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About the Role

The Cost Director at HS2 is responsible for strategic leadership in the development, management, and control of the programme cost baseline and forecast. This role provides overarching strategic and functional leadership across all phases and portfolios, ensuring technical excellence and adherence to industry standards. The Director will develop, implement, and embed comprehensive cost management and estimation policies, processes, and standards across the organisation, guiding the wider supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for developing and leading the implementation of the 'HS2 Cost Management Strategy' and 'HS2 Cost Estimation Strategy'.
• Providing strategic leadership and expert advice to the programme in support of the overall cost baseline, including overseeing the development of comprehensive programme performance reports.
• Accountable for maintaining the unlet scope, budget, and cost forecasts, ensuring early visibility of trends.
• Responsible for developing and leading strategic relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Accountable for providing overall leadership and strategic direction of the Line of Defence 1 (LoD1) assurance activity across both Cost Management and Cost Estimation.
• Acting as the senior point of contact within the Programme Management Office (PMO) with accountability for providing expert advice and guidance to the Department for Transport (DfT) and other infrastructure bodies.
• Responsible for developing, leading the implementation of, and continuously improving robust cost management and estimation standards, policies, and processes.
• Accountable for leading the Cost and Estimating function, setting strategic objectives, reviewing performance, and ensuring team members have the necessary skills.
• Accountable for deploying specialist resources and expertise in cost and estimating across all relevant areas of the organisation.
• Responsible for providing overall specialist cost and estimating advice in support of freedom of information requests and responses to other industry requests.
• Responsible for the financial management of budgets and workforce planning relating to the Cost and Estimating function.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience leading at senior level cost, estimating, or similar teams in major programmes or similar high complex organisation.
• Experience managing and influencing complex relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of operating effectively as senior leader, undertaking strategic roles which are subject to internal and external scrutiny.
• Experience providing strategic advice to enable proactive decision making, mitigating challenges and increasing value added opportunities.
• Experience on managing big teams, creating a positive environment to support professional development of team members.
• Experience of directing a large multi-disciplinary team including internal staff and external consultants to achieve challenging business outcomes.
• Experience of developing and reporting to Executive and Board level forums and providing confidence to critical third parties.
• Knowledge on how to lead and motivate Cost and Estimating teams in high complexity environments, major programme, or similar organisations.
• Knowledge on Cost management and Estimation methodologies in line with industry best practices.
• Knowledge in baseline development and management for major programmes or similar high complex environments.
• Knowledge of other associated controls disciplines including but not limited to Schedule, Risk, Change Management, Performance and Reporting.
• Knowledge and detail awareness of financial and commercial function, including delineation of responsibilities and accountabilities in major programmes and similar high complex environments.
• Awareness of standard assurance processes implemented in major programme environments.

Skills

• Leadership capabilities to define and prioritise department and team members objectives, strategic direction and integration with the other directorates in the programme.
• Effective communication and influencing skills, with the ability to lead and provide strategic guidance to Cost and Estimation teams.
• High proficiency in developing, reviewing, analysing and understanding cost and estimating inputs and outputs.
• Ability to integrate and analysis numbers in conjunction with other core controls components including scope, schedule, risk.
• Rational thinking to integrate with other departments and functions, including Controls and other functions like Finance, Commercial, Delivery.
• Ability to assimilate large volumes of date, ensuring strategic understanding to lead Cost and Estimation function.
• Ability to deliver Cost Management, Estimation, and Project Controls roles in large, complex projects through line and matrix team arrangements utilising directly employed staff or contract-based provision.
• Stakeholder management including the ability to engage, influence, negotiate, and develop consensus with HS2 Board and Executive, senior internal, external and supply-chain parties.
• Setting and communicating a compelling vision and direction and keeping diverse teams focused on the same goals.

Location

• London
• Birmingham

Work Type

• Office-based (minimum three days per week)

Experience Level

• Senior level

Benefits

• Positive and inclusive adjustments
• Flexible working
• Staff network encouragement
• Personal and professional development opportunities

About the Company

• HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high speed rail network.
• The new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
• HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent.
• We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
• HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation.
• Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
• HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

Equal Opportunity

• HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
• 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.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
• In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review.
• This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.