Head of Regional Change

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Leader to join us as Head of Regional Change and form part of our Senior Leadership team in Yorkshire and the North East. Within this role, you will be leading on transforming the way we work, making significant changes to the way we contract and deliver our responsibilities of operating and maintaining the major road network. You will be leading and managing organisational change, ensuring our people and those who work alongside us are highly effective and efficient in the work they deliver. This role can be based from our Darlington, Leeds or Wakefield office.

• Accountable for embedding and sustaining required changes into the region.
• Plan, deliver and implement new regional contract arrangements to the agreed timetable. Maintain all existing and interim contract arrangements to ensure seamless transition
• Work with the Regional Leadership Team to deliver a planned, consistent and assured regional programme. Ensure the programme aligns with other programmes and portfolios of work; and corporate, technical and specialist standards.
• Proactively champion engagement and collaboration with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders to drive understanding, maintain alignment with regional activities and resolve conflicting goals, priorities and timescales
• Work collaboratively with business partners to ensure that the project and programme plans to initiate contract changes are developed and maintained to enable optimised delivery in line with the agreed strategy.
• Lead all change project and programme reporting and management information ensuring visibility of progress and performance by the Regional Leadership Team, Operations Senior Management and Business Partners
  
  Proven ability to lead, engage and inspire a diverse range of teams toward a shared vision and ways of working
• Excellent influencing and communicating skills to effectively engage key internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate experience of delivering large scale change programmes
• Experience in leading and managing business change and associated risks and issues
• Relevant programme delivery skills, gained from extensive experience working in a project or programme management environment
  
  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. 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. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible. Our benefits package
• 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)