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In practice, 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.\nAs the Lead Project Controls Manager you will be responsible for driving the development of the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for the Rail Development directorate, providing strategic insight and analysis of performance against the baseline and highlighting any trends or risks to support decision making.\nAbout the role:\nTo be responsible for driving the development and maintenance of the Rail Development integrated baselines across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a number of development/delivery areas\nTo be responsible for ensuring adherence with Project Controls policies, processes and standards across a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Ltd Programme and across the supply chain, portfolio, projects or contracts\nTo be responsible for managing and co-ordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, for projects or contract to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information being captured\nTo be responsible for promoting and applying consistent approaches towards project controls across the Portfolio and contracts and leading the assurance of Project Controls Data across a portfolio or project\nTo be responsible for strategic analysis and insights of the data and reports submitted and providing insights & trends on performance and risks to support decision making\nTo be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance whilst capturing and analysing cost data, including inputting cost data into HS2 data capture systems\nTo be responsible for reviewing supply chain programme submissions and updating client schedules\nTo be accountable for managing risks for Rail Development, leveraging SME advice and technical knowledge from specialists to respond to project delays, issues and other challenges throughout the project\nTo be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed.\nTo be responsible for managing the co-ordination and communication of the Period reporting cycle ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle, and undertaking self-assessment of procedural compliance, sharing lessons and best practice within the Project Controls community\nTo be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports within PC & Commercial team \nActively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI\nAbout you:\nSkills:\nClear Direction - Ability to give clear direction. Defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales\nComplex problem solving - ability to identify complex problems. Review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders\nStakeholder management - Ability to manage stakeholders; building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate\nEffective verbal and written communication skills - communicate effectively with people at all levels within HS2 Ltd, adapting any messages as appropriate. This will include producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience and presentations to the board\nstakeholder groups which includes the HS2 executive team, central government, local government, professional bodies, internal stakeholders and JV board stakeholders\nDecision Making - ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason and make use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data\nFacilitation - Ability to manage workshops to solve critical problems and provide clear direction to team members on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues\nInfluencing and Negotiating skills - including internal and external stakeholders\nData Analysis and Presentation - Ability to analyse and interpret data and produce accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience\nKnowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management\nKnowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme\nKnowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets\nUnderstanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client\nExperience in leading project controls teams on projects/programmes within a complex delivery programme including the management of multidiscipline project controls teams\nDemonstrable experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting\nExperienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.)\nExperience of managing and/or influencing governance forums including partnering boards, collaboration boards, local/regional political stakeholders and Joint Venture partner boards with delegated decision-making powers of multimillions of pounds\nKnowledge:\nKnowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management\nKnowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme\nKnowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets\nUnderstanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client\nType of Experience:\nExperience in leading project controls teams on projects/programmes within a complex delivery programme including the management of multidiscipline project controls teams\nDemonstrable experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting\nExperienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.)\nExperience of managing and/or influencing governance forums including partnering boards, collaboration boards, local/regional political stakeholders and Joint Venture partner boards with delegated decision-making powers of multimillions of pounds\nThe post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect\nIt 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.\nAs HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. 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