Head of Scheme Delivery

2 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

**Your new role**

If you are motivated by delivering large-scale civil engineering programmes, that will have positive impact on the economic growth of the UK, supported by a large, diverse team focussed on developing capability and future talent, this is your next opportunity

As Head of Scheme Delivery for the Yorkshire and Northeast region, you will play a pivotal role in one of our largest geographical areas, with responsibility for a budget of circa £200 million and a complex multidisciplinary supply chain. You will lead on the design and construction of our regional capital investment programmes in line with, delivering an excellent customer experience, quality, budgets and operational key performance indicators. You will also contribute to ongoing development of commercial and strategic imperatives for the region, ensuring we continue to deliver high quality services that meet business and customer expectations.

Passionate about driving improvement, you will be influential in supporting capability development and growing future talent in our aim to be a centre of excellence in programme and project management.

You will be a key member of a regional leadership team, setting the vision for the region and ensuring its continued high performance, embodying the right cultural approach.
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**What you’ll be leading on**
- Being part of the regional leadership team, ensuring attainment of key performance indicators, creating a strong culture and inspiring colleagues in the region.
- The detailed design and construction of a portfolio of highway capital investment schemes, ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, and health and safety standards
- Positive engagement with internal and external regional stakeholders to communicate design requirements and optimise resource management
- Development and embedding of best practice communications and engagement approaches to positively influence customer engagement and satisfaction
- Developing effective and collaborative supplier relationships to support robust management and assurance of performance and risk
- Overseeing contracts with multiple suppliers working through a collaborative framework
- Ongoing review of programme design and delivery capabilities, identifying improvements and delivering tangible benefits in line with agreed targets Engaging, inspiring and managing a diverse team across organisational boundaries, fostering a high-performance, people-first culture that recognises and develops talent
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**To be successful in this role you’ll need**
- Proven programme/project management background, ideally with a recognised qualification (e.g., APM)
- Demonstrable evidence of managing delivery of high value capital investment programme portfolios and associated budgets/resource plans
- The ability to lead, engage and inspire diverse teams towards a shared vision and ways of working
- Effective stakeholder management skills, including the ability to develop strong supplier relationships
- A commitment to driving a continuous improvement culture and developing capability

**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.


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