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Sector: Legal
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 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!
Vacancy Details
Duration: Permanent
Location: This role is based in The Quadrant:MK or London Waterloo. This role is a full-time opportunity; flexible working patterns will be considered. For Quadrant:MK, you must live within 90 minutes of The Quadrant.
Band & Salary: Band 2C 85,395 - 97,991
Closing date: 12th March. On occasions, we may need to close the advert early based upon application volumes. Late applications may not be accepted.
Next Steps: Interviews will be held on 19 and 20th March 2025.
Who are we looking for?
The role is a rare and exciting senior leadership position in Network Rail's National Legal Team. We are looking for someone who is comfortable advising across different legal specialisms providing strategic business-focused legal advice. You will enjoy having a varied caseload across different customers while also leading the Legal Counsels in your team and providing support to the General Counsel in setting the team's strategic direction.
About the role (External)
You will take on a pivotal role in managing the varied legal work undertaken by the National Legal Team. The National team supports Network Rail's national functions such as Technical Authority, Route Services, Finance, HR for national functions, Procurement as well as supporting Regional colleagues on matters that affect Network Rail's business as a whole. The team is small for the scale of advice it delivers to its customers and is highly valued for its strategic outlook and business-focused advice. The team is passionate about delivering for passengers and freight operators and working collaboratively across the legal community within Network Rail.
What does the average day look like?
You will have a varied caseload of complex, high-value legal matters, which may be safety-critical or reputationally sensitive such as material litigation, procurement, commercial contracts, reorganisations, and regulatory enforcement action. You will deliver legal advice that is business-focused and reduces the company's exposure to risk while also achieving its commercial and business objectives. You will act as the primary legal contact for designated business functions, attending key business meetings to provide strategic legal guidance and collaborate with business customers to meet strategic aims, advise on policies, and deliver training. You will assist the General Counsel in setting the National Team's strategic direction. You will lead and develop the Legal Counsel in your team. You will contribute to multi-functional projects. You will manage and oversee external legal support.
Essential Criteria
Qualified solicitor or barrister with post-qualification experience, preferably gained all or most in-house. Legal background to be gained across a number of legal areas whether commercial, corporate, competition, litigation, property or otherwise but must have significant commercial or litigation experience. Some experience of managing other legal professionals or demonstrates the necessary attributes for doing so successfully. Ability to identify and minimise corporate legal risk and influence at senior management level. Strong communication and interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing. Proactive and commercially minded. Works well under pressure, with the ability to prioritise and handle competing demands. Basic financial/accounts understanding.
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. We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead. We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the railway. We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.
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 provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health, and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance, and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.
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 encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking. Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.
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.
Find out more about our recruitment process here.
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