Programme Development Team Leader

National Highways; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

National Highways seeks a Programme Development Team Leader to manage the structures renewal schemes in the South East region, ensuring effective stakeholder coordination and resource management. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills and experience leading teams, focused on achieving value and innovation in infrastructure projects. This role offers flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Contributory pension scheme

Annual leave starting at 26 days

Life assurance of 4 times annual salary

Health and wellbeing support

Access to discounts platform

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex projects and programmes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
• Extensive use of project management tools including CEMAR and P6.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate development of a 5-10 year work programme.
• Manage project brief and business case approval processes.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects to quality standards.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial acumen

Team leadership

Tools

CEMAR

P6 Programmes

MS tools package

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National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Programme Development Team Leader to project manage and coordinate a programme of Structures renewal schemes through site surveys, feasibility, optioneering and preliminary design stages for the South East region.

You will work with a team of assistant project managers in defining, capturing, and documenting the business objectives for the portfolio of renewal schemes to ensure the best value and whole-life solutions are selected to meet those objectives. The total capital renewal programme spend for the region across the structures portfolio is approximately £60 million per annum.

This position can be based from our Guildford, Maidstone or Basingstoke office.

• Manage and facilitate the development of the region's 5-10 years forward programme of work, coordinating inputs and activities across multiple regional teams (e.g. Scheme Delivery and Asset Engineering Team).
• Ensure all relevant activities required in the development of the forward programme are well planned, managed and delivered within expected timescales and quality standards.
• Provide the tools and specialist resources required to manage and embed programme development in the region's investment and scheme planning activities.
• Ensure business outcomes/ changes are clearly articulated, and that all necessary stakeholders (e.g. engineering, design, delivery, PMO etc.) are kept informed and consulted on solutions as required.
• Manage the project brief and business case approval process, liaising with stakeholders (e.g. Asset Engineering team, Scheme Delivery teams) to manage timescales and impacts on the forward programme planning process.

About you.

• Experience working collaboratively with internal & external stakeholders to build and deliver a robust, cost-effective programme of works
• Experience of project/programme management across a portfolio of schemes
• Extensive experience of using project management tools, ideally including CEMAR & P6 Programmes and MS tools package
• Good commercial and financial acumen, including driving innovation and adding value to programme of works
• Experience in leading a high performing team to achieve deliverables to programme and budget.

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.

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.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

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)

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