Requirements Manager

• Because you facilitate various stakeholders within the assets department and ensure that the quality of the creation and compliance process of requirements is maintained.
• Because you will be given all the space to shape your role according to your own judgment and to further develop our vision on systems engineering.
• Because you work at an organization with an open culture, where you help build sustainable solutions.

At NS, we are constantly innovating, improving, and maintaining our fleet of no fewer than 750 train sets. As Requirements Manager, you are involved from the very beginning of the project. At the Aspect and Specification Management department, we determine which functional requirements assets such as a wheel lathe or train wash plant must meet. Your responsibility is to build a Reference Architecture using the requirements from the various systems to ensure that the requirements are actually realized within the projects.

Where project managers focus on time and planning, you focus on quality and process progress. The challenging part of your role is that you deal with various interests and that ideas can change. A project within assets lasts an average of five years. Due to new wishes from management, the development of innovations, or changes in laws and regulations, new functional requirements can easily be added. You keep your eyes on what is important at that moment, align policy for making integral choices, make a critical assessment for every requirement, and bring all stakeholders into alignment. This ensures our assets are delivered according to the requirements. Thanks to your connecting power and conceptual thinking skills, you are of invaluable importance in:

• Maintaining an overview during the development/drafting of the PvE (Program of Requirements) through to realization. Do you spot issues? Then you resolve them.
• Monitoring the issue, change, verification, and validation process towards the engineers working on the design of our assets. In doing so, you look at the total package of requirements with an integral perspective.
• Setting up, managing, and gaining insight into the (sub)processes of every project in the IT system Polarion.
• Developing and managing the Reference Architecture:
  • Steering the development of requirements: extracting and retrieving requirements, obtaining hard-to-get information, and gathering information.
  • Baselining: retrieving updated requirements from projects back into the Reference Architecture.
  • Configuration management (which RA baseline was used in which project?)
• Training and supporting colleagues in the use of Polarion within projects.

You will be working in the Aspect and Specification Management department at our head office in Utrecht. We work on aligning the functionalities of our trains with the wishes of passengers, our colleagues—think of train drivers and conductors—and laws and regulations.

We do this with eighteen pleasant, hardworking colleagues, including aspect managers, specification managers, four fellow requirements managers, and colleagues focused on supporting and improving operations. The atmosphere is informal, and in the coming period, we want to focus even more on multidisciplinary collaboration. We would like to invite you to explore the possibilities for further development of our team.

• HBO/WO work and thinking level (technical) business administration, technical field of study, or similar.
• You have five years of experience in a role in which you held a central role, such as project coordinator, project assistant, or quality manager. For example, in the coordination of design or construction projects or in an asset management environment.
• Demonstrable experience with Systems Engineering methodology.
• Demonstrable experience with Polarion (software package)
• You feel at home in a political playing field, can quickly recognize diverse stakeholder interests, and work in a connecting manner.
• You can thoroughly understand complex situations, problems, and processes and devise solutions for them.
• Knowledge of and affinity with the realization of Buildings & tools (assets) is a plus.
• Demonstrable experience with Requirements Management (IREB certified is a plus).
• You manage Dutch and English at a B-level. The functional requirements are specified in English. Do you also master German? Then that is a welcome addition.

At NS, we find diversity and inclusion important; it makes working together more fun and often improves the result. We are particularly curious about your vision on the coordination of our processes regarding functional requirements, so that we can respond even better to the expectations of stakeholders.

Working at NS means that you can make *the* difference in the dynamic world of sustainable mobility. You help keep the Netherlands accessible, for everyone. At NS, you get a lot of freedom. The possibilities to develop yourself are great. We promise you that no day is the same. And as one of the most beautiful employers in the Netherlands, we have even more to offer. For this position, including:

• A salary between € 3,743 and € 6,491 gross per month, depending on your knowledge and experience (based on scale 60 and a 36-hour work week). A FUWA trajectory has been started for the grading of the position.
• A 36-hour work week.
• 144 hours of statutory leave (based on a 36-hour work week) supplemented with extra leave depending on age (minimum one week).
• The possibility to exchange 3 national holidays for 3 non-national holidays.
• 3% end-of-year bonus, 8% holiday allowance, and an excellent pension scheme.
• Your train travel in 2nd class is free; travel in 1st class is possible with a small personal contribution.
• Your family travels for free during off-peak hours.
• Discount on European train travel once you have worked at NS for 1 year.
• A choice plan including, among others, a bicycle plan, extra pension accrual, or extra vacation days.

Want to know more? Then view the Employment Conditions here .

Are you the Requirements Manager who takes ownership of the Program of Requirements for the entire duration of the project and focuses on quality and connection?

Apply directly via the application button. Within a few minutes, you will receive an automatic application confirmation; after the closing date, we will respond to your application as soon as possible.

You can address your application to Audrey van der Linde, corporate recruiter technology.
Any questions about the application process? Email our front office via recruitment@ns.nl
Would you prefer telephone contact? Then call our front office at 088-6713666.

• Due to holidays, the vacancy will remain open until December 9. No communication will be possible before this date.
• Please take into account that the 1st interviews will take place on 15/12 in the morning
• A background check, including a VOG (Certificate of Conduct), is part of the application procedure. Please also consider the signing of an integrity statement and a non-disclosure agreement.
• We find it important that everyone who works with us feels at home. You can see this in everything we do, and therefore also in our recruitment policy. Read more here.

With this vacancy, we wish to recruit our new colleague ourselves. This is therefore NOT a call for acquisition.

This position cannot be filled on an interim basis. For that, please view our hiring page.