Cost Intelligence Manager

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The Cost Intelligence Manager is responsible for:

- Providing advice and support to the business on commercial issues to enhance Highway England’s capability as an informed and intelligent commercial client
- Providing support in evaluating and reporting the cost base, cost drivers and efficiency delivery across capital and revenue programmes within Highways England
- Collecting cost data and ensuring that it is relevant, timely and accurate
- Interpreting cost data and supporting the creation of information and intelligence and recommending how the use of cost intelligence can improve performance and investment decisions
- Identifying and reporting opportunities for delivering increased and sustainable value for money, efficiency and delivery of key performance indicators

What you’ll be doing
- Managing and developing the Cost Intelligence Analysts and Senior Intelligence Analysts as appropriate, and ensuring that they comply with all relevant health and safety policy and processes.
- Leading commercial work streams designed to enhance HE reputation as an informed and commercially intelligent client across capital programmes. This includes:

- Detailed understanding of cost base and drivers
- Intelligence relating to relationship between asset condition, asset characteristics, age and investment decision
- Creation and demonstration of efficiency delivery
- Supporting the design and implementation of robust processes and systems for cost capture and cost base reporting. Supporting assurance of cost intelligence, ensuring that the quality of reporting withstands scrutiny internally and externally.
- Supporting the design and implementation of end-to-end sub processes for cost intelligence, and reporting on opportunities for improving sustainable value for money and investment decisions. Maintaining robust processes for efficiency generation, delivery,assurance governance and reporting
- Interpreting complex commercial data and identifying trends and conclusions based on this analysis.
- Maintaining Unit Cost dashboards
- Support their team in the resolution of ad-hoc reporting requirements from programmes by converting complex data into simple to understand advice.
- Co-ordinating and reporting on cost activities
- Liaising with other members of the Cost Intelligence Team and other stakeholders to improve our service to clients.
- Providing flexible business support, as may be required to deliver projects and work streams to time, quality and within budget.
- Assessing the impact of inflation and other economic factors on our cast base.
- Managing introduction of Project Bank Accounts and ensure process is embedded across new schemes. Acting as a focal point to support and advise on the introduction of Project Bank Accounts

To be successful
- Be willing to studying for an appropriate professional qualification (preferably already having a degree)
- Commercial and financial management understanding
- Economic analysis understanding
- Process and system development experience
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Delivering commercial outcomes
- Advanced data analysis capability

A bit about us
There’s never been a better time to join our Commercial and Procurement team.
We’re a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. You’ll be involved in ensuring that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our roadnetwork.

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.

Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus, access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

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