B2G Programme Manager

At Believ, formerly known as Liberty Charge, we’re committed to sustainable transport being accessible to everyone. We’re a Charge Point Operator (CPO) on a mission to create the UK’s most reliable electric vehicle charging network that doesn’t cost the earth and leaves no one behind. Providing equitable access to electric vehicle charging, and achieving cleaner air for all, is at the heart of the Believ mission.

We work closely with local authorities and businesses to deliver reliable, high quality charging networks at pace, at scale and at zero cost.

We offer all the advantages of being a scale-up business, but with the added security and long-term backing from well-known parents - Liberty Global (who also own our delivery partner, Virgin Media O2) and Zouk Capital (who manage the Government’s Charging Investment Infrastructure Fund).

You’ll be joining this exciting journey at the start of our scale-up phase, and working with us to hit the ambitious targets our shareholders have set. You’ll become part of a passionate and supportive team in a fast-paced, dynamic and result-driven environment.

The Programme Manager role is where Believ's build-out programme becomes real. As part of a wider squad led by your Senior Programme Manager, you will own the day-to-day delivery of your patch of sites, from confirmed build-ready status, through to installation, energisation and handover into operations. Reporting to the Senior Programme Manager, this is a hands-on delivery role covering Programme & Site Delivery, Design & Pre-Construction, Connections & Metering & Energisation, Contractor Management, Customer & Client & Community engagement, Commissioning, Quality & Handover, and Safety, Data & Reporting.

You will hold contractors to account, unblock DNO and metering issues, front up to council officers and residents, and be on site often enough to know that the standards we describe are the standards being worked to.

• Deliver to the standard method used across the region, and flag improvements to your Senior Programme Manager rather than quietly working around it.
• Run your patch's own operating rhythm within the squad's wider programme: site reviews, risk flagging and lessons learned for your sites.
• Flag capacity or workload pressure on your patch early to your Senior Programme Manager, so effort can be rebalanced across the squad.
• Work constructively with the specialists your Senior Programme Manager makes available to your patch, sharing knowledge and building cover where you can.
• Own the delivery of every site in your patch, from instruction through to energisation and handover.
• Build and maintain a realistic delivery programme for your patch, sequencing sites to keep contractors productive and to avoid work stacking up behind a single constraint.
• Manage risks and issues actively — escalating what you cannot resolve, and resolving what you can, rather than reporting a problem and waiting.
• Control delivery cost against plan, understanding the commercial consequence of decisions made on site.
• Keep the programme honest: forecast what will actually happen, not what would be convenient.

• Review construction-ready packs for your patch to confirm buildability and flag delivery risks to your Senior Programme Manager before accepting sites into your programme.
• Challenge designs that will not build well, will not gain consent, or leave no headroom for future expansion.
• Maintain a healthy pre-construction funnel so your patch always has permitted, designed, connection-ready sites available to it, escalating to your Senior Programme Manager where the funnel is running dry.
• Support the traffic order and bay consent process with accurate site information, and…