Programme Development Manager
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,180 to £64,120 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LZ |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6490_1751874882 |
Summary
About the job.
National Highways is excited to be looking to hire for a new role of Programme Development Manager within our Operations Directorate in the South East Region. The key focus of this role is to lead the region's integrated planning process, using intelligence and insight into customer, social and economic demands, looking out to 20-30 years for development pressures, anticipating future performance of the Strategic Road Network, balancing this with the needs of our physical assets, in order to develop commercially viable 5-10 years forward programmes and solutions that deliver the region's goals.
- Oversee the development and approval process of the Region's long-term strategy, including the 5-10 years forward programme of work, and associated budget, ensuring these are commercially viable and aligned to regional drivers such as customer, social, economic, safety, network performance and asset needs.
- Ensure that the prioritisation of activities in the 5-10 years forward programme reflects all of the region's needs, agreed strategy, policies, budget, and efficiency targets.
- Lead, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders such as Local Authorities in needs identification and forward planning processes, developing effective and collaborative relationships, ensuring proposed activities and investments contribute to improving the customer experience, safety performance and overall network performance in the region.
- Provide leadership, direction and line management for the team, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans. Managing the utilisation and allocation of team resources to ensure appropriate resourcing levels for all the activities in scope.
- Lead the improvement activities required to ensure performance feedback and lessons learnt are incorporated into future planning processes and deliver tangible planning stability and accuracy improvements.
About you.
- Demonstrable experience in a leadership role, with extensive team management experience.
- Experience in identification of appropriate metrics for analysis and interpretation of information to monitor the business benefits of asset strategies and plans.
- Experience in the use of investment appraisal and optimisation techniques; value-for-money criteria and financial evaluation methods.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Relevant Civil Engineering degree with relevant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering portfolios
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
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