Overview

As Rail Advisory Team Leader, you will guide the European Rail Centre of Competence to drive growth and delivery excellence across rail projects in Europe. You’ll lead a cross-functional team, shaping programmes, and acting as a trusted advisor to key clients. You will collaborate with regional teams to extend the rail qualification programme and advance innovative, efficient service delivery. This is a hands-on, growth-focused leadership role with regional and international scope.

Responsabilidades

- Lead and develop the rail team, expanding the qualification programme
- Own programme and project management and ensure quality, efficiency, and consistency in delivery
- Collaborate with operations for optimal resource allocation and issue resolution
- Manage client relationships and act as trusted advisor to rail clients
- Engage with external stakeholders to gather insights and refine value proposition
- Contribute to sales, regional growth, and techno-commercial value propositions
- Support innovation by curating ideas for improvements in service delivery
- Deliver KPIs: revenue growth, project margin, EBIT, client satisfaction, and team development
- Implement strategy and operating plans; develop training and qualification roadmaps




- Outline customer and stakeholder follow-up strategies to grow the portfolio

Requisitos principales

- ≥10 years of rail sector experience across technical, managerial, and operational roles
- Proven integral or international leadership experience
- Operational excellence with strong programme and project management skills
- Strong stakeholder management and client engagement capabilities
- Risk management expertise to identify and mitigate operational and market risks
- Native Spanish and advanced English; other languages a plus
- Willingness to travel locally and internationally
- Experience with design, implementation, commissioning, and maintenance of rail subsystems (signalling, rolling stock, infrastructure, energy) is valued
- Experience as consultant/assessor in rail systems engineering and assurance is valued

- fast-moving and growth-oriented mindset
- proactive and collaborative work style
- strong interpersonal skills and cross-functional teamwork
- programme and project management
- systems engineering and systems assurance
- knowledge of rail subsystems (signalling, rolling stock, infrastructure, energy)

📌 Team Leader Rail Advisory (Barcelona)
🏢 Dnv Gl
📍 Barcelona