Performance Manager

HS2 (High Speed Two); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits fund

Competitive benefits

Pensionable base salary

Job summary

HS2 Ltd seeks a Programme Performance Manager to deliver performance insights and manage programme-wide performance data. You will work with the HoPP to identify optimisation opportunities and mitigate risks, shaping decisions on drawdown and delivery timing.

The role emphasizes data specification, interpretation, and collaboration across delivery teams, PMO, and controls functions to improve programme outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in senior project management or controls roles within an infrastructure delivery environment.
• Experience leading teams or initiatives and ready to take on greater responsibility and exposure.
• Experience working in or with project controls functions.
• Experience supporting change events within a project environment.
• Experienced in the use of Microsoft applications (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) or equivalent.
• Experience participating within governance meetings with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assure and integrate programme wide performance insights.
• Coordinate and manage mission level risks; provide analysis for drawdown of phase contingency.
• Develop intelligence to support performance management and integration.
• Analyse and correlate performance against baselines to enable challenge and optimisation.
• Lead assurance, prioritisation and profiling in annual Performance Measurement Plan.
• Analyse risks and opportunities to mitigate and optimise Delivery into Service dates.
• Define and manage inputs from delivery teams, PMO and controls resources.
• Conduct horizon scanning and right-to-left planning for strategic risks and opportunities.
• Raise recommendations on active risk management.
• Promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.

Skills

Clear Direction

Stakeholder management

Communication & influence

Facilitation

Controls understanding

Problem Solving

Process implementation

Data analysis & presentation

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

Base salary: £54878 pa to £64562 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

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 the Programme Performance Manager you will report directly to the Head of Programme Performance (HoPP) to provide performance insights that enable Best for Programme Recommendations (considering time, cost and quality). Through analysis of performance data, the Programme Performance Manager will be responsible for data specification and interpretation, identifying potential optimisation initiatives that mitigate risks and enhance outcomes.

About the role:

• To be responsible for the assurance and integration of programme wide performance insights
• To be responsible for manging and coordinating 'mission level' risks and provide analysis and insights to enable decisions on drawdown of 'phase level' contingency
• Responsible for the development of intelligence that supports both performance management and integration
• To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of performance against baselines, providing analysis and insights that enable challenge, mitigation and optimisation of programme delivery
• Lead assurance, prioritisation and profiling in establishment of the annual Performance Measurement Plan
• Responsible for analysis to identify risks and opportunities to mitigate and optimise the Delivery into Service [DiS] dates to enable the PPD to recommend changes
• Define and manage inputs from delivery teams, PMO, matrixed controls resources as required to understand programme performance
• To be responsible for horizon scanning and right-to-left planning for early identification of strategic risks and opportunities, to optimise the delivery plan to make best for programme decisions
• Raise recommendations on active risk management
• 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

About you:

Skills:

• Clear Direction - Ability to give clear direction, defining prioritizing objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales
• Stakeholder management - Ability to manage stakeholders; building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate
• Communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and work with teams from different departments
• Facilitation Ability to manage workshops to solve critical problems and provide clear direction to team members on the actions needed to manage and mitigate critical issues
• A technical understanding of controls disciplines with the ability to interpret performance data
• Problem Solving - Ability to identify multifaceted problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Ability to implementation of processes, procedures and guidance improving programme outcomes
• Data Analysis and Presentation - Ability to analyse and interpret data and produce accurate timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management
• Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a major programme
• Knowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including under standing of cost delivery, schedule targets
• Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the workflows of communications between contractor and client

Type of experience:

• Experience in senior project management or controls roles within an infrastructure delivery environment
• Experience of leading teams or initiatives and ready to take on greater responsibility and exposure
• Experience working in or with project controls functions
• Experience of supporting change events within a project environment
• Experienced in the use of Microsoft applications (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) or equivalent
• Experience of participating within governance meetings with senior stakeholders

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. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

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. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

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.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.