Lead Portfolio Manager

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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
Vacancy: Lead Portfolio Manager
Location: York
Salary: 55,596 to 63,797
Role Type: 15 Month Secondment
Network Rail Benefits: At Network Rail, you will have a clear development path with access to training and additional qualifications. You can enjoy a range of employee benefits, such as up to 28 days annual leave, 75% of Leisure Travel and Season Ticket for travel, a range of pension options, flexible and agile working arrangements, healthcare, discounts on shopping, gym memberships, and much more.

Join Network Rail - Where People and Connections Matter

At Network Rail, we're dedicated to keeping passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country. When you join us, you're not just part of a team - you're part of something that matters to millions. We believe that our people are at the heart of what we do, and every role plays a vital part in building a better, more connected railway.

We're committed to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace that reflects the communities we serve. We value flexibility and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. As a Disability Confident Leader, we'll do everything we can to accommodate any needs throughout the recruitment process.

If you're ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!

Brief Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead Portfolio/Project Manager to join the Signalling and Telecoms Capital Programmes team, based in York, covering the North and East and East Coast Routes within the Eastern Region of Network Rail.

As Lead Portfolio Manager, you will lead the development and management of some of our existing projects within the portfolio of re-signalling, life extension, and level crossing projects and support the development of new projects for delivery in CP7. The role will require a minimum office attendance of three days per week.

Key Accountabilities

1. Control and lead the development of robust Development/Approval in Principle for assigned projects, focusing on specific and measurable outcomes, benefits, and requirements, to achieve an unambiguous procurement exercise and efficient contract award.
2. Identify and secure optimum options for clients and funders considering programme/schedule and cost options, contribute to the strategic planning, alignment, and delivery of the business case for the assigned projects.
3. Develop access strategies for assigned projects in collaboration with Regional colleagues to achieve an optimum balance between affordable, deliverable and minimal impact to passenger and freight colleagues in alignment with Putting Passenger First Principles.
4. Develop funding strategies for assigned projects to secure optimum incremental funding, embodying and promoting project SPEED and PACE Principles in the approach to investment proposals and decisions.
5. Develop the specification and early-stage embedment of 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.
6. Develop and implement 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.
7. Conduct evaluation of supplier proposals to achieve timely contract award for assigned projects, in alignment with the overall programme objectives and strategic objectives of the Portfolio.
8. Contribute to establishing the strategy for the contracting and financial authorisation processes of assigned projects to achieve a timely, risk-managed approach to contract award, embodying Agile Client and PACE principles.
9. Develop the facilitation and management of a progressive programme of Level 1 assurance reviews within assigned projects and undertake Level 2 assurance activities within the wider capital delivery portfolio as directed. Implement 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 (CDM) 2015 regulations.
10. Establish, implement, and monitor the assurance framework appropriate to the stages of assigned projects within the Portfolio/PACE project lifecycle, implement an assurance regime that monitors 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/quality.

Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Membership (or working towards membership) of the Association for Project Management or other relevant Professional Membership.
• Demonstrable commercial focus and financially astute.
• Demonstrable project safety management practice and knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and best practice.
• Knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.
• Knowledge of procurement principles and processes.
• Knowledge and demonstrable previous application of assurance principles and processes.
• Demonstrable experience of the application of Construction Design Management (CDM) and the Common Safety Method (CSM).
• Knowledge and application of the Three Lines of Defence Assurance Model.
• Demonstrable experience of bringing different people together; promoting working as one team.
• Demonstrable experience of challenging self and others to improve services and approaches.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting the physical and mental well-being and safety of themselves and colleagues and of challenging business and safety-related risks.
• Demonstrable ability to work proactively through complex issues.
• Demonstrable experience of thinking through the cost, business priorities and customer implications of their decisions.

Desirable

• Detailed Knowledge of Investment, Commercial and Procurement regulations and practices.
• Demonstrable experience of the application of PACE.
• Formal qualifications in risk identification and assessment.
• Knowledge of Network Rail's assets and how they are managed.

Don't meet every requirement?
We encourage you to apply for this role. If this isn't the job for you, there may be other roles available in the wider team.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges - but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We're proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it's vital to get each individual's training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn't just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits - Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers - cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

'Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. 'Inclusion' means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail - making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment process here.