Associate Director

15 hours ago

Sydney, Australia Network Rail Consulting Full time

**About us**:
Network Rail Consulting (NRC) is the international consultancy arm of Network Rail, the owner of Britain’s railway.

Our work is driven by our values**: passion, agility, collaboration, impartiality.**

In Australia, Network Rail Consulting has a growing team of rail industry specialists permanently based in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. We provide cutting edge technical and management advice to our clients, delivered by a blend of local and British consultants.

**We offer our people great benefits such as**:

- Competitive market rate salaries
- A performance-related pay incentive scheme
- Flexible working arrangements
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Genuine career development prospects
- Access to Employee Discount Program via Reward Gateway
- Further training, learning and development opportunities

**About the opportunity**:
Building on our continued success and growth, we are currently hiring for an experienced professional to join our team as an Associate Director - Advisory & Strategic Planning based in Sydney.

The key focus areas for the Advisory & Strategic Planning service lines include the following:
Advisory:

- Auditing, due diligence and independent technical reviews across a range of projects and/or disciplines.
- Benchmarking studies on client's railways against other owner/operators.
- Policy, Standards and procedures development and advice.
- Transformation and change management programs to improve efficiency and/or reduce cost.
- Procurement advice relating to planned procurements and tendering processes.
- Rail franchising, performance regimes and O&M concession advice.

Strategic Planning
- Business Case development and/or management.
- Project feasibility, planning and development.
- Route utilisation strategies and capacity enhancements.

You will be involved in developing the Advisory & Strategic Planning service line by providing expert technical advice, people leadership and service line capability by identifying the right resources to deliver business targets. You will have the opportunity to act as a project manager on consultancy contracts and manage, or contribute to the completion of consultancy contracts, delivering projects on time and to budget and quality.

**Experience & Qualifications**:
Essential:

- Qualified to at least a degree level (or equivalent for the service area) within a relevant area.
- Significant and demonstrable expertise and experience with broad experience across a variety of railway project lifecycle development and railway operational aspects.
- Significant proven experience in the Rail industry.
- Ability to relate to other people with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly motivated self-starter.
- Well-developed skills in problem solving and written/verbal communication, collaborative working and time/priority management.
- Strong commercial focus with regards to contract and project management.
- Ability to grow business and build/develop teams in a senior consultancy or professional advisory role.

Desirable:

- Membership of relevant professional body.
- Understanding of Australian market with client relationships in Transport/Rail sector.

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