Sourcing Manager
Job Introduction
Are you a sourcing superstar? If so, we want you!
We are looking for dynamic procurement professionals to join our team, leading high value and complex 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.
This role sits in Route Services, a business area that has been created to supply services to the routes in the safest, most cost-efficient and effective way, enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.
Network Rail’s Commercial & Procurement (C&P) leads the development and delivery of commercial strategies encompassing the whole lifecycle of category strategies, sourcing, supplier management and procurement operations.
We are passionate about working with our customers and the supply chain to buy and manage great commercial solutions that deliver value for passengers.
The successful candidate will join the Corporate Services sourcing team within the Route Services C&P team and be required to hit the ground running by leading procurement activities for our internal customers. The successful candidate must have relevant knowledge and experience of public sector procurement and be able to lead compliant and high profile tender activities.
Some of the Categories covered by the Corporate Services Sourcing team include (but not limited to); HR, Occupational Health, Training, Supplies and Services, Facilities, Asset Management, Professional Services, Insurance and Consultancy
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 be the expert leading the sourcing project, undertake complex commercial evaluations, including using your professional knowledge to lead negotiations with suppliers. You will have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have in depth experience of the end-to-end procurement process, be happy to challenge and be challenged 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.
For full details of what you’ll be doing and the skills and experience you’ll need, please see the attached job description below.
Do you consider yourself to have a protected characteristic? If so and you require any additional support with your application please do not hesitate to contact the Resourcer who will happily assist.
Click ‘apply for this job’ to apply. If you would like to speak the Resourcing Team, please contact Emily.Smith3@networkrail.co.uk
Main Responsibility
For full details of what you’ll be doing and the skills and experience you’ll need, please see the attached job description below
Package Description
Vacancy type: Permanent
Location: Nationwide
Closing date: 3rd August 2023
Band & Salary: Band 3C £55,596 - £62,546
Are you interested in being involved in the procurement of innovative rail technology solutions where you can apply your expertise to a variety of products and services? Or working on complex procurement activities? If so, these roles are exciting opportunities to explore.
Open the Candidate Pack attached below to find out more or hear what some of our brilliant team members think about Network Rail in this video
About the Company
At Network Rail, we own, repair and develop the railway infrastructure in England, Scotland and Wales. We exist to get people and goods where they need to be and to support our country’s economic prosperity. Rail is already the greenest form of public transport and we’re on a journey to a cleaner, greener future.
We’re an organisation where people matter. We matter to millions.
We offer excellent benefits, including:
- Flexible working patterns such as working from home and working compressed hours
- A range of pension schemes
- Healthcare Benefits
- Rail and underground season ticket subsidies up to 75%
- 75% discount on leisure travel that can also be used by your immediate family members.
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and volunteering days (5 days)
- 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- GymPass – Access to gyms across the UK
- Access to ‘My Benefits’ portal which include discounts in food, technology and experience days
In 2023, we achieved Stonewall Top 100 Employer status.
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We are committed to a diverse workplace enriched with representation from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and skills. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where difference is embraced, and individuals can thrive. We recognise that the success of the team is dependent on a multi-cultural, multi-disciplined group of individuals, aligned to deliver successful solutions.
We're undertaking an ambitious change. Our vision is Putting Passengers First - becoming a company that is on the side of passengers and freight users. As one of the UK’s leading equal opportunities employers, our values and the way we behave is important to us and we have created an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution. We have seven employee networks that provide fantastic support, opportunities and development for applicants from all backgrounds. Click here for more information
Please note, all prospective external candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on the Sentinel database and will incur a five-year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification, or a key safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure.
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