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Vacancy Details
Duration: Permanent, 4 positions available!
Location: This role is based in the Quadrant MK. This role is a full‑time opportunity, flexible working patterns will be considered. For Quadrant:MK, you must live within 90 minutes.
Band & Salary: Band 3C £55,596 – £65,966
About the Role
We are looking for dynamic procurement professionals to join our team, leading high‑value and complex sourcing projects. If you love to engage with your customers, thrive on using your own initiative, have great people skills and are passionate about making a difference, please read on.
This role sits in Route Services, a business area that supplies services to the routes in the safest, most cost‑efficient, and effective way, enabling them to benefit from economies of scale and optimised national resources.
Network Rail’s Commercial & Procurement team leads the development and delivery of commercial strategies encompassing the whole lifecycle of category strategies, sourcing, supplier management and procurement operations.
We are passionate about collaborating with our customers and the supply chain to buy and manage great commercial solutions that deliver value for passengers. You will be working in a highly collaborative team that offers excellent training and development opportunities.
Responsibilities
As a senior procurement professional, you will collaborate closely with your customers and our business experts to undertake pre‑market engagement with the supply chain, draft sourcing strategies and tender documentation. You will be the expert leading the sourcing project, conduct complex commercial evaluations, and lead negotiations with suppliers. You will identify the optimum strategic direction and implement contracting strategies that embrace change, innovation, and creative thinking.
* Improve safety – everyone home safe every day
* Be more sustainable
* Be more efficient
* Introduce innovation from the supply chain
* Provide creative contracting strategies
Experience in a regulated procurement environment is desirable.
Essential Criteria
* Educated to a business or economics degree standard or equivalent business experience
* Deep level of sourcing experience with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery
* Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skills
* Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management
* Experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities
* Experience with agile cross‑functional collaborative working methods
* Politically savvy with proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level
* Demonstrable problem‑solving experience for complex sourcing challenges
* Completer‑finisher mindset
Desirable Criteria
* Line management experience
* Detailed knowledge of the UK rail industry and procurement processes in a reclassified environment
Application Information
Closing date: 27 th April. On occasions, the advert may close early based on application volumes. Late applications may not be accepted.
Interviews will be held at the end of April, depending on business requirements.
Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should demonstrate awareness of our Safety Vision.
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks. More information is available at the company’s website.
Benefits
* 🌍 Flexible/hybrid working arrangements considered
* 🌞 Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days
* 🎁 Discounts at stations with your Network Rail pass
* Defined benefit pension scheme
* 🚂 75% subsidy on train tickets
* 🎟️ Interest‑free travel loan for train and car park season tickets
* 🕊️ Volunteer leave to make a positive impact
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