Programme Development Specialist
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,190 to £43,240 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 1RN |
| Company: | National Highways |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6488_1751875460 |
Summary
About the job.
At National Highways, we have an exciting opportunity for a Programme Development Specialist to join our team based in Midlands. The Programme Development Specialist will be delivering a robust and systemic programme development and value management process for the Region, ensuring investment proposals and emerging solution designs meet intended outcomes and provide the best lifecycle value.
This role can be based from our Birmingham or Nottingham office.
- Develop scheme project briefs and business cases for the forward programme, ensuring business outcomes are clearly articulated, and that all necessary stakeholders provide input and are consulted on the development of proposed solutions / designs.
- Develop packages of work for scheme delivery suppliers, ensuring that these accurately reflect the work required to address the asset need.
- Project manage and coordinate feasibility studies, site surveys and activities involved in early solution development.
- Work with key stakeholders to develop the region's 5-10 years forward programme of work, coordinating inputs and activities across multiple regional teams.
- Manage programme development related activities within expected timescales and quality standards, ensuring activities are well planned and coordinated and that all supporting information and documents are effectively stored and controlled.
About you.
- Engineering or project management qualifications/accreditation OR significant demonstrable experience in comparable role
- Good commercial and financial acumen, including driving innovation and adding value to projects to ensure budgets and deliverables are met.
- Experience working collaboratively with suppliers and internal & external stakeholders to deliver safe and cost effective items of work
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Good understanding of VM processes and costs benefits analysis
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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