Key Information

Role: Associate Sponsor

Salary: £35,582 to £42,218 per annum

Location: York or Leeds

Contract Type: Permanent

Office Requirement: 3 days per week minimum, including site working where required anywhere between York & Manchester

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

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.

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Transpennine Route Upgrade

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a 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 29 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.

For more information visit www.theTRUpgrade.co.uk

Develop an understanding and capability of the sponsor role through shadowing, managing, and supporting projects/programmes, funded by government, customer, stakeholder, or multiple funders, where Network Rail assumes a sponsorship role. Drive the development and implementation of specific small / medium sized schemes as directed by the lead sponsor.

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

1. Work as part of the sponsor team to manage the development and implementation of specific schemes and work streams as directed by the lead sponsor.

2. Support the interests of the funder, customer, or stakeholder where appropriate within Network Rail.

3. Actively participate in the remit process; review and comment on client, customer, and stakeholder requirements to test the viability of proposed schemes taking in to account value for money, network availability and capacity for future development and whole life cost.

4. Under direction, produce investment papers for small / medium sized schemes and support the business case process.

5. Provide input to the development of the initial project plan and budget; working with the lead sponsor and project manger to specify how the project will be delivered, expected milestones, and associated timescales, risks, and issues.

6. Monitor progress on projects/programmes against agreed budgets, delivery plans and work programmes, challenge delivery partners as appropriate to correct adverse trends.

7. Communicate and report project progress status to the lead sponsor, client, customer, and stakeholders against defined and agreed milestones.

8. Support the process of quantifying risk associated with the portfolio of projects. Work with the lead sponsor to devise mitigating actions and periodically review recovery progress.

9. Participate in negotiations with customers and stakeholders on commercial and contractual terms in accordance with relevant corporate policy and strategy.

10. Comply with the requirements of corporate investment regulations, and adhere to corporate processes, including those related to finance, legal and corporate affairs.

We need you to have: -

• Experience of dealing with people at all levels.

• Ability to communicate and articulate clearly and concisely.

• Proven ability to write coherently, conveying report / investment information in a concise manner.

• Commercially astute, persuasive, and customer focused.

• Influencing and negotiating skills

It would be advantageous if you have: -

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.

• Knowledge / understanding of the railway industry.

• Knowledge / understanding of project environments.

• Experience in negotiating contracts

• Ability to work flexibly across a varied portfolio, including an appetite for working with uncertainty.