Senior Project Manager

The National Highways Change Delivery Team has been established to assist the company in meeting the financial and performance challenges that the RIS3 settlement will bring, as well as developing new capabilities and ways of working to ensure that NH is fit to face any future challenges.  

We are working on an exciting improvement programme and have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced project manager to join the team. We are a customer centric organisation and welcome cross sector applications. You will have experience in stakeholder management, problem solving and delivering projects on time, to cost and within scope. ​

As a Project Manager, you will play a vital role in planning and managing the successful delivery of a portfolio of projects within our 5-year road investment strategy 3 (RIS3) programme. You will oversee the performance of multiple projects, manage external contractors and consultants, ensuring the highest standards of governance, quality assurance, health and safety.

Please note that this will be a 12 month secondment opportunity.

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ strategic and delivery objectives, to report on and review project(s) performance, and to agree solutions that resolve complex issues.

• Lead the design of, 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.

• Ensure that all projects are delivered within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time, ensuring that they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, quality and health and safety standards.

• Lead the identification and evaluation of risks, issues, opportunities, dependencies and constraints associated with the projects, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.

• Management and resource identification of your team, lead and motivate the team of Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers, to ensure effective performance is delivered and to support their personal development.

About you.

• Experience of managing teams to successful development and delivery of complex, medium/high risk projects or high profile projects

• Experience of managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes

• Track record of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners

• Demonstrate experience as mentor and/or coach to develop project management talent, skills and competence within a complex project environment

• High resilience, to deal constructively conflicting priorities and setbacks.

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.