Jobs at Arriva Group

Provides operational and administrative support for privacy, data protection, information governance, and compliance activities. Responsibilities include managing data protection enquiries, coordinating SARs and regulatory information requests, maintaining ROPA and governance registers, monitoring training, supporting audits and assurance reviews, producing reports, maintaining SharePoint records, and promoting compliance awareness. Requires strong organisation, communication, attention to detail, confidentiality, and knowledge of UK GDPR.

Develops and manages integrated programmes for rail infrastructure projects through construction and delivery. Responsibilities include sequencing activities, monitoring critical paths and milestones, assessing risks and delays, developing recovery plans, coordinating subcontractor programmes, producing reports and dashboards, supporting change and contractual analysis, and facilitating planning workshops. The role works with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, efficient and contract-compliant project delivery.

Lead indirect procurement activities, including market engagement, tender management, contract awards, supplier relationship management, negotiations, and cost savings. Manage a small team, improve procurement processes, ensure compliance with the Procurement Act 2023, and support sustainable sourcing. Analyze spend, demand, pricing, and supplier performance while advising senior leadership and collaborating with stakeholders, legal teams, and group procurement functions.

Manage accounts payable invoice exceptions across multiple queues and finance systems. Responsibilities include invoice matching, coding, approvals, expenses, petty cash, query resolution, supplier communication, discrepancy investigation, and process improvement. The role supports accurate, timely payment processing and provides customer-focused service to internal and external stakeholders within a collaborative shared services finance team.

Two-year graduate role rotating across Arriva’s Digital & Technology function. The graduate will support digital solutions, technology, data, innovation, transformation, continuous improvement, and project initiatives that improve operational performance, customer experience, and decision-making. The programme includes mentoring, senior-leader exposure, and learning in digital transformation, analytics, cloud technologies, and project management. The role is hybrid in Sunderland or London, requiring at least three office days weekly.

Supports Group Finance business performance reporting by collecting, validating, reconciling, and analyzing financial, operational, KPI, ESG, and other non-financial data. Responsibilities include maintaining dashboard inputs and outputs, investigating discrepancies, identifying trends and variances, preparing performance commentary, improving data quality and reporting controls, and supporting automation and process efficiency across multiple stakeholders.

Senior HR Business Partner responsible for aligning HR strategy with regional business objectives, advising senior operational leaders, leading employee relations and organisational change, and supporting workforce planning, talent management, succession, engagement, and leadership development. The role also involves analysing HR metrics, ensuring UK employment law compliance, collaborating with central HR teams, and improving people processes and organisational performance.

Entry-level graduate role gaining experience across People functions, including talent, learning and development, employee engagement, organisational development and people partnering. The two-year programme offers structured learning, mentoring, senior-leader exposure and potential CIPD study. The role is hybrid in Sunderland or London, requiring at least three office days weekly and travel as needed.

Maintains and repairs buses, PSVs, HGVs, vehicles, and engineering equipment through preventative maintenance, diagnostics, fault finding, modifications, and upgrades. Ensures compliance with DVSA and safety standards, maintains accurate records, supports fleet reliability and continuous improvement, and provides technical guidance to junior engineers and apprentices. Requires heavy vehicle maintenance qualifications and workshop diagnostic experience, with flexibility for shifts, weekends, and public holidays.

Support transformation across Arriva’s rail operations through change management, project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and business improvement. The two-year graduate programme provides mentoring, structured learning, and exposure to senior leaders while developing skills to help teams adapt to change and embed large-scale initiatives. The role is based in Crewe with travel to York, Leeds, and Derby, and requires at least three days per week at an Arriva workplace.

Two-year finance graduate programme with three rotations across areas such as tax, treasury, accounting and reporting, and forecasting and budgeting. The role develops financial analysis, commercial awareness, and decision-support skills through business projects and collaboration across teams. Graduates will receive mentoring, structured learning, and potential support toward a professional qualification such as CIMA. The role is hybrid in Sunderland or London, requiring at least three office days weekly.

Supports strategic planning, market analysis, tender opportunities, M&A activities, and other growth initiatives. The role involves researching qualitative and quantitative information, developing recommendations, analyzing investments, preparing presentations and reports, and collaborating with stakeholders across international markets. This two-year graduate programme develops commercial awareness, strategic thinking, financial analysis, valuation, and stakeholder management skills.

Two-year graduate role supporting digital transformation across Arriva’s rail services. The graduate will explore artificial intelligence, business intelligence, data analytics, digital technologies, process improvement and project delivery to solve business challenges and improve customer journeys. Based in Crewe with hybrid working and travel to York, Leeds and Derby, the role includes structured learning, mentoring and exposure to senior leaders.

Two-year in-house legal training contract leading to qualification as a solicitor of England and Wales. The trainee will complete placements across legal specialisms, supporting operational, commercial, regulatory, company secretarial, and personal injury matters under solicitor supervision. The role includes structured learning, mentoring, progress reviews, and qualifying work experience through the SQE route. Based in Sunderland with at least three office days weekly.

Two-year graduate role supporting Arriva Rail Services’ commercial growth through bid and tender management, commercial analysis, business development, customer insights, and market and performance analysis. The role develops strategic and analytical skills while collaborating with stakeholders and experienced colleagues. Based in Crewe on a hybrid basis, it requires travel to York, Leeds, and Derby.

Leads complex, high-risk employee relations matters across a unionised London bus operation. Advises senior leaders, develops ER policies and governance, analyses case trends, supports organisational change, manages legal and operational risk, partners with trade unions, and coaches HR colleagues and managers. Ensures compliant, consistent and commercially balanced employee relations practices while improving engagement, manager capability and organisational effectiveness.

The Workday Analyst will support and optimize Workday HCM, Recruiting, and Reporting across a multinational organization. Responsibilities include partnering with HR stakeholders, gathering requirements, configuring enhancements, resolving incidents, improving processes and automation, maintaining reports and dashboards, supporting releases and testing, facilitating workshops, and creating training materials. The role requires strong Workday expertise, stakeholder management, communication, and continuous improvement skills.

Manage bid opportunities from qualification through contract award, including proposal writing, tender coordination, solution design, commercial modelling, stakeholder engagement, pipeline management, and submission governance. The role develops transport proposals, coordinates Operations, Finance, Legal, HR, and suppliers, supports pricing and bid/no-bid decisions, manages tender portals, engages clients, and supports successful bid mobilisation. It also includes mentoring a Commercial Bids Executive and improving bid content and processes.

Own and support Arriva UK's contactless electronic ticketing platform, managing configuration, maintenance, operational readiness, incidents, system performance, data quality, fare and service updates, supplier integrations, reporting, and user training. The role serves as the subject matter expert and primary contact for operational teams, local authorities, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, driving continuous improvement across digital bus operations.

Lead complex employee relations matters across a large, unionised UK organisation. Advise senior leaders, manage escalated cases, develop ER strategies and governance, support organisational change, maintain employment-law compliance, analyse ER trends, strengthen trade-union relationships, and coach HR colleagues and managers.