastructure, marine minerals, infrastructure, marine or related sectors

Strategic leadership experience within infrastructure, marine, energy or related sectors

Strong commercial, financial and customer leadership capability

Experience developing sector strategies, partnerships and complex programmes

Strong stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills

Entrepreneurial and innovative mindset, with the ability to identify emerging opportunities and respond to changing market, policy and customer needs

Experience operating within complex matrix organisations

Experience leading diverse technical and commercial teams

Commitment to health, safety, sustainability and responsible business practices

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.