Senior Manager Landscape Design in Birmingham

Base salary: £54,878pa to c.£64,562pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of 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.

You’ll play a critical leadership role strategically directing, defining and assuring the technical requirements and guidance, providing specialist landscape design expertise to the hybrid Bill and Delivery Teams and ensuring that an integrated and holistic landscape design is achieved.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading on bringing together information on Public Realm and Landscape from a complex range of sources to manage and guide the design integration.
• Providing qualitative assurance and verification to senior management level on key design issues across a defined geographic area.
• Being the Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Landscape Design and Public Realm matters.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and leading the engagement and presentation process.
• Coaching, up-skilling and influencing colleagues to ensure that Landscape Design issues are a key consideration in project decision making.
• Leading a small team of Landscape Architects and consultants, providing day-to-day strategic design leadership.
• Ensuring safety is a key priority in all aspects of the role.
• Actively promoting and embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work.

Skills required:

• Leadership skills including effective problem solving and managing conflicting requirements.
• Presentation skills to deliver complex written and oral communications.
• Risk Management Skills – including the ability to assess, analyse and elevate risk.
• Analytical skills – including the ability to compare, assure and provide analysis on information.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Project management skills – ability to co-ordinate and manage multiple workstreams.
• Mentoring and coaching skills.

Knowledge required:

• Degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent.
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute.
• Understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets and the need to deliver an integrated solution.
• Understanding of working in complex organisations and project workplaces.

Type of experience:

• Leadership in delivery of complex Landscape and Public Realm schemes.
• Experience of complex programmes and/or projects.
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary management team within a large, complex project.
• Experience in developing pragmatic analysis, strategies and assurance processes.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

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.

HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network, improving capacity, shortening journey times, boosting the economy and creating thousands of jobs.