Senior Programme Manager

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Job Description

Location: Birmingham

Base salary: £54878 pa to £64562 pa 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.

The Senior Programme Manager role provides professional project and programme management leadership for the delivery of the transformational Cost Assurance strategy across the HS2 Programme. The role is responsible for managing Cost Assurance activities using best practice project management and project controls methods, including planning, tracking, reporting and risk management to drive successful and timely outcomes. This role will influence the delivery of the Cost Assurance strategy which will have a direct impact on HS2's ability to better manage and assure the use of taxpayers' money.

About the role:

• To own and manage the Cost Assurance programme of activity incl. scheduling, tracking, reporting, RAID management, and benefits management.
• Responsible for producing regular progress reports for all Cost Assurance workstreams in conjunction with workstream leads.
• Responsible for leading and driving scheduling activities of the team to ensure that activities are well planned, resourced and align with strategic goals.
• Responsible for developing and measuring Cost Assurance capability against maturity criteria.
• Responsible for leading and coordinating comms from the team to the rest of the business and into the supply-chain.
• Responsible for leading risk management to ensure Cost Assurance activity is adequately addressing threats/opportunities and proactively identifying new risks.

About you:

• Ability to develop, plan and integrate projects across multiple functions/teams to optimise costs and project benefits.
• Understanding of the project/programme management knowledge aligned to the level of APM Project Manager (advanced)
• Experience of the entire project lifecycle including planning, procuring, developing and implementing project activities.
• Ability to identifying the necessary information, managing the gathering and synthesising of that information, facilitating the identification of options and the application of judgement based on logic and reason

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.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

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.