Procurement Manager

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Brief Description
Are you interested in being involved in procurements which shape the future of our railways? Are you interested in working on a varied range of high value and complex procurement activities? If so, this role is an exciting opportunity to explore.
About the role (External)
Role: Procurement Manager

Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered.

Duration: Permanent

Salary: Band 4B (35,582 - 40,830)

Locations: The Quadrant Milton Keynes

This role sits within the Directs sourcing team within 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.

The team are responsible for conducting sourcing events for innovative solutions and design delivery within the major signalling and railway systems space, ensuring value for money is achieved through applying your commercial expertise and interpersonal skills. You will also be required to work in accordance with public sector procurement regulations. This role provides opportunities for a varied workload and would suit an individual seeking new challenges.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A willingness to grow through exposure to new categories and the willingness to take on new challenges.
• A desire to learn and a commitment to proactive personal development.
• Experience in developing and implementing sourcing strategies using a structured sourcing process, aligned to business needs and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills to support stakeholder management and cross-functional working.
• Aptitude for commercial problem solving in the context of a large and complex organisation.
• 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.
• An appetite to support the wider team on high cost and complex projects.

Sound interested? This is what you will need to have:

Essential

• Recognised skills in contractual and commercial matters, with credibility and experience to act as advisor to other staff.
• Successful procurement background with practical intermediate level experience.
• Contributed towards maintaining successful relationships with suppliers.
• Knowledge of relevant contract terms.
• Strong negotiation skills.

Desirable

• Membership of appropriate professional institution.

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. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it's crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

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 encourages 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.

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