Assistant Capability Manager

Job title: Assistant Capability Manager – Planning & Supply Chain Intelligence
Salary: £40,000
Grade: Band 2
Contract type: TfL
Reference: 4164
Team: P&C Group Capability 
Contract details: Permanent/ Full- Time
Location: Palestra/Hybrid

Application closing date: 13th May 2026

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.  At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.  

Overview of the Role

The Assistant Capability Manager – Planning & Supply Chain Intelligence supports the Procurement & Commercial (P&C) function by helping to build, maintain, and communicate a coherent, evidence‑based view of current and future procurement activity, supply chain intelligence, and risk.

Working within the P&C Capability team, the role focuses on enabling effective leadership and delivery decision‑making through high‑quality planning insight, intelligence, pre-contract and post-contract activity as well as forward‑looking analysis.  The role also plays an important part in supporting the design, improvement, and implementation of initiatives, helping to embed new processes, tools, and ways of working across the function through clear insight, structured planning, and stakeholder engagement.

The role contributes across multiple capability areas, including Planning & Supply Chain Intelligence, Supplier Relationships, and Performance Management, requiring strong collaboration and relationship‑building skills.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain and support an enterprise‑level view of procurement and commercial pipelines, workbanks, and forward plans.
• Contribute to supply chain intelligence, including insight on supplier capability, capacity, dependencies, and risk.
• Provide forward‑looking analysis to highlight potential risks, constraints, opportunities, and market dynamics that could impact delivery.
• Work with data from multiple systems and stakeholder inputs, ensuring strong data quality, structure, and governance.
• Support RAID management through structured data, analysis, and improved visibility of procurement and supply chain risks.
• Produce clear, concise dashboards, summaries, and briefings to inform senior leaders and governance forums.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Procurement & Commercial, Business Services, Finance, Legal, Tech & Data, and delivery teams to improve planning insight and decision‑making.
• Support continuous improvement of planning, intelligence, and reporting processes, ensuring alignment with the wider TfL process landscape.
• Communicate insights effectively through written outputs, presentations, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Strong analytical skills, with a focus on insight, trends, and forward‑looking interpretation rather than static reporting.
• Experience working with high‑volume, complex datasets relating to pipelines, workbanks, suppliers, or supply chain risk, spanning multiple stakeholders, systems, and delivery contexts.
• Understanding of planning and supply chain concepts, such as capacity, dependency, constraints, and market or supplier risk.
• Experience supporting or contributing to risk, issue, and dependency management through data and analysis.
• Ability to produce clear, structured outputs (dashboards, summaries, briefings) for senior audiences.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, particularly in data quality and maintenance.
• Good understanding of the procurement and commercial lifecycle, ideally within a governed or regulated environment.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across different teams, priorities, and seniority levels.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement or business process management approaches.

Desirable

• • Experience in public sector, infrastructure, or regulated environments.
  • Exposure to supplier relationship management or performance management data and insight.
  • Experience working in CAPEX and OPEX delivery contexts.
  • Experience supporting senior leadership forums or strategic planning discussions.

Application Process    

• Please apply using your CV only 

• Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV 

• PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images 

Equality, diversity and inclusion 

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs to make the process fair. 
  
Benefits  

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below: 
 

• Final salary pension scheme  
• Free travel for you on the TfL network  
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home 
• 29/30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow 
• Private healthcare discounted scheme Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme 
  Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
• Discounted Eurostar travel 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice. 

Vetting Process 

At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how we recruit. Our Vetting Charter (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/careers/our-vetting-process) explains the checks we carry out before you join us, helping ensure we create a safe, inclusive and reliable network for everyone who depends on our services. We simply ask that the information you provide is honest and accurate so we can progress your application smoothly. If something doesn’t match or can’t be verified, we may not be able to move forward with your application, but we’ll always treat you with transparency, respect, and clear communication throughout.