Senior Sponsor - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Network Rail

Network Rail

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior 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: -

Build effective relationships, (internally & externally) to determine the 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 acting as the focal point for escalation within Network Rail.
Convert the client remit into an agreed project requirement specification. Be accountable for development of the initial project plan and budget; working with the project manager to specify how the project portfolio is going to be delivered, expected milestones, and associated timescales, resource requirements, risks & issues, and funding needs/sources.
Own and manage the delivery of the project benefits, defining, tracking, communicating, and promoting them throughout the life of the project.
Own and manage the development and communication of business cases and investment papers.
Interrogate and challenge plans to assess the deliverability of agreed scope and benefits within stated timescales and cost parameters, presenting any required scope and outputs changes to the client for approval.
Hold the Project Manager accountable for programme delivery to cost, time and scope parameters. Hold periodic reviews to understand and challenge delivery progress against the client remit and assess confidence in the delivery of the benefits. Communicate progress status against defined milestones and expectations to stakeholders putting contingency measures in place if required.
Progress cost efficiencies and process improvements across the project portfolio to meet targets.
Lead negotiations with customers and stakeholders on the project portfolio's commercial and contractual terms in accordance with relevant corporate policy and strategy. Act as the focal point for negotiations and resolution of external scheme interface requirements, including any Parliamentary or Statutory processes, external consents issues to optimise the value of the scheme to Network Rail and funder(s).

What you will bring to the role: -

Qualified to degree level or equivalent
Experience of dealing with client portfolios and liaising with people at all levels
Ability to articulate complex business problems i