National Highways Looking for Regional Benefits and Value Manager at Birmingham Full Time

Your new role

National Highways have a unique opportunity for a Regional Benefits and Value Manager to join our Regional Investment Programme (RIP) for our Major Projects (MP) directorate.

Applying industry leading techniques and best practices, the post holder will contribute significantly to the successful delivery of the Roads Investment Programme. The post holder will lead Benefits and Value Management activities for a regional portfolio of Major Projects and they will work collaboratively with the delivery teams to strengthen project business cases and maximise benefits and efficiencies in order to ensure our projects deliver best value for money solutions.

The contractual office for this role will be Birmingham, however National Highways do offer flexible working, in agreement with your line Manager.

What you’ll be leading on

1. You will play a key part in developing our approach to delivering Value for Money for each of our major projects in your regional office.
2. You will work with our analytical and stakeholder teams to help develop a strong evidence base to allow our project sponsors to make effective and informed decisions.
3. You will facilitate discussions on the purpose, scope and objective of our projects, ensuring that the objectives are SMART and in line with our stakeholders’ needs.
4. You will focus minds on the outcomes of our projects and reflecting these in benefits realisation plans, ensuring we have an effective plan for monitoring and evaluating those outcomes.
5. You will act as a subject matter expert on the benefits that our projects are delivering, providing key input to the development of our business cases and working across the rest of the business to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and certainty of delivering those benefits.
6. You will work with our stakeholders to help ensure that our investments in infrastructure align within the long term regional and national plans, policies and strategies.
7. You will be part of a team helping National Highways mature its approach to delivering Value across its investment programme.

To be successful you’ll need

• Knowledge or a good understanding in quantifying the benefits and impacts for infrastructure projects.
• A keen interest in building the case for a scheme and knowledge of project and programme business cases.
• Proven experience of building strong working relationships and influencing projects, both in and outside the immediate team.
• It is desirable to have experience in Benefits management, business risk and project risk management.
• It is desirable to have knowledge of applying Value Management including the use of decision-making tools in infrastructure projects.

A bit about us

Major Project Regional Investment Programme is responsible for the development and delivery of junction improvements, bypasses, projects of National significance and major infrastructure projects. We deliver capital improvements that will help to grow the economy and deliver wider social benefits and improve infrastructure.

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