Head of Scheme Delivery

Job Description

About the role.

If you are motivated by delivering large-scale civil engineering programmes, that will have positive impact on the economic growth of the UK, supported by a large, diverse team focussed on developing capability and future talent, this is your next opportunity!

As Head of Scheme Delivery for the Yorkshire and North East region, you will play a pivotal role in one of our largest geographical areas, with responsibility for a budget of circa £200 million and a complex multidisciplinary supply chain. You will lead on the design and construction of our regional capital investment programmes in line with, delivering an excellent customer experience, quality, budgets and operational key performance indicators. You will also contribute to ongoing development of commercial and strategic imperatives for the region, ensuring we continue to deliver high quality services that meet business and customer expectations.

Passionate about driving improvement, you will be influential in supporting capability development and growing future talent as part of our aim to be a centre of excellence in programme and project management.

You will be a key member of a regional leadership team, setting the vision for the region and ensuring its continued high performance, embodying the right cultural approach.

The successful candidate will be subject to a Security Clearance

• Being part of the regional leadership team, ensuring attainment of key performance indicators, creating a strong culture and inspiring colleagues in the region.
• Lead the detailed design and construction of a portfolio of highway capital investment schemes, ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, and health and safety standards.
• Positive engagement with internal and external regional stakeholders to communicate design requirements and optimise resource management.
• Overseeing contracts with multiple suppliers working, ensuring optimised delivery through engagement and a collaborative framework.
• Ongoing review of programme design and delivery capabilities, identifying improvements and delivering tangible benefits in line with agreed targets.
• Engaging, inspiring and managing a diverse team across organisational boundaries, fostering a high-performance, people-first culture that recognises and develops talent.

About you.

• Proven programme/project management background, ideally with a recognised qualification (e.g., APM)
• Demonstrable evidence of managing delivery of high value capital investment programme portfolios and associated budgets/resource plans
• The ability to lead, engage and inspire diverse teams towards a shared vision and ways of working
• Effective stakeholder management skills, including the ability to develop strong supplier relationships
• An excellent understanding of financial, commercial and contractual principles, with the ability to apply these to manage and influence performance

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's 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. We're 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 you'll 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.

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)

And finally

We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires.

National Highways operates, maintains and modernizes England's motorways and major A-roads keeping people moving and construction sector supplied across the strategic road network.