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Location
Blackfriars, GB
Department Name
Southern Region
About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
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!
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
Accountable for leading the sourcing delivery of business critical, high spend and high saving opportunities, working in collaboration with the relevant Heads of Category and Supplier Management, customers and stakeholders.
To drive the Regional sourcing team to achieve excellent levels of service for internal and external customers and stakeholders and understanding and delivering for our passengers.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities –
1. Create and deliver the Region’s sourcing strategies to optimise engagement with the supply chain in support of the Region’s wider objectives to improve performance for passengers.
2. Be the Region’s lead sourcing advisor.
3. Build and maintain strategic relationships with supply chain, and lead in the provision of excellent service to stakeholders TO support improvements in performance for passengers and customers.
4. Lead the sourcing process for highly complex, business critical and high spend goods or services, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models. Influencing annual spend in the region of £0.5bn within an OJEU environment, managing all risk, legislative and regulatory requirements
5. Working collaboratively with the Head of Category Management and senior leaders to execute the Integrated Category Strategies through the development and delivery of a Sourcing pipeline
6. Lead negotiator of multi-million-pound savings, defined benefits, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets, where applicable
7. Establish a collaborative way of working with all relevant customers and stakeholders that support the successful transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management
8. Challenge demand and aggregation of requirements of senior customers and stakeholders to maximise overall value, whilst aligning to customers’ and stakeholders’ objectives and priorities
9. Recognised in the external market and throughout Network Rail for their Sourcing expertise, providing specialist Sourcing advice. Introduce innovation, expertise and ideas to deliver Sourcing led competitive advantage
10. Lead competitor and supplier market watch assessments in the delivery of the optimal Total Cost of Ownership
11. Lead a team of motivated and talented Sourcing professionals, including specialised training schemes, fostering team-work, promoting talent management, with a succession plan implemented. Inspire the Sourcing team to fully understand and commit to the achievement of meeting business objectives that deliver value to Network Rail
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a degree standard or equivalent and MCIPS qualified (or equivalent professional body with chartered status)
- Significant Sourcing experience of high spend, high complexity categories with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery within an infrastructure or engineering environment
- A demonstrable level of line management experience
- Solution driven, innovator, cost and value led
- Proven level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
- Experience with cross-functional collaborative working methods
- Politically aware, with the ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies
- Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience and in large, complex organisations
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment
Closing date: 25th March 2024 - Late applications will not be accepted
Been referred by a friend, then please complete this form
Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of 16.01.2023. All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by 16.01.2023 will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.
You can visit Evenbreaks Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
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Head of Sourcing
Location
Blackfriars, GB
Department Name
Southern Region
About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
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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!
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
Accountable for leading the sourcing delivery of business critical, high spend and high saving opportunities, working in collaboration with the relevant Heads of Category and Supplier Management, customers and stakeholders.
To drive the Regional sourcing team to achieve excellent levels of service for internal and external customers and stakeholders and understanding and delivering for our passengers.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities –
1. Create and deliver the Region’s sourcing strategies to optimise engagement with the supply chain in support of the Region’s wider objectives to improve performance for passengers.
2. Be the Region’s lead sourcing advisor.
3. Build and maintain strategic relationships with supply chain, and lead in the provision of excellent service to stakeholders TO support improvements in performance for passengers and customers.
4. Lead the sourcing process for highly complex, business critical and high spend goods or services, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models. Influencing annual spend in the region of £0.5bn within an OJEU environment, managing all risk, legislative and regulatory requirements
5. Working collaboratively with the Head of Category Management and senior leaders to execute the Integrated Category Strategies through the development and delivery of a Sourcing pipeline
6. Lead negotiator of multi-million-pound savings, defined benefits, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets, where applicable
7. Establish a collaborative way of working with all relevant customers and stakeholders that support the successful transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management
8. Challenge demand and aggregation of requirements of senior customers and stakeholders to maximise overall value, whilst aligning to customers’ and stakeholders’ objectives and priorities
9. Recognised in the external market and throughout Network Rail for their Sourcing expertise, providing specialist Sourcing advice. Introduce innovation, expertise and ideas to deliver Sourcing led competitive advantage
10. Lead competitor and supplier market watch assessments in the delivery of the optimal Total Cost of Ownership
11. Lead a team of motivated and talented Sourcing professionals, including specialised training schemes, fostering team-work, promoting talent management, with a succession plan implemented. Inspire the Sourcing team to fully understand and commit to the achievement of meeting business objectives that deliver value to Network Rail
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a degree standard or equivalent and MCIPS qualified (or equivalent professional body with chartered status)
- Significant Sourcing experience of high spend, high complexity categories with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery within an infrastructure or engineering environment
- A demonstrable level of line management experience
- Solution driven, innovator, cost and value led
- Proven level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
- Experience with cross-functional collaborative working methods
- Politically aware, with the ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies
- Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience and in large, complex organisations
Desirable
- Detailed knowledge of the UK Rail Industry, including procurement processes in a reclassified environment
How to apply (External)
Closing date: 25th March 2024 - Late applications will not be accepted
Been referred by a friend, then please complete this form
Click apply now to apply.
Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of 16.01.2023. All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by 16.01.2023 will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.
You can visit Evenbreaks Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information
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