Operations Manager Land Assembly in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Base salary: £46,406pa to c.£54,595pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

About the Role: As an Operations Manager at HS2 within Land and Property, you will bring a high level of technical Land Referencing experience to help improve consistency, efficiency and effectiveness of the Land Assembly team with a focus on the stakeholder experience.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Lead on the implementation, refinement and improvement of the systems necessary to acquire and/or possess the land required for the railway.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across Department for Transport, Land and Property, Property policy teams, and the Independent Land Advisor.
• Provide specialist advice to the Land Assembly Managers to ensure land is delivered in the right way, to the right quality following approved processes and governance.
• Drive improvements in the quality of supplier data and plan submissions to ensure delivery on a 'right first time' basis; increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of supplier operations through identification of areas of process improvement and performance management.
• Maintain a robust regime of assurance to ensure compliance is maintained.
• Work with the Land Assembly and Referencing Team to develop and refine the processes, policies and Health and Safety procedures for the timely acquisition of land and in a manner that is sympathetic to those affected.
• Support the development and implementation of a Learning and Development programme for the Land Assembly and Referencing team to ensure continual improvement in capability and compliance with professional Continues Professional Development (CPD) requirements.
• Improve the collaboration with Suppliers to ensure suppliers' behaviours and activities are coordinated and outputs are delivered within agreed quality, cost and time targets, challenging where required.
• Lead on short term business priority projects to further the team's suite of policies and 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.

Skills:

• Programme management skills, to ensure deliverables are provided within time, cost and quality criteria.
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Communication skills in relation to teams to ensure smooth flow of information, as well as report-writing and presenting skills.
• Attention to detail in ensuring high quality in your own and when reviewing others' outputs.
• Ability to use project and time management techniques.
• Data compilation and analysis skills.
• Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems.

Knowledge:

• Project management theory, qualifications or project planning tools.
• Understanding of acquisition and land assembly processes.
• Working knowledge of government procedures and processes.
• Knowledge of land referencing and assembly including requirements for Hybrid Bills and Transport & Works Act Orders.

Experience:

• Experience of compulsory purchase powers including relevant statutes and established practices.
• Experience of managing own projects and workload independently, including experience of compiling and analysing data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools.
• Experience of working with teams to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery.
• Experience of managing a process within a technical discipline.
• Reporting to and engaging day to day with senior stakeholders; providing them with consistent, high quality information targeted for senior managers.
• Delivery experience in a similar environment (e.g. within judicial style process).
• Dealing with public facing complaints, policy development or stakeholder issues.

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.