National Highways
Infrastructure Benefits and Value Manager
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About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Benefits and Value Manager to join our sponsorship team within Major Projects. As the Benefits and Value Manager, you will lead on Benefits and Value Management activities for a selection of major projects and work collaboratively with the delivery teams to strengthen project business cases and maximise benefits and efficiencies, to ensure our projects deliver best value for money solutions.
Please note this role can be based from any of our UK offices however travel to other offices to attend team meetings will be required.
- Provide single point guidance in the application of Benefits and Value Management for a selection of projects, maintaining the appropriate and effective application to all stages of the project lifecycle.
- Ensuring investment proposals fit with the long term plans of National Highways and develop robust communication channels for conveying project benefits.
- Working collaborate with our delivery partners and programme sponsors and leaders to actively support the realisation of benefits from delivery frameworks.
- Facilitate discussions on the purpose, scope, and objective of our projects, ensuring that the objectives are SMART and in line with our customer and stakeholders needs.
- Act as a subject matter expert on driving value in our project designs, adhering closely to our value engineering and design management approaches.
About you.
- Proven structural problem solving and analytical decision-making skills
- Proven experience of applying value management processes within the infrastructure industry or similar
- Excellent Benefit Management comprehension – BCR, KPI and VfM.
- Proven ability to drive a proactive and positive influence, advice and guidance to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Proven facilitation experience in workshops and working groups.
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.
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Major Projects are responsible for major enhancements projects on our road network. We make roads safer, journeys more reliable and unlock economic growth. At the same time, we seek out ways to create opportunities for sustainable travel, help nature to thrive and support our journey to net zero carbon.
Our team work closely with the supply chain to design and construct road projects, as well as develop a pipeline of possible projects as we look to the future. Our skills span many areas from customer experts, land and property advisers to project management. We understand the potential that our road schemes can bring.
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.
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.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
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
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- 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 an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
- 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
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)
- Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
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