Self-Delivery Manager

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to take on a leadership position at the heart of a major infrastructure programme with over 15 years remaining, offering you both long-term stability and room to grow. As Self-Delivery Manager, you’ll be shaping the future of how we deliver asset renewals across one of the UK’s most critical road networks — the M25.

You’ll lead a talented team of project managers, overseeing a £20 million annual programme and delivering around 200 renewal projects each year. These span multiple asset types, including M&E, nearside barriers, signage, lining and studding — all under CPS’s role as Principal Contractor under CDM regulations.

This role is all about impact and improvement. You’ll focus on increasing delivery predictability and driving value through smarter, more efficient use of CPS resources and labour. You’ll also ensure your team is supported, resourced, and equipped to consistently deliver high-quality work.

If you’re someone who thrives on collaboration, enjoys seeing tangible results, and wants to be part of something long-lasting, this role offers an exciting platform to lead, innovate and grow.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Self-Delivery Manager, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role in delivering high-impact infrastructure renewal projects across the M25. With a focus on value, safety, and performance, you’ll shape the success of a vital programme — while inspiring and supporting a team of project managers to achieve their best.

In this role, you will:

• Champion safety through visible, values-led leadership, promoting a positive safety culture rooted in Making Safety Personal and upholding CDM responsibilities.

• Lead and develop people, supporting your team’s growth while fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across asset delivery.

• Drive delivery excellence, ensuring each project is planned and delivered to agreed budgets, timeframes, and quality standards — aligned with our wider Delivery Strategy.

• Steer strategic planning, supporting the Asset Management Forward Plan (AMFP) with insight, influence, and a clear focus on realistic, deliverable outcomes.

• Own financial performance, monitoring budgets and proactively identifying efficiencies, especially through increased use of internal resources and self-delivery.

• Build strong stakeholder relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact for internal teams and external clients to enable clear, timely communication and decision-making.

• Plan and allocate resources, ensuring your project teams are well-supported with the right people and plans in place to meet both short and long-term needs.

• Ensure governance and compliance, producing clear, insightful monthly reports while working closely with PMO and Compliance to align performance with wider business goals.

This is a role for someone who thrives on leading with purpose, enjoys working in a dynamic and supportive environment, and wants to make a genuine impact on the future of one of the UK’s most important transport networks.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for someone who brings not just the right experience, but the mindset to lead, grow, and deliver meaningful impact. If you’re passionate about infrastructure, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and enjoy working with purpose-driven teams — we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll ideally have:

• A proven background in project delivery or a related field

• Experience leading teams, ideally within a matrix organisation

• The ability to manage multiple priorities calmly and effectively

• A solid understanding of industry safety standards and CDM regulations

• A degree in engineering, construction management, or relevant field — or equivalent practical experience

• Familiarity with NEC3 or NEC4 forms of contract

• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PMP or equivalent)

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

 

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At CPS 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/

 

 Behavioural Competencies: 

Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.

Energising:  Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards   and continuous improvement.

Challenging: seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.

Challengeable: Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement.

Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.

 

Location:

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.

 

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk