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About the Role
Provide assurance to HS2 Ltd. and other stakeholders that HS2 Ltd.’s commercial controls, from procurement through management of awarded contracts to contract completion, deliver value for taxpayer’s money. This role is integral to supporting HS2 Ltd.’s delivery against the HMT’s “Managing Public Money”.
Responsibilities
- Lead independent reviews of procurement and investment decision-making LoD2 commercial assurance activity across the procurement lifecycle and post-contract award, acting as an advocate and champion for the brand and integrity of assurance.
- Lead procurement and contract management assurance activity at key stages of the procurement and investment lifecycle, in line with the applicable assurance framework, and produce assurance reports.
- Work with teams such as Commercial Compliance/Procurement to ensure conclusions from assurance reviews and compliance analyses are understood, prioritised, and fed into improvement plans.
- Lead the delivery of specific initiatives to support the Senior Commercial Assurance Manager in implementing and embedding the HS2 commercial assurance policy, strategy, procedures, and reporting format across the organisation.
- Lead the delivery of continuous improvement activities of the commercial assurance and investment decision-making assurance framework.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate effective and timely assurance reviews and maintain a plan of an accurate pipeline of assurance activity.
- Analyze assurance findings to identify and report on opportunities and common insights across assurance reviews to support HS2’s continuous commercial learning and delivering value for taxpayer’s money.
- Manage external assurance partner resources to deliver agreed outputs within agreed contract value.
- Maintain good working relationships with partners (e.g. Department for Transport, Network Rail, P-Rep, IAP), and other assurance providers within and outside HS2 Ltd.
- Contribute to the development of assurance engagement and training materials that support the delivery of effective assurance throughout the HS2 programme.
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
Requirements
- Ability to lead the end-to-end delivery of assurance reviews to a professional standard and to agreed deadlines, working with assurance providers, both internally and from 3rd parties.
- Ability to identify and scope the impact of assurance findings, and communicate the implications to a range of audiences.
- Ability to engage with and influence senior management and executives.
- Experience with cross-functional collaborative working methods.
- Experience of delivering procurement and contract management assurance across a major programme, or a complex organisation, with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in managing multiple workloads/work strands with varying deadlines.
- Assurance, internal control or audit experience within both the private and public sector is preferable.
- Must have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.
- Must not have certain types of time-bound visas.
- Satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks including Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
Skills
- Excel
- MS Project
- PowerPoint
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Team-working
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Depending on skills and experience
Education Level
- Degree level or equivalent
- Professional procurement and/or assurance qualifications (e.g. MCIPS/Audit) or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- £44380 pa to £52212 pa
- 20% flexible benefits fund paid on top base salary
Benefits
- Flexible benefits fund
- Competitive benefits (details on company website)
About the Company
- HS2 Ltd will be the UK’s new high speed rail network.
- The new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
- HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent.
- We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
- HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation.
- Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
Equal Opportunity
- HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
- We are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
- CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review to remove bias.