Commercial Scheme Sponsor

Commercial Scheme Sponsor

**Location**:
Blackfriars, GB

**Department Name**:
Southern Region

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**Brief Description**:
We are recruiting for a Commercial Scheme Sponsor.

Based at London Blackfriars, you'll lead the development and implementation of a portfolio of signalling/track renewals or enhancement projects in an effective and timely manner with key focus on quality, safety, value for money and implementation of robust governance. You’ll need to be able to build great relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, be a confident communicator and be able to set and agree requirements. You will need to be able to monitor progress, manage change, whilst dealing with different views, opinions and needs from a variety of sources and stakeholders.

The roles being recruited for are to cover a range of enhancements, signalling renewals and/or track renewals within Southern, working with both internal and external teams across the 3 Routes.

One of the aspects I love most about my job is the people I work with, both in my
direct team and colleague in other areas of the business. In my current role as
Senior Sponsor for Track Renewals, I’m only one of a handful of women working
within a much wider team but I have never once felt side-lined by my male colleagues
or as if my voice or opinion counts for any less than theirs. It’s a male dominated environment
but a really inclusive and welcoming one at the same time, one in which everyone can bring
their authentic self to work, and that is something I really value working here.

**Lucy Phipps, Senior Commercial Scheme Sponsor**

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities -**
- Lead the projects in your portfolio, providing clear remits, setting of requirements and implementation of robust project governance.
- Work in collaboration with project delivery teams, clients and stakeholders so that projects work to the right scope, funding and schedule.
- Lead and maintain relationships with nominated customers and stakeholders, and be the focal point, to monitor whether Network Rail is fully responsive for the development of schemes. Champion the interests of the customers and stakeholders within Network Rail.
- Where appropriate, develop proposal for customers and stakeholders for the signalling and/or track portfolio within Southern. Establishing nature and scope of scheme in line with business criteria, including consideration of their viability within the route planning process, timetable, implications, operational arrangements and railway Estates interfaces.
- Where appropriate, - develop proposals from customers and stakeholders for enhancements, to establish the nature and scope of their schemes in line with the business planning criteria, including consideration of their viability within the route planning process, timetable, implications, operational arrangements and railway Estates interfaces.
- Where appropriate, lead negotiations with customers for the commercial and contractual terms on which schemes will be implemented, or the terms on which Network Rail will provide asset protection if the customer leads the scheme’s development and delivery.
- Where required, Sponsor the delivery or facilitation (through asset protection arrangements) by Infrastructure Investment of externally funded schemes to track, monitoring whether customer and stakeholder requirements are fully met on scope, price, quality and programme of works.
- Comply with the requirements of corporate investment regulations, other corporate governance, and Project Acceleration in Controlled Environment (PACE).
- Monitor progress on projects against agreed budgets, delivery plans and work programmes, challenge and intervene as required with delivery agents to achieve correction of adverse trends.
- Undertake post implementation reviews to close schemes, check the customer is fully billed and pays for the works, whether the works deliver the intended outputs and new works are fully incorporated into maintenance and renewal plans.
- Contribute to the development of the Route’s strategy for renewals and/or enhancements through supporting the Region’s Business Planning processes, with particular focus on the new CP7 operating model.
- Work with customers and stakeholders to identify new opportunities for them to lead investment in the network.

**Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications**

**Essential**
- Qualified to