Portfolio Manager

4 weeks ago


York, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Brief Description

Are you a hard-working individual, ready to take on a key project delivery role working on a portfolio of major enhancements projects?

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Major Projects and Programmes Team as Portfolio Manager (formerly Scheme Project Manager).

It’s an exciting time to join the Major Projects and Programmes team. We have a significant portfolio of projects, at all stages within the delivery lifecycle. Our projects, such as the Northumberland Line, make a big difference to local communities.

The successful candidate will be accountable for working as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting the project or programme manager to deliver key outputs of complex projects and programmes (LoC 1 and 2) in order to meet client requirements to time, cost, quality, and performance.

About the role (External)

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

Manage the production of a robust development and approval in principle for assigned projects, focussing on specific and measurable outcomes, benefits and requirements, to allow an unambiguous procurement exercise and efficient contract award. Identify and contribute to the securing of optimum options for clients and funders. Analyse various schedule and cost options, contribute to the planning, alignment and delivery of the assigned projects. Identify access strategies for assigned projects to achieve optimum balance between affordable, deliverable and of minimal impact to passenger and freight colleagues in alignment with Putting Passenger First Principles. Implement funding mechanisms for assigned projects to secure optimum incremental funding, embodying and promoting project SPEED and PACE Principles in the approach to investment proposals and decisions. Specify appropriate, specific and measurable KPI / KRA into the pre-contract documentation for assigned projects to provide a foundation for active monitoring and measurement throughout the contract phase. Implement established contracting and procurement strategies for assigned projects within Legislative, Corporate Governance and procurement guidelines, adopting Agile Client Principles to transfer delivery and integration responsibility to the supply chain wherever appropriate. Undertake evaluation of supplier proposals to support timely contract award for assigned projects, in alignment with the overall programme objectives and strategic objectives of the Portfolio or Major Project. Implement the strategy for the contracting and financial authorisation processes of assigned projects to support a timely, risk managed approach to contract award, embodying Agile Client and PACE principles. Provide facilitation and contribute to the management of a progressive programme of Three Lines of Defence Level 1 assurance reviews within assigned projects. Maintain the measurement and monitoring of discharged and delegated responsibilities for assigned projects, generally for core systems and processes compliance, with particular focus on responsibilities under the Construction Design Management 2015 regulations. Monitor the assurance framework appropriate to the stages of assigned projects, review the supply chain compliance with standard requirements and those identified in the specification stage and also the core requirements of delivering safely to time, cost and quality.

Personal Qualities

Strong interpersonal skills Proactive and self-motivated Open and keen to develop.

Essential:

Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience. Membership (or working towards membership) of the Association for Project Management. Achieved PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent. Successful relevant experience including experience of contracting and project delivery. Knowledge and experience of project budget management. Project safety management and Health and Safety legislation knowledge. Knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Understanding of procurement principles and processes. Understanding and previous application of assurance principles and processes. Knowledge of the Three Lines of Defence Assurance Model Demonstrable experience of effective team working, helping and supporting others and sharing knowledge skills and experience. Demonstrable experience of seeking ways to improve ways of working, being open to change and doing things differently. Demonstrable experience of being focussed on their own and others safety and in understanding the implications of their behaviour and the safety rules. Demonstrable understanding of how the role influences the customers' experience. Demonstrable experience of having a positive attitude about work and change and demonstrating positive working behaviours.

It would be advantageous if you have:

Knowledge of the PACE Framework Experience of application of Construction Design Management (CDM) on projects. Knowledge of Network Rail’s Project, Investment, Commercial and Procurement practices. Experience with NEC4 contracts. Experience in risk identification, assessment, and mitigation. Experience of incident investigation/reporting, with site experience. Knowledge of relevant Health & Safety legislation.

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