Executive Director Transport
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Salary: £128,216 – £156,241
Reference: A001052
Status: Open
Introduction from Rob Bridge, Chief Executive, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
This newly created role offers a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the future of transport across our region. Working at the heart of the Combined Authority and in close partnership with organisations across the public and private sectors, the successful candidate will have a significant platform to demonstrate their strategic leadership, deep transport expertise, and ability to set a bold, coherent vision for an integrated transport system that strengthens connectivity and drives inclusive economic growth.
We are proud to start from a position of real momentum. Since the Authority’s formation, our economy has grown by billions, fuelled by a world-leading innovation cluster, globally recognised companies, and an expanding university sector. Yet we know there is more to do. Improving infrastructure, widening access to opportunity, and ensuring sustainable, well‑planned growth are essential if we are to unlock the full potential of our region.
Our Corporate Plan for 2025–2029 sets a clear and ambitious direction, underpinned by a dynamic local growth plan with connectivity at its core. Together, these provide the foundations for a future Cambridge and Peterborough that is even more prosperous, more inclusive, and better connected.
This role will be a pivotal member of my senior management team and a trusted advisor to the Mayor, senior politicians, and partner organisations. We are looking for an exceptional and collaborative leader, someone who can inspire confidence, navigate complexity, and deliver results through strong partnerships and purposeful stakeholder engagement.
If you are motivated by the chance to make a lasting impact, to influence at the highest levels, and to help shape a transport system that works for everyone who lives, works, studies and visits our region, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Rob Bridge,
Chief Executive Officer,
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Getting Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Moving
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is one of the UK’s economic powerhouses. As a net contributor to the Exchequer and home to the most concentrated science and technology cluster anywhere in the world, our region generates £31.4 billion in GVA and continues to attract significant global investment. With Cambridge and Peterborough ranked among the fastest‑growing cities in the UK, we are proud of our success, yet ambitious for much more.
At the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, we are not standing still. Underpinned by bold Mayoral leadership, we have set a clear ambition to triple the size of our economy by 2050. Achieving this means accelerating growth in high‑potential sectors such as life sciences, advanced manufacturing, energy and clean tech, and upgrading our transport and wider infrastructure so that prosperity is felt by residents and communities across the region.
This is where you come in.
We are seeking an outstanding transport leader with deep sector expertise and a proven track record operating at senior level. Whether your background is in the public or private sector, you will bring the strategic capability, political acuity and collaborative leadership needed to unite transport operators, local authorities, business partners and a wide range of stakeholders behind a shared, future‑focused transport vision.
You will shape and lead the strategic framework that delivers improved connectivity across the region, enhancing public transport, upgrading road networks, delivering faster rail connections, creating new stations, and exploring innovative modes including light rail. Your leadership will ensure transport is at the heart of our wider economic and place‑making ambitions.
As a key member of the senior leadership team, you will provide exceptional strategic and organisational leadership for the transport portfolio and act as principal adviser to the Mayor and senior stakeholders. With a collegiate and outward‑facing approach, you will align transport transformation with broader growth plans, opening up access to employment, education, essential services and leisure, unlocking opportunity and supporting shared prosperity.
To find out more about this exciting opportunity, please view the role profile and further information below.
Contact Information:
Zara Bruton
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: zbruton@faerfield.co.ukRoger Russell
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: rrussell@faerfield.co.uk
Indicative Timetable:
Closing date:
Midnight Sunday 19 April 2026Preliminary Interviews:
w/c 4 May 2026Final Interviews:
TBC (Mid June)Please let us know if there are any interview dates within the indicative timetable on which you are likely to be unavailable.
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