Job Description

Employees will be entitled to a discretionary 75% discount off leisure travel this includes off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to 75% discount on season tickets.
Network Rail Benefits -
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Transpennine Route Upgrade
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is the largest Infrastructure project in the North delivering xc2xa310.7 billion Programme of activities that is improving the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield.
Stretching across the North of England, this key 76-mile Transpennine railway serves 23 stations, crosses over and dips under 285 bridges and viaducts, passes through six miles of tunnels, and crosses over 11 level crossings.
Proposed improvements as will deliver a hard-working, reliable railway for passengers, allowing for trains with more seats, more services and faster journey times.
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Brief Description
The role advertised is to provide Commercial Support to the wider Commercial teams at all levels in support of the TRU central portfolio of projects. Within this role you will be responsible for Assisting Commercial team members by caring out day to day commercial activities.
This role will be utilised to support our W2BC project which is in the early stages of construction/design. The aim of this project is to transform the TransPennine main line to bring passengers more frequent, faster, greener trains, running on a better, cleaner, and more reliable railway. While some elements of the programme are still being designed and developed, our major programme of work continues, to bring better journeys for passengers across the Pennines and beyond. The W2BC project is a hub and spoke model as part of the main programme of TRU works, with 6 spokes to work with, the project spans over 10 years and has a budget of Circa xc2xa31.5bn. While this project is in the design stage it is the perfect time for someone to start on the project and really get embedded into the team.
The main responsibilities for this role will be to assist the Commercial Manager in pre-contract activities and evaluating and agreeing the value of payments and variations for a variety of works throughout the Route.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic individual who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and is passionate about delivering impactful business outcomes. The ideal needs confidence to manage complex information and work independently at times. This is an exciting and challenging Commercial role within an existing team structure to mentor and support your development. You will develop an understanding and capability of the TRU Commercial processes and procedures.
Key qualities:

• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines

• Good administration and analytical skills

• Good interpersonal and relationship building skills

• Good commercial awareness

• A customer focussed approach

• Railway knowledge

• Experience of working within a generalist commercial environment

• Awareness of industry issues

• Demonstrable experience in commercially managing investment projects

• Demonstrable relevant experience

• Good understanding of railway and construction industry forms of contract

• Good understanding of the construction/railway industry

• Good negotiation skills

• Demonstrable skills in initiating and building positive working relationships with customers, their team and stakeholders.

• Demonstrable experience of seeking ways to improve ways of working, being open to change and doing things differently

• Demonstrable experience of being output driven, prioritising work to deliver on time and taking ownership in their role

• Demonstrates an ability to make timely decisions and to think ahead

• Demonstrable experience of having a positive attitude about work and change and demonstrating positive working behaviours

About the role (External)
Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:
1. Assist in the measurement and evaluation of the commercial value of payments, monitoring the correct certification of works prior to authorisation in accordance with contractual obligations.
2. Assist with the reporting on all commercial aspects of allocated projects.
3. Assist in the preparation of contract specification and pre-tender documentation.
4. Assist with the general procurement/commercial management on a variety of contract categories.
We need you to have:

• Ability to work to deadlines.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Basic level of commercial awareness

• Basic negotiation skills with ability to influence decision making.

• Computer literate including ability to utilise in-house and external software.

It would be advantageous if you have:

• Able to effectively communicate at the appropriate levels, both internally and externally

• Membership of an appropriate professional organisation, or working towards membership

• Experience of using electronic sourcing and/or procurement systems

How to apply (External)
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Network Rail Benefits -
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.
Drugs & Alcohol test: All prospective candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced
Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do, safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should be able to demonstrate your to safety and awareness in your application.
Salary: xc2xa328,000 per annum depending on experience
This role can be based in the following locations: Leeds Whitehall Quay
Closing date: 3rd June 2025. Late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.