Delivery Business Lead

Severn Trent Plc; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days holiday

Annual bonus up to 20%

Car allowance £5,208

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme matching up to 15%

Sharesave

Electric vehicle scheme

Retail offers

Family friendly policies

Two volunteering days

Job summary

Severn Trent Plc is seeking a Delivery Business Lead to manage end-to-end delivery of a capital programme worth hundreds of millions. Based in Coventry with travel to Midlands offices, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team, collaborate with internal/external partners, and drive performance improvements across the portfolio.

You will oversee the delivery of large-scale projects, manage budgets, and align with strategic objectives, enabling Severn Trent to achieve its ambitious AMP8 targets and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering end-to-end capital programmes in asset-intensive industries.
• Ability to lead large multi-disciplinary teams and drive performance improvements.
• Proven track record of stakeholder engagement with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end delivery of a capital programme from plan to budget.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams across multiple offices.
• Collaborate with design, commercial, and contract partners to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Program delivery

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Civil engineering

Contract management

Education

Degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

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 is to be based in Coventry, but will require travel to other offices across the Midlands on occasion.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Reporting directly to the Strategic Lead, the Delivery Business Lead, will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of a capital programme across Severn Trent’s 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 engineering-focused 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 civil engineering 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.

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

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