Portfolio Manager - Connect Plus Services (CPS) - M25, London

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Portfolio Manager as part of the Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based in South Mimms, Leatherhead or Dartford (preferably).
You will be developing strategic planning, management and execution of the M25 Dartford Crossing integrated works portfolio for all Connect Plus (CP) and Connect Plus Services (CPS) workstreams including Asset Lifecycle Renewals, Pre-defined (M&E) Assets, Improvements and Planned Maintenance. The optimised integrated planning will aim to share roadspace across portfolio programmes and maintenance operations and develop holistic risk management plans to manage the potential impact of change to ensure delivery certainty of the agreed asset management plans.

What you’ll be doing

• Support CPS Transformation Director to deliver the new CPS operating model at Dartford.
• Develop strategic integrated planning, management and execution of the Dartford AMFP works portfolio for all CP and CPS workstreams and CPS Planned Maintenance. The optimised integrated planning will aim to share roadspace across portfolio programmes and maintenance operations and develop holistic risk management plans to manage the potential impact of change to ensure delivery certainty of the agreed asset management plans.
• Oversee design, procurement, and project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives and working with other business leads, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, interdependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to CPS Transformation Director, Asset Management team, Portfolio Management team, Commercial team, Head of Delivery, Dartford Service Delivery Manager, CP and National Highways (NH) as appropriate, to ensure full mutual understanding of the Dartford Portfolio delivery objectives.
• Develop regular reports on and review project performance for CPS SLT, and to agree solutions as appropriate to ensure programme delivery.
• Review the performance of Framework Contractors and Designers as appropriate, to ensure that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for accountability; and appropriate remedial action is taken where necessary.
• Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.

Who we’re looking for

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS:

This role will be based at our Dartford office, with visits to other depots or offices (South Mimms and Leatherhead) as necessary. Overnight site working may be required. We currently require all employees to work from CPS offices on average 60% in a typical week.
This role is available part time, job share or full time, and we endorse flexible working. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full time.
Why work for us
CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.
If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.
About us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.
To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.
Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK0996

• Support CPS Transformation Director to deliver the new CPS operating model at Dartford.
• Develop strategic integrated planning, management and execution of the Dartford AMFP works portfolio for all CP and CPS workstreams and CPS Planned Maintenance. The optimised integrated planning will aim to share roadspace across portfolio programmes and maintenance operations and develop holistic risk management plans to manage the potential impact of change to ensure delivery certainty of the agreed asset management plans.
• Oversee design, procurement, and project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives and working with other business leads, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, interdependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to CPS Transformation Director, Asset Management team, Portfolio Management team, Commercial team, Head of Delivery, Dartford Service Delivery Manager, CP and National Highways (NH) as appropriate, to ensure full mutual understanding of the Dartford Portfolio delivery objectives.
• Develop regular reports on and review project performance for CPS SLT, and to agree solutions as appropriate to ensure programme delivery.
• Review the performance of Framework Contractors and Designers as appropriate, to ensure that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for accountability; and appropriate remedial action is taken where necessary.
• Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain