Programme Development Manager

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role

National Highways is excited to be looking to hire for a new role of Programme Development Manager within our Operations Directorate in the Southwest Region, to be based from our Bristol location.

The role is offered on an initial 23 month fixed term contract , and will combine a mix of office, home and potential site working.

The key focus of this role is to lead the region’s integrated planning process, using intelligence and insight into customer, social and economic demands, looking out to 20-30 years for development pressures, anticipating future performance of the Strategic Road Network, balancing this with the needs of our physical assets, in order to develop commercially viable 5-10 years forward programmes and solutions that deliver the region’s goals.


What you’ll be leading on

To oversee the development and approval process of the Region’s long-term strategy, including the 5-10 years forward programme of work, and associated budget, ensuring these are commercially viable and aligned to regional drivers such as customer, social, economic, safety, network performance and asset needs. To Ensure that the prioritisation of activities in the 5-10 years forward programme reflects all of the region’s needs, agreed strategy, policies, budget, and efficiency targets. Act as approver for high impact programme change requests. To lead, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders such as such as Local Authorities and LEPs in needs identification and forward planning processes, developing effective and collaborative relationships, ensuring proposed activities and investments contribute to improving the customer experience, safety performance and overall network performance in the region.  Providing leadership, direction and line management for the team, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans, managing the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope. Leading the improvement activities required to ensure performance feedback and lessons learnt are incorporated into future planning processes and deliver tangible planning stability and accuracy improvements. To ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.

To be successful you’ll need 

Demonstrable experience in a leadership role, with extensive team management experience, the ability to lead and inspire specialist teams across organisational boundaries and to drive clarity and focus through times of change and/or ambiguity  Experience in the identification of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information to monitor the business benefits of asset strategies and plans. Experience in the use of investment appraisal and optimisation techniques; value-for-money criteria and financial evaluation methods. Extensive experience in developing and managing annual financial plans, including the development of budgets Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, across all levels, internally and externally.

A bit about us

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.


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