Location: Birmingham
Base salary: £54,878 pa to £64,562 pa
Benefits: Flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top of base salary and fully pensionable.
Senior Programme Manager – Provides professional project and programme management leadership for the delivery of the transformational Cost Assurance strategy across the HS2 Programme.
Responsibilities
* Own and manage the Cost Assurance programme, including scheduling, tracking, reporting, RAID management and benefits management.
* Produce regular progress reports for all Cost Assurance workstreams in conjunction with workstream leads.
* Lead and drive scheduling activities of the team to ensure that activities are well planned, resourced and aligned with strategic goals.
* Develop and measure Cost Assurance capability against maturity criteria.
* Lead and coordinate communication from the team to the rest of the business and into the supply‑chain.
* Lead risk management to ensure Cost Assurance activity adequately addresses threats/opportunities and proactively identifies new risks.
Qualifications
* Ability to develop, plan and integrate projects across multiple functions/teams to optimise costs and project benefits.
* Understanding of project/programme management knowledge aligned to the level of APM Project Manager (advanced).
* Experience of the entire project lifecycle including planning, procuring, developing and implementing project activities.
* Ability to identify necessary information, manage its gathering and synthesis, facilitate option identification and apply judgement based on logic and reason.
The post‑holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship licence from the Home Office. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application. The application process includes a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage.
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