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1 month ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Job Introduction
In this role, you’ll be responsible for the development and delivery of the current and next generation of Telecoms assets. You’ll be an effective decision maker, able to assess value for money and make every pound we spend stretch as far as possible to deliver the right outcomes. You’ll support and challenge our delivery teams and suppliers and be highly collaborative with a passion for empowering and motivating project teams. You’ll also make sure that we learn lessons from the monitoring and evaluation of the things that we do. You’ll help Telecoms make the right investment choices to deliver its targets and ambitions which minimises asset failure risks and improves overall resilience across our core assets.

Join us, and you’ll rapidly broaden and deepen your skills, knowledge, and experience, working with collaborative and supportive colleagues in a directorate and organisation that’s passionate about its people. You’ll be able to unlock your full potential through our array of people initiatives and career progression frameworks. You’ll belong to a company which actively champions inclusivity and diversity, whilst also recognising the importance of a good work/life balance with flexible hybrid working to support personal wellbeing.

Main Responsibilities
You will direct and manage the development and implementation of major renewal and enhancement projects, funded by government, customer, stakeholder, or multiple funders, where Route Services assumes a sponsorship role. Deliver the project benefit realisation to agreed scope, time and cost.
- Build effective relationships, (internally & externally) to balance the requirements of the client, Route Services and the industry as a whole. Champion the interests of clients, customers and stakeholders acting as the focal point for escalation within the Route Services Programme.
- Review and interrogate client remits to confirm their viability. Work with internal and external stakeholders to establish a scope which optimises client requirements, value for money, network availability and capacity for future development and whole life cost.
- Be responsible for the conversion of the client remit into an agreed project requirements specification. Be accountable for the development of the initial project plan and budget; working with the project manager to specify how the project is going to be delivered, expected milestones and associated timescales, resource requirements, risks & issues and funding needs/sources.
- Produce business cases and investment papers for projects.
- Devise solutions which maintain the ‘business as usual’ accessibility for our customers, take consideration of the 7 day railway principles and therefore minimise disruption to end rail users. Take a national/route wide view across portfolios to generate additional benefits, identify and resolve conflicting work and drive efficiencies.
- Lead the process of quantifying risk associated with the project. Devise mitigating actions and periodically review recovery progress.
- Interrogate and challenge plans to assess the deliverability of agreed scope within stated timescales and cost parameters, presenting any required scope changes to the client for approval.
- Hold the Project Manager accountable for programme delivery to cost, time and scope parameters. Hold periodic reviews to understand and challenge delivery progress against the client remit. Communicate progress status against defined milestones and expectations to stakeholders putting contingency measures in place if required.
- Negotiate with customers and stakeholders on the project’s commercial and contractual terms in accordance with relevant corporate policy and strategy. Act as the focal point for negotiations and resolution of external scheme interface requirements, including any Parliamentary or Statutory processes, external consents issues to optimise the value of the scheme to Network Rail and funder(s).
- Comply with the requirements of investment regulations, other corporate governance and the Governance for Railway Investment Projects (GRIP). Adhere to corporate processes, including those related to safety, finance, legal and corporate affairs.
- Facilitate the discharge of the duties assigned by the Client to the CDM Co-ordinator [Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd] as detailed within the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2007 for the programme of projects allocated to you.
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent
- Experience of dealing with client portfolios and liaising with people at all levels
- Ability to articulate complex business problems into manageable work packages and produce synthesised logical solutions
- Proven ability to write coherently; conveying report / investment information in a concise manner
- Commercially astute, persuasive, and customer focused
- Proven influencing and negotiating skill
- Experience of leading a successful team

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