Programme Manager - #1711079

We're looking for a Programme Manager to join our Transportation team based in Birmingham. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Birmingham

Hours: 40 hours per week

What will you be responsible for?

As Programme Manager you'll be working within the Programme team, planning, execution, and oversight of a set of related projects within an organisation. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that these projects are in line with the overall business objectives, completed within the designated timeframe, and within the allocated budget. Additionally, Programme Managers are responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, resolving conflicts, and mitigating risks to ensure the successful delivery of the programme.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Responsible for the management of all company programs (currently MS Project & Excel format) ensuring that they run smoothly, provide maximum impact
• Continuing in developing to best meet the needs of the construction team and wider Birmingham City Councils (BCC) traffic permitting and wider governance
• Working closely with our Operations team who are responsible for the delivery of the various construction schemes including but not limited to: Road resurfacing, pavement renewals, tunnels upgrades and others, along with a range of other internal and external stakeholder's departments including roads permitting teams and sub-contractors
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This role of Programme Manager is great for you if:

• You have the ability to think and plan strategically to achieve successful organisational outcomes, excellent project management skills within a portfolio of city-wide programs, clear analytical skills, able to plan, supervise and support operations and people / agencies delivering projects
• Can bring demonstrable analytical skills be forward thinking and able to supervise and support. operations and people who are not direct reports and/or delivering projects at a distance, planning skills to ensure effective use of resources and budget
• Are an inspirational leader able to motivate and engage direct, and non-direct reports with planners
  
  
  

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier