Strategic Route Planning Manager

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role

The Customer, Strategy and Communications (CSC) directorate-Network Planning Division are growing and this is a great opportunity to join the successful Strategic Route Planning team producing Route Strategies as part of the wider Road Investment Strategy3 (RIS 3 - 2025-2030) and to ensure their outputs form a part of investment priority setting within the wider business. We are developing and enhancing our capability to manage our relationship with the government, key internal and external stakeholders andthird-party projects by making route strategies more digital, being more collaborative and interactive in National Highways Spatial Portal. As a result, we are looking to recruit a Strategic Route Planning Manager to play a key part in the Strategic RoutePlanning Team for the Midlands area.

What you’ll be leading on

Planning, managing a programme of work and creating content in relation to the development and production of the final Route Strategies for the Midlands area, including working with other teams on wider network planning projects, including strategic studies,and major scheme sponsorship,
Work within the wider Strategic Route Planning team to create a compelling online digital presence for Route Strategies that is embedded in the business and repeatable through subsequent RIS cycles.
Maintain oversight and manage project interdependencies with the wider Road Investment Strategy and the work of the Network Planning Division including the interface with wider study teams within National Highways,
Prepare necessary change control documentation, complying with relevant requirements and evaluation to amend existing contracts and/or recommend appointment of Consultants,
Prepare project and programme reporting including financial and budgetary information for all key reporting lines.

To be successful

Demonstrable experience of working successfully and dynamically in a Programme or Project Management environment, preferably in a strategic, policy or transport planning role,
Experience of at least one of the following: Delivering large and complex road feasibility studies (or similar), Sponsoring major infrastructure schemes, The Development Consent Order / Hybrid Bill processes or Developing strategies for infrastructure organisations.
Knowledge of the role infrastructure plays at all levels in facilitating strategic development and planning the SRN generally and route based.
Experience of working with and managing external supply chain/Consultants in terms of project delivery and performance.
Evidence of partnership working with a collaborative approach with strong stakeholder management, engagement and influencing skills.
Knowledge of the Strategic Road Network and how it operates, in particular for the Midlands area.
Exceptional presentation and communication skills to convey complex information to a wide audience and experience of managing and influencing a range of stakeholder relationships. Some knowledge of the ESRI ArcGIS software platform for creating compelling digitalcontent and/or experience in the use of the National Highways Spatial Portal (ArcGIS Enterprise).

A bit about us

The Network Planning Division is the centre of expertise for planning the network’s future. We are responsible for the SRN’s long-term strategy by taking a comprehensive, consistent, and holistic approach. We work closely with other teams across the CSCdirectorate as well as the rest of the Company, to consider the impact of future technology; facilitate economic growth; develop schemes for investment in future Road Investment Strategy periods; and ensure that the SRN is mitigated effectively in relationto major external projects.

About Us
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 dobetter 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.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. 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.

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