Sourcing Manager - C&P

About Network Rail

Join Our Team at Network Rail! Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process

We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work-life balance. We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

Brief Description

Manage the sourcing activities for multi-million pound, medium cost and business risk opportunities, to include idea generation and innovation across complex spend categories and work collaboratively with relevant customers and stakeholders to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value.

About the role (External)

• Vacancy Type: Full-time but flexible working patterns will be considered.
• Duration: Permanent
• Salary: Band 3C (£55,596 - £63,797)
• Location: The Quadrant: MK

Are you a sourcing superstar? If so, we want you! 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.

Our team leads exciting infrastructure related sourcing projects including construction projects, professional consultancy, civils examinations, fencing and vegetation services, personal protective equipment, ecological services and specialist rail plant. All of which supports our vision to Putting Passengers First by keeping our rail infrastructure operational.

We’re a team of 20, with a great team ethos of supporting and developing each other. We enjoy regular team events together combining an element of learning as well as enjoying each other's company. You'll work closely with your customers and our business experts to undertake pre-market engagement with the supply chain, draft sourcing strategies and tender documentation. You'll be the expert leading the sourcing project, undertake complex commercial evaluations, including using your professional knowledge to lead negotiations with suppliers.

You will have excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, be proactive, have in-depth experience of the end-to-end procurement process, be happy to challenge and be challenged and be prepared to go above and beyond to support our customers. Understanding your customer's needs will put you in the best place to identify the optimum strategic direction and put in place contracting strategies that embrace change, innovation and creative thinking.

We want you to bring us new ideas to help us:

• improve safety - everyone home safe every day;
• be more sustainable;
• be more efficient - financially and programme management;
• introduce innovation from our supply chain;
• provide creative contracting strategies.

To help you find out more about the role we have created a candidate pack, linked below, which gives you an insight into what it's like to work at Network Rail including our purpose, our culture and values, pay and benefits, learning and development and how we create an inclusive environment for all.

For full details of what you'll be doing and the skills and experience you'll need, please see the attached job description.

Do you consider yourself to have a protected characteristic? If so and you require any additional support with your application, please do not hesitate to contact the Resourcer who will happily assist.

It would be great if you can demonstrate the below:

• Can demonstrate capability and experience of delivering end-to-end procurement (from specification receipt through to contract award) processes (public or private sector).
• Leads as part of a cross-functional team to understand requirements.
• Develops quality strategy documents for complex tenders that align with wider business and (relevant) external factors.
• Can demonstrate significant experience in developing tender documentation in line with the business requirements and objectives.
• Identifies perceived and relevant areas of risk using detailed analysis and records.
• Leads negotiation in tender processes.
• Demonstrates understanding of and delivers savings.

Desirable

• Has an understanding of public sector procurement legislation and can demonstrate the importance of managing compliant procurements in line with the regulations.
• Experience in delivering multi-million pound medium cost / medium risk business requirements (public or private sector).
• Line management experience.
• Is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply.
• Enables opportunities for innovation and benefits realisation.

For more information regarding the main responsibilities & essential criteria of this role, please find the full job description attached below.

How to apply (External)

Closing date: 3rd June 2025. Late applications will not be accepted.

This role requires working in the office 2/3 days a week.

What does our recruitment process look like? Once you have applied, our Recruitment Specialist will look at your CV. If your experience matches what we're looking for, you'll be invited to an interview.

Network Rail Benefits

We offer excellent benefits, including:

• Flexible working patterns such as working from home and working compressed hours.
• A range of pension schemes.
• Healthcare Scheme.
• Rail and underground season ticket subsidies up to 75%.
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and volunteering days (5 days).
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• GymPass - Access to gyms across the UK.
• Access to 'My Benefits' portal which include discounts in food, technology, and experience days.

All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.