National Highways Looking for Programme Development Manager at Cambridge Full Time

Your New role

Here at National Highways, we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Programme Development Manager to join our team in Bedford. Within this role, you will be leading, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Developing effective and collaborative relationships with regional stakeholder and customer groups, such as Local Authorities and LEPs.

What you’ll be leading on

• Lead the development and approval process of the Region’s long-term strategy, 5-10 years forward programme of work, and associated budget, ensuring these are commercially viable and meet the region’s customer, social, economic, safety and asset needs.
• Ensure that the prioritisation of activities in the 5-10 years forward programme reflects the region’s needs, agreed strategy, policies, budget, and efficiency targets; act as approver for high impact programme change requests.
• Lead, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders in needs identification and forward planning processes, ensuring proposed activities and investments contribute to improving the customer experience, safety performance and overall network performance in the region.
• Lead the development of effective and collaborative relationships with regional stakeholder and customer groups, such as Local Authorities and LEPs, through regular meetings, communication and sharing of information.
• Provide leadership, direction and line management for a team, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans.
• Manage the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope.

To be Successful

• Extensive experience of developing business and asset management plans
• Extensive experience in developing and managing annual financial plans, including the development of budgets
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Demonstrable experience in the application of asset management principles and the development of integrated asset management plans
• Identification of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information to monitor the business benefits of asset strategies and plans
• Relevant civil engineering degree
• Knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

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

And finally

And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date, so we recommend completing your application as soon as possible.

About 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.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

• 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 blended working between base location/home
• 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 plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

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

And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires