SEVERN TRENT
Delivery Business Lead
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Capital Delivery Business Lead
What do you get if you cross an award-winning, innovative, water company and over 300 dedicated team members? Our Capital Delivery team of course!
Our ambitious and innovative projects (all 5000+ of them) help to combat the challenges of waste and water infrastructure, flooding and water quality. Be a part of something bringing benefits to our communities, health outcomes, and the environment.
It could be the biggest challenge of your career. If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you.
Severn Trent’s Capital and Commercial Services Business Area is gearing up to deliver AMP8, delivering over 1bn of capital spend per annum to achieve our most ambitious capital programme ever at 6.5bn of enhancements work, benefiting both our customers and the environment.
This role is to be based in Coventry, but will require travel to other offices across the Midlands on occasion.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Reporting directly to the Strategic Lead, the Delivery Business Lead will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of a capital programme across Severn Trent’s project portfolio to time, to quality, and to budget, with individual projects ranging up to hundreds of millions of pounds. Forming a crucial part of our Capital Delivery leadership team, you will drive real efficiency through sustained performance improvement and innovative ways of working, helping us to achieve our most ambitious 5-year period ever!
You will provide inspirational leadership to deliver a step change in performance to secure delivery of a large-scale and complex capital portfolio ranging in value from £400m - £600m. Whilst instilling industry best practice, you will utilise our specialist in-house design and commercial teams, as well as our supply chain partners to effectively ensure our complex programmes are delivered within the required criteria. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will grow the business's capacity and capability to help shape our longer-term strategy ensuring your teams are set up for success entering the next business planning period.
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WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE
Ideally, you will have experience in an asset-intensive industry, such as water, rail, highways, nuclear, utilities, telecoms, or similar in a large engineering-focused matrix organisation. You will have a proven track record of successfully taking ownership and managing the end-to-end delivery of large, complex multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects, and experience of working collaboratively with contract partners, internal and external stakeholders, and a multi-disciplined team.
You will have a proven track record in developing and delivering through highly capable, high-performing teams and a record of operating in an asset-intensive industry where programme activity, innovation, and process are key. You will have experience in developing talent, building high-performing teams, and fostering a performance-driven culture. You will be able to work collaboratively with peers, utilising your relationships and experience to drive best-in-class performance. You will also have proven experience delivering strong financial and operational success in multi-faceted organisations.
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WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
It’s not just a job you’ll get here; you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.
Here’s some of our favourites:
- 31 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 additional days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to 20% of base salary per annum based on company performance)
- Car allowance of £5,208 paid in monthly instalments
- Private medical insurance for you and your family
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family-friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year
WHAT’S NEXT
We can’t wait to hear from you.
Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. If you’re not too sure about what you need to do, or have a question about the role before applying, please do reach out to our amazing team of recruiters at recruitment@severntrent.co.uk.
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