Programme Manager
Role Overview
The Programme Manager joins M Group Highways' highway maintenance team, which provides planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
The team supports safe movement of people across the UK and delivers infrastructure services.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role and team
The Programme Manager joins M Group Highways' highway maintenance team, which provides planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
The team supports safe movement of people across the UK and delivers infrastructure services.
Programme and commercial management
- Lead the Annual Plan's creation, implementation, monitoring, and overall success, including associated KPIs.
- Produce commercial reports, forecast accurately, and support commercial processes.
- Lead consistent application of project management processes and systems across Suffolk Highways.
- Work with design, construction, and commercial managers to monitor and improve contract performance and project delivery KPIs.
- Implement project controls and management; coordinate planners to keep programmes accurate and up to date.
Delivery, stakeholders, and team leadership
- Coordinate cross-contract and external resources to deliver project gateways.
- Work with client leads, supply chain, cross-contract resources, and other stakeholders to manage risks, programmes, and project finances.
- Line-manage Project Managers and Administrators and coordinate information between project teams, the client, and supply chain.
- Develop and apply Power BI to improve reporting visibility and delivery effectiveness.
- Promote commercial awareness, consistent change control, and financial monitoring; build relationships with client leads across workstreams.
Experience and skills
- Experience using project planning software such as Asta Powerproject, Primavera, or similar.
- Excellent leadership, influencing, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence client decisions.
- Understanding of the Traffic Management Act (Streetworks Permitting) is preferred.
- Experience using Power BI reports and dashboards; data analysts will support their development.
Benefits
- Benefits include a pension scheme, online GP service, employee assistance programme, retail discounts, life assurance, cycle-to-work and salary finance schemes, and enhanced family leave.
- Additional benefits include a company car and fuel card, salary-sacrifice electric or hybrid car scheme, private healthcare and cash plan, 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, holiday purchase, personal accident cover, and a referral reward.
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