Commercial Scheme Sponsor

Commercial Scheme Sponsor

**Location**:
Blackfriars, GB

**Department Name**:
Southern Region

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**Brief Description**:
It’s an exciting time to be working for Network Rail. Southern Region is implementing innovative delivery partnerships to complete railway investment projects with less money and quicker while focussing on encouraging passengers back to the railway.

As Network Rail embed the cultural change to deliver differently in a model that removes traditional client contractor roles, this role will play a pivotal part in embedding works integration and stakeholder management across the region.

The role of Commercial Scheme Sponsor is to lead the external facing development and implementation of a portfolio renewal and enhancement schemes and support their delivery. You will be required to build strong customer and stakeholder relationships; and put the passenger and freight at the heart of what you do to support the successful delivery of the projects you sponsor.

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities**:
1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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 implements.

4. 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.

5. Comply with the requirements of corporate investment regulations, other corporate governance, and the Guide to Railway Investment Projects.

6. Monitor progress on customer schemes against agreed budgets, delivery plans and work programmes, challenge and intervene as required with Infrastructure Investment to achieve correction of adverse trends.

7. 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.

8. Contribute to the development of the Route’s strategy for enhancements through the Route Utilisation Strategy process and other business planning processes.

9. Work with customers and stakeholders to identify new opportunities for them to investment in the network.

10. Develop/deliver schemes in a safe and sustainable way which encourages passengers back to the railway

**Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications**
Essential
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent
- Commercially astute, persuasive, and customer focused
- Confident presenting information to a wide audience.
- Able to disseminate technical information into a concise message
- Negotiating skills
Desirable
- Some experience in management roles in an industrial commercial environment
- Knowledge / understanding of the railway industry
- Experience of dealing with project portfolios, negotiating contracts to finalisation and able to demonstrate commercial success

**Salary**: Band 3B, £44,690-£50,276 (plus £3,270 location allowance)

**Closing date: 07 July 2023**:
**Drugs and Alcohol Standard**:
LI-DB1