Programme Delivery Lead

2 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom SSE Full time

**About the Role**

**Base Location**: Perth, Glasgow, Reading, Oxford or Portsmouth | We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception.

**Salary**: £61,100 - £91,700 + car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.

**Working Pattern**: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract | Full Time | Flexible First options available

Distribution has an ambitious and balanced plan to power communities to net zero, and to support the delivery of this we are looking to recruit an equally ambitious Programme Delivery Lead to optimise, deliver and embed the full scope of our transformation portfolio. The role will work with the relevant business and project teams to ensure integrated and successful delivery of business change activities across disciplines.

**About the role**:
The main purpose of the role is to lead and manage the delivery of strategic business transformational change and improvement programmes, and other strategic initiatives mapped to business objectives that improve organisational performance, ensuring that these are delivered on time, to quality and budget across Distribution.

The Programme Delivery Lead will be responsible for realising the objectives, key results and other value targets defined as part of the Programme and must have the ability to manage dependencies of varying complexities.

Using the best practice methodologies for their programme and ensuring effective control over costs and resourcing enabling the delivery of business outcomes.

Key to the role is to manage the operational aspects of the delivery teams involved, ensuring risk, legal, security and other compliance requirements are met.

You will lead collaborative working across all disciplines involved, provide effective communications to complex stakeholder groups, to remove blockers, proactively manage risk and balance objectives as priorities change.

You will provide thought leadership and challenge in current operating methodologies to ensure we have a holistic focused programme view to build a coherent and integrated view of activities, interdependencies, and challenges.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to work across teams and engage with the right stakeholders to gain the level of input and expertise required to progress our change goals with the resilience and determination needed to deliver, and have:

- Programme management with good knowledge of programme methods (e.g. MSP) and techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes in an operational/infrastructure/energy type environment
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.
- Sound ability to problem solve and pre-empt problems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

**About our Business**

SSEN Distribution powers 3.8 million homes and businesses in communities across central southern England and the north of Scotland. Our team of more than 3,500 people keep customers connected to a safe and reliable supply of electricity whilst developing the flexible networks that are vital to achieving net zero. By enabling a smarter, more resilient electricity network we're ensuring our local communities continue to receive the power they need, both now and in the future. We are consistently investing and innovating to improve network resilience and future-proof power supplies for life's changing demands, from rolling out large scale EV charging schemes to supporting small community generation projects.

**What's in it for you?**

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**What happens now?**

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.

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