Sourcing Specialist

5 months ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Job Introduction
This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to our front-line teams and corporate business functions in the safest, most efficient, and effective way.

We are looking for enthusiastic people with some experience or high interest in procurement to join our team, leading low-medium value sourcing projects.

If you love to engage with your customers, thrive on using your own initiative, have great people skills and are passionate about making a difference, please read on.

Our team leads exciting infrastructure related sourcing projects including construction projects, professional consultancy, civils examinations, fencing and vegetation services, personal protective equipment, ecological services and specialist rail plant. All of which supports our vision to Putting Passengers First by keeping our rail infrastructure operational.

We’re a team of 20, with a great team ethos of supporting and developing each other. We enjoy regular team events together combining an element of learning as well as enjoying each other’s company.

You’ll 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’ll lead the sourcing project with support from end-to-end, developing your skills as you do so. You will have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have some experience or a high level of interest in the end-to-end procurement process, be happy to challenge and be prepared to go above and beyond 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 programme management;
- introduce innovation from our supply chain; and
- provide creative contracting strategies

Main Responsibilities
Manage the sourcing activities for medium cost and business risk opportunities and work collaboratively with relevant customers and stakeholders to create and deliver commercial and contractual value.
- Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for medium cost and business risk opportunities, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver commercial and contractual value, in support of the C&P Director’s annual savings target
- Implement approved Integrated Category Strategies (ICS) through the development and delivery of the qualified Sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant Category Manager and relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits value committed to within the ICS
- Negotiate sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets where applicable, in support of the C&P Director’s savings target
- Facilitate the transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature and position the Supplier Management team to optimise their delivery of full contractual and relationship value
- Demand manage customer and stakeholder common sourcing requirements to maximise overall Group-wide commercial value, with a politically aware engagement and direct influencing style across multiple Routes and Regions, in a complex, devolved organisation
- Develop process and execute activity related to contract variations, amendments and changes, to include contract administration, in collaboration with Supplier Management team, to maintain an accurate supplier data profile in the event of dispute or the invoking of contingency plans
- Develop and manage sourcing aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver an enhanced customer experience, aligned to the Vision and best in class Procurement ambition

**Do you have the following skills and experience?**

Essential
- Educated to a Business or Economics degree standard or equivalent business experience
- Demonstrable level of Sourcing experience, with a track record of savings delivery
- Experience with negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
- Experience with contract law and financial management
- Experience with driving value from sourcing opportunities
- Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods
- Politically aware, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level
- Experience of problem-solving complex sourci

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