Programme Manager, Transformation
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Job Description
Location: This role can be based in either Birmingham or London
Salary : Base salary: £54,500- £68,150 (Birmingham) or £63,050-£78,000 (London) depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a Programme Manager- Transformation at HS2 you will manage a programme of activities to enable the contract award, mobilisation, handover and transition to respond to the requirements of the programme lifecycle, the delivery strategy and commercial strategy to support the organisation in future planning so that it has the appropriate organisation structures, capability and skills to operate.
About the role:
• Lead strategic change programmes, integrating activities to ensure operational readiness and support the Executive and Senior Leadership Team to have the capability to discharge their obligations and achieve strategic objectives and priorities.
• Set the strategy, process and tools for delivering organisational transition and future capability requirements to achieve commercial and programme objectives.
• Support Delivery Directors in managing upstream commercial and capability risks where there is financial exposure around readiness, transformation and change activities,
• Lead engagement with Delivery teams and their supporting functions to build credible transformation and readiness plans which align with approved and assured readiness processes
• Manage governance and control around organisational transition states and change within the corporate control framework
• Drive decisions forward by establishing and utilising relevant Forums/Design Authorities and processes for escalating capabilities risks, managing dependencies across readiness programmes and conflicts, enabling successful delivery of readiness and transformation programmes.
• Build, develop and lead relationships with key stakeholders including the Executive team, Senior Leadership Team and wider assurance bodies to provide confidence that HS2 has the operating model and organisational capability in place to manage strategic risks to the operating model at each stage of the programme lifecycle.
• Lead and champion lessons learnt and continuous improvement activities to continue to evolve readiness processes, tools and template to meet both current and future organisational capability requirements.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI
About You:
Skills:
• Programme management - the ability to plan and integrate multiple projects to achieve project benefits manage risks and dependencies. Skills profile aligned to Association for Project Management (Advanced) or equivalent.
• Complex problem solving - identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders.
• Conflict and Stakeholder management - reads situations quickly, good at focused listening; can find common ground and get cooperation and construct outcomes with minimum noise.
• Decision quality - gathering and synthesising information, identifying options and applying sound judgement based on logic and reason, making sure of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data.
• Clear direction - defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales.
• Influencing & Negotiating - the ability to influence and negotiate with internal functions and external supply chain partners and reconcile functional requirements with delivery demands.
• Developing & Maintaining Relationships - Ability to establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to resolve emergent risk situations.
Knowledge:
• Knowledge of major projects or programmes (policy, development and/or delivery)
• Awareness of the technical elements of the relevant scope of work within the overall HS2 programme, including interdependencies.
• Management of complex interfaces with multiple parties, preferably within the context of a major infrastructure project.
• Project management techniques including risk, contingency, cost, schedule and scope management.
• Awareness of the nature of the relevant contract / agreement structures and the design and application of appropriate performance systems.
• Project management aligned to the level of Association for Project Management (Advanced) or equivalent experience in engineering, commercial management or project controls.
• Understanding the elements of organisational change and transformation and the use techniques to address risk to organisational performance.
• Understanding of organisational capability development and change and the criticality of this to business performance.
Type of Experience:
• Experience of the project lifecycles and aligning with capability requirements to maintain the integrity of the operating model including planning, developing and implementing change project activities.
• Experience of working across functions and disciplines to deliver complex projects and objectives.
• Experience of working in an environment with a high degree of scrutiny and ambiguity
• Project management aligned to the level of Association for Project Management (Advanced) or equivalent experience in engineering, commercial management or project controls
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.