Associate Sponsor - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Network Rail

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3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Associate Sponsor


Location:

Glasgow, GB


Department Name:

Head of Route Sponsorship


About Network Rail:

At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more


Scotland's Railway is part of this family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network.

We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services.

We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network.

We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.


Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don't always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.


Brief Description:

Scotland's Railway's Strategy & Investment team are shaping the railway of the future.

We are defining what the railway can deliver for Scotland and turning that into reality through a programme of transformational investment.

At the heart of everything we do is Scotland's commitment to Net Zero.

This means we are creating and shaping a railway for everyone that encourages cars and lorries off the road and onto trains, whilst leading a major programme of investment to make our trains even greener.


We do this by working as a team to define the benefits our investment must deliver, develop strategies, solve complex problems, make decisions, and build the case for investment.

Communication and relationship building is key to our success as we work with a very wide range of internal and external stakeholders and lead presentation of our proposals to Scottish Government.


Our team, based in Glasgow, would now like to welcome new team members to work with us on delivering for Scotland.

We encourage flexibility and have many different working patterns in place across all roles in the team.


About the role (External):


Here are some of the duties your role will include: -

  • Work as part of the sponsor team to manage the development and implementation of specific schemes and work streams as directed by the lead sponsor. This may include a mix of smaller schemes which you will sponsor on your own or work as part of a larger team on more complex projects and programmes.
  • Build effective relationships, (internally & externally) to support the development of requirements for our investment, balancing the requirements of the client, Network Rail, and the industry as a whole.
  • Champion the interests of clients, customers, communities, and stakeholders on your projects.
  • Actively participate in the remit process; review and comment on client, customer, and stakeholder requirements to test the viability of proposed schemes taking in to account value for money, network availability and capacity for future development and whole life cost.
  • Under direction, produce investment papers for small / medium sized schemes and support the business case process.
  • Support your sponsorship team with the delivery of the project benefits, defining, tracking, communicating, and promoting them throughout the life of the project.
  • Provide input to the development of the initial project plan and budget; working with the lead sponsor and project manager to specify how the project will be delivered, expected milestones, and associated timescales, risks, and issues.
  • Monitor progress on projects/programmes against agreed budgets, delivery plans and work programmes, challenge delivery partners as appropriate to correct adverse trends and protect the delivery of the benefits.
  • Support the process of quantifying risk associated with the portfolio of projects. Work with the lead sponsor to devise mitigating actions and periodically review recovery progress.

What you will bring to the role: -

  • Experience of dealing with people at all levels
  • Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and concisely
  • Proven ability to write coherently; conveying report / investment information in a concise manner
  • Commercially astute, persuasive, and customer focused
  • Influencing and negotiating skills

It's desirable if you have it to help give you context to the role: -

  • Qualified to degree level or equivalent
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