Senior Strategic Planner – Network Rail

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Full time
Location: Cardiff
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Job offered by: Women in Rail
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To apply please click ‘Enquire Now’ below

Welsh translation included on the ‘enquire now’ link. About Network Rail At Network Rail, we’re part of a large family serving millions of passengers and freight users throughout the UK every day. Our service impacts millions of people and we strive to become more efficient as we enhance, maintain, and operate our network. Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. When you’re part of our team, you matter to us, and you matter to millions. About our people and the recruitment process

– We’re an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! As a Network Rail employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits! Privileged staff travel – Leisure travel discount of 75% on all leisure travel and includes family members. A subsidy of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets if you travel to work on the train. GWR ticket alliance – Heavily discounted all day passes for you and up to 3 friends and family to use across the GWR network. Benefits package including healthcare offers, a cycle to work scheme, discounted healthcare club membership, and a discounted offers and benefits including childcare, healthcare and online shopping site. A range of Pension schemes to choose from. Effectively manage work-life balance with a 35hrs per week contract, hybrid working, flexible working, flexible leave, and enhanced family friendly support. 2 weeks paid reserve leave for the Armed Forces community. This role within the Customer, Strategy & Investment Team in the Wales & Borders Route, will be responsible for leading strategies and developing choices for funders for the 10 to 30 year strategic planning horizon. Your Main Responsibilities will be to: Facilitation of cross-functional input to the development of route plans. Develop route plans for specified routes, both from internal perspective (i.e. Operating Route / Area) and external perspective (i.e. by strategic route), making decisions based on the needs and priorities of stakeholders to make certain that they are being met (e.g. regulatory outputs and customer commitments). Co-ordinate analysis for capacity studies, taking into account the existing capability, contractual & regulatory obligations, and the implications of expected future traffic levels. Review route plans for consistency with other industry plans, particularly relating to new rolling stock. Prepare Route Plans (forming part of the business plan suite of documents) and long-term projections of maintenance and renewals and outputs for each strategic route. Review new franchises specifications to ensure that they are consistent with our route plans and that the performance impact of revised specifications is acceptable. Review maintenance and renewal plans for consistency with route strategies and making sure renewals and enhancement projects reflect the needs of the route. You will ideally have Experience of network strategy and business planning. Understanding of the basic infrastructure issues which influence capacity. Good relationship management with good experience of cross-functional, collaborative working. Good communication skills (both written and verbal). Good commercial and financial awareness, including understanding economic trade-off analysis. Knowledge of rail industry and commercial framework. What could set you apart Knowledge of Network Rail’s sponsorship and investment processes and procedures. Knowledge of project development and delivery processes. A wide-ranging knowledge of the customers and assets of the route. Salary:

This role is a 3B £46,701- £52,538 per annum. Closing date:

10th January 2025. Late applications will not be accepted. Please note this is a 14 Month FTC. Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.

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