Delivery Business Lead

Severn Trent; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Delivery Business Lead to spearhead capital delivery initiatives in the utilities sector. This role promises a dynamic environment where your leadership will drive significant improvements in project execution and team performance. With a focus on large-scale, complex projects, you'll collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure successful delivery. Join a team that values innovation and community impact, and take your career to new heights while making a real difference in environmental outcomes and community health.

Benefits

31 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual bonus scheme

Car allowance

Private medical insurance

Leading pension scheme

Sharesave scheme

Electric vehicle scheme

Family friendly policies

Two volunteering days per year

Qualifications

• Experience in asset-intensive industries like utilities or rail.
• Proven track record of managing large, complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end delivery of capital programs.
• Drive efficiency and performance improvement in project delivery.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Leadership

Financial Management

Team Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

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What do you get if you cross an award winning, innovative, water company and over 300 dedicated team members? Our Capital Delivery team of course!

Our ambitious and innovative projects (all 5000+ of them) help to combat the challenges of waste and water infrastructure, flooding and water quality. Be a part of something bringing benefits to our communities, health outcomes and environment.

It could be the biggest challenge of your career. If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you.

Severn Trent’s Capital and Commercial Services Business Area is gearing up to deliver AMP8, delivering over 1bn of capital spend per annum to achieve our most ambitious capital programme ever at 6.5bn of enhancements work, benefiting both our customers and the environment.

This role can be based from any of our Capital & Commercial hubs in Coventry, Derby or Shrewsbury.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Reporting directly to the Programme Director, the Delivery Business Lead, will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of a capital programme across Severn Trent’s waste infrastructure project portfolio to time, to quality and to budget, with individual projects ranging up to hundreds of millions of pounds. Forming a crucial part of our Capital Delivery leadership team, you will drive real efficiency through sustained performance improvement and innovative ways of working, helping us to achieve our most ambitious 5-year period ever!

You will provide inspirational leadership to deliver a step change in performance to secure delivery of a large scale and complex capital portfolio ranging in value from £400m - £600m. Whilst instilling industry best practise, you will utilise our specialist in house design and commercial teams, as well as our supply chain partners to effectively ensure our complex programmes are delivered within the required criteria. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will grow the businesses capacity and capability to help shape our longer-term strategy ensuring your teams are set up for success entering the next business planning period.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

Ideally you will have experience in an asset intensive industry, such as water, rail, highways, nuclear, utilities, telecoms or similar in a large matrix organisation. You will have a proven track record of successfully taking ownership and managing the end-to-end delivery of large, complex multi-disciplinary projects, and experience of working collaboratively with contract partners, internal and external stakeholders and a multi-disciplined team.

You will have a proven track record in developing and delivering through highly capable, high performing teams and a record of operating in an asset intensive industry where programme activity, innovation and process are key. You will have experience in developing talent, building high performing teams and fostering a performance driven culture. You will be able to work collaboratively with peers, utilising your relationships and experience to drive best in class performance. You will also have proven experience delivering strong financial and operational success in multi-faceted organisations.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involve. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?

We do more, because we care.

What’s In It For You

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.

Here’s Some Of Our Favourites

• 31 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 additional days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to 20% of base salary per annum based on company performance)
• Car allowance of £5,208 paid in monthly instalments
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year
  
  

What’s Next

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. If you’re not too sure about what you need to do, or have a question about the role before applying, please do reach out to our amazing team of recruiters at [e-mail].

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Utilities

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