About the job.

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

About you.

• 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

About the us.

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.