Compliance Manager in Birmingham

Salary: Base salary: £41,092 pa to c.£48,344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Compliance Manager at HS2, you will be responsible for assuring all commitment compliance activities, including project managing the lifecycle of processes for Undertakings and Assurances (U&As), working with internal teams and the supply chain to ensure compliance.

• To be responsible for assuring all commitment compliance activities on behalf of HS2 stakeholders.
• Project managing the lifecycle of processes required for complying with U&As, working with internal teams and the supply chain.
• To collaborate with teams to support and guide the development of compliance plans to meet U&A requirements and to ensure evidence is recorded in appropriate systems.
• To provide instruction and facilitation to ensure U&As are managed to minimise risk to HS2.
• To be responsible for completing assurance checks and audits.
• To ensure the process for dealing with non-compliance and potential non-compliance is adhered to.
• To be responsible for contributing to all compliance reporting as required.
• To have accountability to work across HS2 and the supply chain to ensure consistency of a risk-based approach in the management of U&As.
• To assure effective change management for commitments from their initiation to sign off.
• To be accountable for coordinating dispute resolution and identifying risks and opportunities.

• Ability to deliver monitoring and reporting arrangements in a complex and demanding environment.
• Ability to deliver compliance monitoring and reporting.
• Ability to achieve timely and accurate delivery whilst paying close attention to detail.
• Ability to produce written and verbal communications which convey complex details in a simple manner.
• Ability to engage a range of stakeholders with transparency and integrity both within the public and private sectors, on projects or policy areas of comparable scale, scope and complexity.
• Effective time management.
• Conflict management.
• Problem solving.

• All Microsoft applications and DOORS (preferable).
• Knowledge and experience of ISO9001 auditing principles.
• Understanding of risk methodology.

• Ability to deliver in a maturing environment against challenging timescales and developing requirements.
• Experience of high-quality compliance management and reporting.
• Experience of providing counsel across an organisation.
• Experience of compliance in any doctrine.
• Experience of working in a political and/or regulated environment/sector.
• Experience of Project Management.
• Working to manager level.
• Dealing with conflict and difficult scenarios.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.