Commercial Manager - C&P

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Sector: Sales and Business Development
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
Join Network Rail - Where People and Connections Matter.

At Network Rail, we're dedicated to keeping passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country. When you join us, you're not just part of a team - you're part of something that matters to millions. We believe that our people are at the heart of what we do, and every role plays a vital part in building a better, more connected railway.

We're committed to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace that reflects the communities we serve. We value flexibility and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. As a Disability Confident Leader, we'll do everything we can to accommodate any needs throughout the recruitment process.

If you're ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!

We offer excellent benefits, including:
Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.
Defined benefit pension scheme.
75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets.
Up to 75% off leisure travel.
Interest-free travel loan for train and car park season tickets.
Discounts at stations with your Network Rail pass.
Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
Volunteer leave to make a positive impact.
Healthcare Scheme, GymPass discounts, Cycle to work plus more.
Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support our employees during significant life moments.

Brief Description
Are you interested in a role supporting the Network Rail Commercial management team to manage materials, operations, and logistics contracts? This role provides a broad remit across a breadth of contract types that will deliver tangible improvements to passenger and stakeholder performance metrics across the network.

This is a vital role in our Materials, Operations and Logistics (MOL) team within the Route Services Commercial and Procurement function. You will be part of a small specialist commercial team delivering supplier and commercial management. You will be working closely with the MOL post contract and sourcing team and Supply Chain Operations business management teams to help deliver the strategy and framework under which SCO commercial management is run.

To succeed in this role, you will need to work in line with Network Rail's Commercial Management Framework, to include the administration of commercial assurance and governance practices, support of commercial negotiations and disputes, efficiencies and continuous improvement targets, whilst supporting our contract teams to meet all regulatory requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the Commercial and Supply Chain Operations teams to manage contract administrative controls and monitoring requirements (using BravoNR e-procurement system and Oracle for spend management).
• Support internal and external assurance and governance requirements for extensions, variations and novations of contracts.
• Support regulatory requirements associated with managing contracts, to ensure compliance with legislation.
• Support on contractual issues and negotiations.
• Complete audits of supplier obligations to ensure they are being carried out in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Develop rapport and trust at all levels within our customer teams to deliver a support service that adds value and meets business needs.

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

• Previous post contract commercial management experience related to the types of activities identified in the Main Responsibilities section, in either public or private sector environments.
• Previous experience of successfully dealing with contracts including evidence of focused delivery.
• Evidence of building a strong rapport and relationships at all levels with customers and stakeholders.
• Experience of supporting cross-functional teams to deliver results for customers.

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.

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.

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 encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.