Head of Network Modelling - United Kingdom - Royal Mail Group

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Head of Network Modelling - National (Hybrid working but with regular travel to London)

Head of Network Modelling - National (Hybrid working but with regular travel to London)
Competitive salary
Car allowance
Healthcare
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering of 30days, plus bank holidays

Permanent,Full time

This is a hybrid working role with a requirement for frequent travel to our London headquarters in Farringdon, and to our other sites around the country, as and when required.

About the role

At Royal Mail we've served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. We're currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, and to get there, we need exceptionally talented, resilient, and driven people.

At the heart of that transformation journey is the National Operations Strategy and Design Team, in which this critical role will be embedded. The Head of Network Modelling will lead and grow a recently formed network modelling team, comprised of high calibre generalist and network specialist modellers. This is the first time in the history of Royal Mail that we have brought full Network Modelling capability in-house, making this an exceptionally interesting time to join. You will work as part of the Operations Strategy Team and closely with the Digital Transformation team, forming the ideas engine-room for Operations Transformation in the business. You will be responsible, in collaboration with the Director of Operations Strategy and Design, for defining the key questions that need answering to drive our network forward, translating these into a logical and robust series of discrete modelling tasks, managing and developing your team to execute, and engaging and communicating with senior stakeholders up to Exec Board level across the business in both an 'internal supplier' and 'internal customer' context.

This is a key leadership role in which you will need to be recognised as a digital leader and modelling SME across business, data, technology and modelling stakeholders, and manage senior stakeholders across multiple functions at the same time to ensure that a truly cross-functional view is taken on every piece of analysis.

You will also develop a team of experts proficient in modern established tooling to yield accelerated value, in particular network modelling tools and specifically Supply Chain Guru, but also the likes of PowerBI, Python, Advanced Excel.

You will be accountable to positively challenge and influence Executive Board and their Directors to optimise our strategy and transformation.

Reporting into the Director of Operations Strategy and Design
You will directly lead a team of 5 with the potential to expand the team.

If you feel this role would be for you, and you have the energy, skills and leadership to transform Royal Mail Operations, then would love to hear from you. Be part of Royal Mail's change story, get involved today and be part of the journey to transform our operations introducing cutting edge technology and ways of working that delights our customers. More details and how to apply can be found below.

This is a hybrid working role with a requirement for frequent travel to our London headquarters in Farringdon, and to our other sites around the country, as and when required.

Key Dimensions

Scales of impact (team, function, division, group wide)

• Group wide influence, utilising relationships internally with multiple senior stakeholders and externally with suppliers and partners.

Team size

• 5 Direct Reports, but potential to re-organise and expand team.

About You

To truly excel in this role, you'll possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

Key Skills

• Thrives on ambiguity, and gets the maximum insight out of imperfect or incomplete data-sets – able to move at pace working with whatever information is at hand
• Champion of good practices for producing replicable analyses and robust, insight focused models
• Brings actionable insight from all work – goes beyond simply completing tasks to understanding the heart of key business questions and flexing approach to fully answer them.
• Ability to get the best outcomes from individuals and teams, through positive influence over line management.
• Ability to manage a large and varied workload, to prioritise and multi-task, as well as delegate.
• Ability to communicate data-informed opportunities to business stakeholders and non-technical audiences.

Experience

• Direct sector experience (or demonstrable success in an adjacent sector) in postal and / or parcel.
• Influencing investment and being a leading voice in design of large-scale transformations
• Leadership of an effective network modelling and design team
• Demonstrable experience in constructing and maintaining complex network models, ideally in Supply Chain Guru, balancing cost, capex, service quality, time and other factors.
• Broad modelling expertise, and track record of driving projects at pace without sacrificing value of insights generated.
• Familiarity or proficiency with other tools or software to broaden the scope of the team would be highly welcome.

Qualifications

• Master's degree, or equivalent knowledge and practical experience, in a field with significant use of both computer programming and advanced modelling and quantitative methods

• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave

• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.

• Supportive and generous company sick pay

• Your Wellbeing -you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.

• Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.

• Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*

• Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner

• Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts

• Free stamps at Christmas
*Available only to perm employees

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don't, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

Closing Date: Friday 31st May 2024 Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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