About the job.
National Highways is excited to be looking to hire for a new role of Programme Development Manager within our Operations Directorate in the South East Region. The key focus of this role is to lead the regions integrated planning process, using intelligence and insight into customer, social and economic demands, looking out to 20-30 years for development pressures, anticipating future performance of the Strategic Road Network, balancing this with the needs of our physical assets, in order to develop commercially viable 5-10 years forward programmes and solutions that deliver the regions goals.
Oversee the development and approval process of the Regions long-term strategy, including the 5-10 years forward programme of work, and associated budget, ensuring these are commercially viable and aligned to regional drivers such as customer, social, economic, safety, network performance and asset needs.
Ensure that the prioritisation of activities in the 5-10 years forward programme reflects all of the regions needs, agreed strategy, policies, budget, and efficiency targets.
Lead, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders such as Local Authorities in needs identification and forward planning processes, developing effective and collaborative relationships, ensuring proposed activities and investments contribute to improving the customer experience, safety performance and overall network performance in the region.
Provide leadership, direction and line management for the team, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans. Managing the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope.
Lead the improvement activities required to ensure performance feedback and lessons learnt are incorporated into future planning processes and deliver tangible planning stability and accuracy improvements.
About you. Demonstrable experience in a leadership role, with extensive team management experience.
Experience in identification of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information to monitor the business benefits of asset strategies and plans.
Experience in the use of investment appraisal and optimisation techniques; value-for-money criteria and financial evaluation methods.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Relevant Civil Engineering degree with relevant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering portfolios
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve Englands motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds
About Us Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. Were proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it then youll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
We offer many different ways to work flexibly and were open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
Community friendly offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include: Right to work check
3 year employment history references
DBS criminal record check
Social media and adverse journalism check
Driving licence check (if applicable)
Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
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