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Brief Description
Are you interested in being involved in the procurement of innovative rail technology solutions where you can apply your expertise to a variety of products and services? Or working on complex infrastructure or property-related procurement activities? If so, this role is an exciting opportunity to explore.
About the role (External)
Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered.
Duration: Permanent
Salary: Band 3C (55,596 - 63,797)
Location: The Quadrant: MK
Are you a sourcing superstar? If so, we want you!
We are looking for a dynamic procurement professional to join our national Commercial and Procurement (C&P) team based in Milton Keynes, leading high value and complex sourcing projects.
Our C&P teams are responsible for delivering high-quality products and services that achieve value for money. Our role is to complete the end-to-end sourcing process across a wide range of spend categories for internal customers which includes Network Rail's operational routes as well as national functions.
You will be working in the specialist Materials, Operations and Logistics C&P team who are responsible for sourcing a wide range of products and services to support the maintenance of our rail infrastructure. This includes the procurement of heavy materials (e.g. rail, sleepers, ballast) but also the provision of on-track services such as loco haulage, engineering trains, seasonal track treatment (e.g. leaves on the line), high output track maintenance, and high-speed infrastructure monitoring using train-borne technology.
You will be familiar with tendering within annual spend ranges between 100k to 500m within a public sector environment, and you will be supported by an experienced team of sourcing professionals whilst you settle into the role.
This role will provide an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to gain experience of tendering contracts of varying levels of complexity, value, and profile within a variety of markets.
You will work closely with your customers and our business experts to undertake pre-market engagement with the supply chain, draft sourcing strategies and tender documentation. You will lead the sourcing project, undertake complex commercial evaluations, and lead negotiations with suppliers. You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have in-depth experience of the end-to-end procurement process, and be prepared to support our customers.
Understanding your customer's needs will put you in the best place to identify the optimum strategic direction and put in place contracting strategies that embrace change, innovation, and creative thinking. We want you to bring us new ideas to help us:
* Improve safety - everyone home safe every day;
* Be more sustainable;
* Be more efficient financially and in programme management;
* Introduce innovation from our supply chain;
* Provide creative contracting strategies.
To help you find out more about the role we have created a candidate pack, linked below, which gives you an insight into what it's like to work at Network Rail including our purpose, our culture and values, pay and benefits, learning and development, and how we create an inclusive environment for all.
Manage the sourcing activities for multi-million pound, medium cost, and business risk opportunities, to include idea generation and innovation across complex spend categories and work collaboratively with relevant customers and stakeholders to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value.
Sound interested? This is what you will need to have:
Essential
* Educated to a degree standard or equivalent business experience
* Deep level of Sourcing experience, with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery
* Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
* Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities
* Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods
* Politically savvy, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level
* Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience of complex sourcing specific challenges
* Completer finisher mindset
Desirable
* Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management
* Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment
* MCIPS qualified
For more information about the main responsibilities and criteria of this role, please find the full job description attached below.
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