Location
England | United Kingdom
Job description
Director for the Office of CDIO #4848
Salary: Competitive + Package
Location: United Kingdom
Full Time
Closing Date: 25/2/2024
The role is accountable for directing, leading, and managing the central business planning, programme management and reporting functions and activities that in turn ensure the effective delivery of the short-, medium- and long-term objectives of the Digital Services directorate. The role will achieve this through providing focus, leadership, and expertise to drive a performance and delivery culture with impact and pace, whilst ensuring alignment and compliance with appropriate company governance. This role, on behalf of Digital Services, is the interface to the wider company and external stakeholders (including ORR and DfT) for corporate, performance and governance matters.
The seniority of this role and the experience required to take on such a position will mean the person will be required to deputise for the Chief Digital & Information Officer when the need arises and become accountable for any additional activities that do not align easily to the other delivery directorates within Digital Services.
What you’ll be leading on
- Accountable for the creation of the annual and 5-year business plan for Digital Services (circa £150m Capex and £150m Opex annually, 450 FTE, multiple indirect corporate KPIs and PIs). This will include the running and maintenance of the Digital Services IDC process.
- Accountable for reporting and tracking the delivery of the annual and 5-year business plan (both financial and performance), highlighting risks to that delivery and coordinating the associated mitigating actions.
- Accountable for managing the relationship with key stakeholders (ORR, DfT and Transport Focus) on matters relating to the delivery of those business plan objectives detailed above.
- Responsible for alignment and driving consistency across the teams in Digital Services
- Accountable for development and delivery of centrally managed initiatives and programmes - for example future contracting models and improvement activities
- Responsible for ensuring Digital Services remains aligned with other delivery and support functions across National Highways, being the focal point for these relationships.
- Accountable for any ad hoc projects, activities or commissions pertaining to the work of Digital Services that does not easily align to the regional delivery directorates.
- Accountable for orchestrating the development and maintenance, across divisions and directorates, the National Highways’ Enterprise Architecture, spanning business, data, technology, and applications.
To be successful you’ll need
- Demonstrable experience of leading people to successful delivery of a programme of complex and/or high-profile projects and services.
- Experience of working with Portfolio, Programme and Project methodologies.
- Experience in the design and production of key portfolio/project/programme management governance processes and related documentation. Including tasking, developing, and reviewing performance reports for monitoring, planning and decision making and ‘what good looks like’ examples to support effective delivery.
- Extensive experience in building out and optimising a balanced multi year portfolio, ensuring all delivery aspects are aligned.
- Track record of delivering tangible process improvements, embedding change and achieving measurable business benefits.
- Strong change management & line management experience, including staff development.
- Excellent organisational skills, and effective stakeholder management skills
Want to know more?
To request a copy of the role profile, please contact [email protected] quoting reference number #4848
ABOUT US
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
And finally
We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires
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