Background
Veredus provide interim executive talent across the transport and infrastructure sector, including many of the UK train operating companies, Network Rail and the Rail Delivery Group.
We recruit exceptional individuals across all functions, including HR, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Health and Safety, Procurement, Projects and Programme Management.
The challenge
GBRTT (Great British Railways Transition team) is working on behalf of the government to create a new organisation that will bring together decisions about track and train, provide accountable leadership, and lead the railway forward. Within the organisation the Fares, Ticketing and Retail team (FTR) is committed to delivering on the Plan for Rail.
The challenge is to provide clearer pricing, modern methods of payment and straightforward compensation will help us to restore trust and encourage more people to use rail.
In order to achieve this GBRTT asked us to provide 3 interim project managers.
Our solution:
We undertook extensive research across multiple infrastructure, transport, utilities and public sector groups together with engaging with our ‘talent bank’ of existing project managers, to identify available skills and experience for these (initial 6 month) assignments.
The search activity generated dozens of potential candidates that we met with to produce a shortlist of 6 for final presentation to the client.
All 3 appointments were made and contracts have since been extended.