Project Manager

3 days ago

birmingham england United Kingdom National Highways Full time

About the job.

Are you looking to return to work following a career break of 2 or more years? If you are an experienced professional looking to return to the workplace, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. To apply for this vacancy and join our Returners Programme, applicants must be returning from a career break of 2 or more years or have been freelancing or working in a home business during that time.

As a Project Manager within our Operations directorate, you'll plan and manage the delivery of projects, managing the performance of a project team, external contractors, and consultants, and ensuring adherence to effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards across the supply chain and National Highways. You'll be responsible for ensuring a successful delivery of agreed project outcomes and acting in line with mandatory and delegated responsibilities.

We operate on a hybrid working approach with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office. This role can be based from any of our National Highways offices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and agree key project milestones, scope acceptable risks and priorities, ensuring that appropriate governance is in place to achieve successful delivery.
  • Manage, lead, and motivate Assistant Project Managers, ensuring effective performance is delivered and to support their personal development.
  • Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Programme Manager, and other key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects' strategic and delivery objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions that resolve complex issues.
  • Oversee feasibility for proposed projects, to inform the development of business cases and investment proposals.
  • Design, agree, and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes, and comply with locally defined procedures.

About you.

  • Demonstrable experience of managing the development of project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners.
  • Strong collaborator, to gain the involvement and engagement of a wide range of senior stakeholders.
  • Evidence of managing teams to successful development of complex, medium/high risk projects or high-profile projects.
  • Holds or able to attain a certified accreditation project or programme management qualification at IPMA level C: e.g.: APMPQ or APM PPQ, MSP Advanced.
  • Experience of managing business and/or value management cases for new projects through company defined governance, review and approval gates.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers, and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork, and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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