Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Supplier Manager - Inside IR35
Contract Term: 12months
Contracting Authority: Network Rail
Location: Milton Keynes – 2 days in the office
Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!
As a Supplier Manager your main responsibilities will be:
- Ownership of 15 to 20 complex multi-million pound, medium cost and business risk assessed contracts, utilising the full implementation of the Supplier Management Framework, to meet all governance, regulatory, risk-reward and exit strategy requirements and deliver the full commercial and contractual value negotiated by Sourcing
- Develop and implement annual joint supplier account plans, to access scarce supplier resources and deliver significant relationship generation-based value beyond what the supplier committed to at the time of Sourcing-led contract negotiation and contract signature, working collaboratively with the relevant Category Manager/s and Sourcing Manager/s, together with all relevant customers and stakeholders
- Implementation of the full Meeting Governance Framework for specifically led suppliers, to include executive sponsorship, delivering a single, joined up supplier managed led approach, one supplier dialogue and engagement model throughout Network Rail, to secure the best cost and value led deal through supplier demand management, savvy selling strategies across multiple Routes and Regions to aggregate demand, in a complex, devolved organisation
- Facilitate the development and implementation of ideas and supplier enabled innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external market expertise to solve
- Drive the full day-to-day operational service and contractual performance value from the supplier contract and relationship, in support of the customer and stakeholders’ business case and service delivery requirements, working collaboratively with the relevant business-based Supplier Performance Manager
- Negotiation and implementation of significant incremental cost savings and benefits throughout the contract lifecycle through expert negotiation leadership, in support of the C&P Director’s annual cost savings target
- Facilitate and manage contractual changes throughout the contract lifecycle, resultant from complex evolving business and specification requirements, in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, for the accurate management and reporting on cost, risk and service performance indicators
- Develop and manage contract aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver accurate progress reporting against each baseline contract in the Balanced Scorecard and to lead cross-functional alignment/learnings, aligned to the Vision and best in class Procurement ambition
- Develop the external market supplier management practices within the Supplier Management team, to enable the implementation of good practice and move towards a recognised best in class capability, in support of the employer of choice ambition
Essential:
- Educated to a Business or Economics degree standard or equivalent business experience
- Deep level of Procurement experience, to include Supplier Management
- Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management
- Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set
- Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex supplier contracts and relationships
- Ability to deliver defined relationship and commercial value and deliver continuous improvement value
- Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods
- Politically savvy, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level
- Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience of complex supplier specific challenges
- Completer finisher mindset
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]
Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, Network Rail guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected].
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
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