Performance Manager

Salary and benefits

• Base salary is £54,878–£64,562 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• A flexible benefits fund of 20% is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable; other competitive benefits are offered.

About the role

Programme performance and risk

• Assure and integrate programme-wide performance insights and coordinate mission-level risks, including analysis for phase-level contingency drawdown decisions.
• Develop intelligence for performance management and integration; correlate performance against baselines to support challenge, mitigation and optimisation.
• Lead assurance, prioritisation and profiling for the annual Performance Measurement Plan.
• Analyse risks and opportunities affecting Delivery into Service dates and support recommendations for changes.
• Define and manage inputs from delivery teams, the PMO and matrixed controls resources.
• Horizon-scan and use right-to-left planning to identify strategic risks and opportunities early and optimise the delivery plan.
• Raise recommendations on active risk management.

Skills and knowledge

• Provide clear direction by prioritising objectives, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales.
• Manage stakeholders, build effective relationships, communicate and influence across departments, and facilitate workshops to resolve critical problems.
• Understand controls disciplines and interpret performance data; analyse data and produce accurate, timely reports for different audiences.
• Know project controls disciplines including schedule, cost, change and risk management, and baseline development and maintenance on a major programme.
• Know project and commercial management principles, including cost delivery and schedule targets.
• Understand NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and contractor-client communication workflows.

Experience

• Experience in senior project management or project controls roles within an infrastructure delivery environment.
• Experience leading teams or initiatives and working in or with project controls functions.
• Experience supporting change events in a project environment and participating in governance meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Experience using Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, or equivalent.

Employment and workplace

• The source identifies the employment type as full-time.
• The provided description does not specify a remote, hybrid or onsite working arrangement.

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