Location - Birmingham or London based.
Salary - Base salary London: £53,850 pa to c.£67,300 pa depending on skills and experience. Birmingham: £47,450 pa to c.£59,300 pa depending on skills and experience.
In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a Programme Manager at HS2, you will be responsible for the programme management and successful delivery of land requirements for an Area within the Phase; to own the relationship and interface with the relevant Construction/Delivery team.
About the role:
* Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
* Acting as L&P’s relationship manager with Phase or Area Construction/Delivery; working with Project Directors to agree Area wide strategies and priorities.
* Leading L&P’s programme of delivery of land and utilities access, acquisition, possessions and hand back in a matrix environment, to meet the needs of the Construction/Delivery programme; coordinating across the L&P acquisition and land assembly teams to address resource, commercial and other delivery issues.
* Ensuring that change generated from both the Construction/Delivery teams and L&P teams is managed; including scope changes that drive different land requirements and property cost changes that impact on the affordability of the project.
* Providing robust reporting on the progression of Area level deliverables to the Programme Delivery Board and where required more broadly within HS2, on a routine and ad hoc basis.
* Ensuring that L&P programme plans are developed, maintained and analysed in order to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
* Identifying and ensuring that appropriate mitigating actions are implemented to address potential milestone slippages and escalating issues to the Phase Programme Lead as required.
* Interfacing with other HS2 functions including central PMO, community engagement and health, safety and security to ensure the achievement of the broad suite of objectives in relation to the delivery of land.
* Management of compliance with and discharge of Undertakings and Assurances.
* Ensure compliance with the established Data and Information Management responsibilities (e.g. SharePoint folders, etc).
* Adhere to HS2 Ltd’s Health and Safety policies.
About You:
Skills:
* Programme management skills including the ability to deliver complex and changing requirements.
* Ability to identify programme level delivery risks and work with groups of stakeholders to test the relationship between cost and programme in order to determine mitigation plans.
* Communication skills, including managing stakeholder relationships and the ability to adopt different styles with different stakeholders.
* Ability to present strategies and solutions through papers, reports and presentations.
* Able to recognise commercial risks and supply chain behaviours and determine appropriate strategies to maintain delivery.
* Analysis skills, particularly in relation to delivery programmes, cost and risk.
* Ability to assess financial risks, budgets and forecasts and set the direction for how to handle time/cost/quality issues.
* Ability to work effectively across teams and lead delivery through matrixed relationships.
* Innovative and critical thinking skills with relation to managing programme deliverables and competing priorities.
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of best practice project and programme management techniques.
Type of experience:
* Experience within a complex project/programme environment.
* Experience of managing complex and strategic stakeholder relationships.
* Experience of delivering accurate and relevant reporting.
* Experience of implementing analytical techniques to understand data.
* Experience of designing and managing KPIs.
* Experience of managing project teams.
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 support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
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