Senior Manager Landscape Design

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Job Description

Salary Birmingham: Base salary: £47,450pa to c.£59,300pa depending on skills and experience.

Salary London: Base salary: £53,850pa to c.£67,300pa depending on skills and experience.

Location - London or Birmingham

In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

As a Senior Manager Landscape Design at HS2, you will be responsible for strategically directing, defining and assuring the technical requirements, providing specialist landscape design expertise to the Delivery Teams and ensuring that an integrated and holistic landscape design is achieved. You will lead on bringing together information on Public Realm and Landscape from a complex range of sources to manage and guide the design integration to deliver the objectives of the Design Vision, Design guidance, Environmental Minimum Requirements, Strategic Goals and Objectives, Benefits and cost compliant integrated delivery of the project.

About the role:

• Be the Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Landscape Design and Public Realm matters, across Main Work Civils Contracts, Stations and Systems contracts and Infrastructure Management contracts working with multidisciplinary teams to set strategic objectives, assure outcomes and drive Design Vision compliant outcomes.
• Lead design discussions at various levels and between multiple contract teams and promote an integrated approach to Landscape Design.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (up to Director level) and lead the engagement and presentation process with various authorities and subject matter experts.
• Coach, up-skill and influence colleagues to ensure that Landscape Design issues are a key consideration in project decision making and management processes.
• Lead a small team of Landscape Architects and consultants, providing day-to-day strategic design leadership, setting technical standards and guidance.
• Be responsible for the client technical support and assurance related to Schedule 17 (planning) Application packages.
• Be responsible for budgets as delegated by line manager.
• Work in close collaboration with and provide regular progress updates to the Head of Natural Environment Design.
• Ensure safety is a key priority in all aspects of the role.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.

About You:

Skills

• Leadership skills including effective problem solving and ability to manage conflicting requirements.
• Presentation skills to deliver complex written and oral communications suitable for a broad audience.
• Risk Management Skills including the ability to assess, analyse and escalate risk.
• Analytical skills to compare, assure and provide analysis on information from various sources.
• Influencing and negotiating skills to influence senior decision makers.
• Review and Assurance skills to compare, assure and provide analysis on information.
• Project management skills to co-ordinate and manage multiple work streams.
• Mentoring and coaching skills to guide junior colleagues.

Knowledge

• Degree in Landscape Architecture or equivalent.
• Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute.
• Knowledge of relevant Landscape Architecture standards.
• Understanding of cost delivery and schedule targets.
• Understanding of the multi-discipline context and dependencies.
• Understanding of working in complex organisations.

Experience

• Leadership in delivery of complex Landscape and Public Realm schemes.
• Experience of complex programmes and projects.
• Experience of developing implementation mechanisms of complex landscape projects.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary management team.
• Project planning and organisation to meet significant project deadlines.
• Giving risk-based advice to senior stakeholders.
• Experience of working on regeneration and master planning projects.
• Experience in undertaking design reviews and mentoring project teams.
• Experience in developing pragmatic analysis, strategies and assurance processes.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high-speed rail network, improving capacity and shortening journey times.

HS2 Ltd aims to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff.