Head of Monitoring

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom High Speed Two (HS2) Full time

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 a Head of Monitoring & Reporting and Analytics you will take the lead for developing reporting, analysis and insights on delivery performance against baseline across the programme, supporting Executive and Board level decision making. The role will also be responsible for defining reporting policies, processes, standards and templates, ensuring these are effectively executed across the organisation, and supporting development and delivery areas through the provision of specialist resources, services and advice.

**About the role**:

- To be accountable for developing and leading the implementation of a monitoring, reporting and analytics strategy for HS2 Ltd.
- To be responsible for contributing to a ‘Project Management Handbook’ for the organisation, defining and articulating the monitoring, reporting and analytics standards, policies, and processes across the organisation.
- To be responsible for developing and leading relationships with key stakeholders, including the Department for Transport, wider government stakeholders, the supply chain and third parties, maintaining high levels of transparency and cooperation to ensure that HS2’s performance is understood and accurately reported.
- To be accountable for leading the Monitoring, Reporting and Analysis team, setting objectives, reviewing performance and ensuring that employees have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver the team’s objectives.
- To be accountable for the deployment of specialist resources and expertise in monitoring, reporting and analytics across all of HS2, to enable the timely and accurate reporting of performance data within the Project Controls teams and corporately.
- To be accountable for the delivery of accurate and timely insights, trend analysis and reporting on delivery performance against baseline and forecast (incl. EVM analysis) across Phase One, Phase Two, Corporate functions (Infrastructure, Land &Property).
- To be responsible for acting as the senior point of contact within the PMO with accountability for the development of accurate reports and insights to support Sponsor, Board, Executive level and delivery team decision making.
- To be responsible for ensuring monitoring, analytics and reporting capability and industry best practice is disseminated across the organisation, through training and development, lessons learnt and sharing ways of working.
- To be responsible for the financial management of budgets relating to risk management, contributing to the effective financial planning and control of the PMO budgets.
- Actively promoting and embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

**About you**:
**Skills**:

- Clear Direction - Defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and assessing data, defining strategies and supporting rationales. Ability to direct the broader team on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues.
- Complex problem solving - identifying complex problems; reviewing, analysing and interpreting a wide range of data to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. Ability to assimilate large volumes of detail, drawing out the key issues in a clear and concise way, suitable for all audiences.
- Prioritisation - able to manage and plan multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders.
- Communication - effective and proven communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and influence colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels, including the Board and Senior Executives.
- Stakeholder management Skills - including the ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of Reporting and Analysis in a large project/programme
- Knowledge of Project Controls and Reporting systems in order to build regular reports and undertake trend analysis.

**Type of experience**:

- Experience of operating effectively as a senior leader, undertaking significant value and high profile programmes of work.
- Experience of leading and developing a team within a major project or programme.
- Experience of developing and implementing performance reporting and analysis within large scale, complex project.
- Recognised and relevant professional qualification, such as Association for Project Management (APM) or equivalent



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