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View more categories View less categories Sector Sales and Business Development Role Senior Manager Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time
About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
Brief Description
We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do! Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.
The post is responsible for managing a diverse set of teams who provide commercial support across the business units and functions in the Wales and Western Region. You will be responsible for commercially managing the delivery Frameworks supporting multi-million-pound projects within Wales & Western Region.
You will be working closely with stakeholders, suppliers and project teams coordinating activities and providing stakeholders with commercial support and guidance as required whilst ensuring compliance with our internal governance policies.
About the role (External)
Develop, implement and maintain complex commercial funding strategies.
Develop, implement and maintain complex third party and industry commercial strategies.
Lead negotiation of complex, and high value contracts, achieving best value. Prepare and execute the corresponding contracts.
Lead commercial activity, which is compliant with Network Rail policies, procedures and governance and legal (including EU Directives) and regulatory requirements.
Identify cost reduction and efficiency opportunities, including contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and the establishment of tools to benchmark programme efficiencies.
Influence and liaise with other Industry and national programmes to manage consistency in the commercial approach to supply market.
Identify key commercial and contractual risks to business and manage contracts to mitigate risk.
Develop appropriate processes and systems to regularly measure and monitor supplier performance and exercise delegated authority to procure in accordance with established policies and governance.
Contribute to the development and implementation of best practice systems and processes for the effective, efficient and consistent management of procurement and supply chain activities.
Lead and direct the preparation and implementation of appropriate commercial assurance regimes and prepare robust tender documents structuring the pricing document to facilitate cost analysis feedback for high value/high risk contracts and manage the whole tender process.
Essential
Proven commercial leadership at a functional level.
Successful experience in negotiating commercial arrangements.
Substantial experience in setting up, implementing and running 3rd Party financing and commercial arrangements.
Qualified to degree level in relevant subject area.
Chartered membership of relevant professional institution.
Thorough knowledge of construction and third-party contracts and contract requirements.
Proven experience of balancing stakeholder expectations against the needs and capabilities of the business and suppliers.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Practitioner experience of risk management and contracts assurance.
Desirable
Wide and successful management background either in rail or construction industry with extensive experience at a senior level of procurement and contracting.
Experience of operating contracts and procurement processes and procedures within Network Rail.
Experience of leading private financing programmes and/or complex multiple party commercial arrangements.
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities. From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
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