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About the job. Here at National Highways, we currently have a brand new opportunity for a Network Needs Manager to join our Planning and Development team in the East region. Within this role, you will be leading the regions integrated planning process in identifying patterns in regional data and developing insights from stakeholder and customers to build a regional strategy. You will also be responsible for the development and approval process of the regions long-term strategy and 5-10 years forward programme of work. Understand the long-term strategic aims of National Highways and associated policies, lead the identification and assessment of regional drivers and network intelligence (i.e. economic, social, asset needs etc.) from multiple sources to develop strategic oversight and articulate the impact on future network, asset and service development requirements Guide your team in obtaining intelligence for this analysis through customer insights, stakeholder aspirations, current and future third-party development pressures and network performance data in conjunction with identifying and understanding our asset needs, safety commitments and risks. Ensure plans are prioritised to be commercially viable and deliverable in line with agreed regional allocations, supplier capacity, National Highways resource capacity, KPIs/PIs/outputs and efficiency targets. Lead, directly and indirectly, the ongoing engagement with internal and external stakeholders in needs identification and forward planning processes, ensuring proposed activities and investments contribute to improving the customer experience, safety performance and overall network performance in the region. Act as ambassador to ensure the Regions network requirements are considered and reflected in the development of the future Roads Investment Strategy for Strategic Network Studies (which may develop into major scheme interventions), Route Optimisation Packages, and Improving Network Performance & Safety Regional Small Scheme Packages. About you. Extensive experience of creating strategies and developing business and operational plans Strong commercial and financial acumen Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks About us. Here at National Highways, we manage and improve Englands 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 About Us Why you should join us At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. Were proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it then youll be a great fit for our organisation. A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and were open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible. Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10% Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working Life assurance of 4 times annual salary Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience And we are Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme Community friendly offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include: Right to work check 3 year employment history references DBS criminal record check Social media and adverse journalism check Driving licence check (if applicable) Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable) Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable) And finally We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires. TPBN1_UKTJ