Manager, Management

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.

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.

As the Programme Performance Manager you will report directly to the Head of Programme Performance (HoPP) to provide performance insights that enable Best for Programme Recommendations (considering time, cost and quality). Through analysis of performance data, the Programme Performance Manager will be responsible for data specification and interpretation, identifying potential optimisation initiatives that mitigate risks and enhance outcomes.

• To be responsible for the assurance and integration of programme wide performance insights
• To be responsible for manging and coordinating ‘mission level’ risks and provide analysis and insights to enable decisions on drawdown of ‘phase level’ contingency
• Responsible for the development of intelligence that supports both performance management and integration
• To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of performance against baselines, providing analysis and insights that enable challenge, mitigation and optimisation of programme delivery
• Lead assurance, prioritisation and profiling in establishment of the annual Performance Measurement Plan
• Responsible for analysis to identify risks and opportunities to mitigate and optimise the Delivery into Service [DiS] dates to enable the PPD to recommend changes
• Define and manage inputs from delivery teams, PMO, matrixed controls resources as required to understand programme performance
• To be responsible for horizon scanning and right-to-left planning for early identification of strategic risks and opportunities, to optimise the delivery plan to make best for programme decisions
• Raise recommendations on active risk management
• 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

• Clear Direction – Ability to give clear direction, defining prioritizing objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales
• Stakeholder management
  - Ability to manage stakeholders; building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate
• Communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and work with teams from different departments
• Facilitation Ability to manage workshops to solve critical problems and provide clear direction to team members on the actions needed to manage and mitigate critical issues
• A technical understanding of controls disciplines with the ability to interpret performance data
• Problem Solving – Ability to identify multifaceted problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Ability to implementation of processes, procedures and guidance improving programme outcomes
• Data Analysis and Presentation – Ability…