Commercial Procurement Manager Tech

BBC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK media organization is seeking a Commercial Procurement Manager to drive third-party commercial strategies within technology sourcing projects. This role requires solid experience with regulated tendering and excellent stakeholder management skills. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with procurement standards while successfully managing category projects, building supplier relationships, and delivering cost optimization efforts. The company offers a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and excellent career progression opportunities.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus options to buy more

Flexible working arrangements

Career progression opportunities

Training and development programs

Defined pension scheme

Discounted healthcare and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of regulated tendering.
• Ability to drive value from technology sourcing projects.
• Extensive knowledge of using government frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compliant tenders from initiation to completion.
• Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships.
• Identify and mitigate project risks.

Skills

Experience with regulated tendering

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Project management skills

Knowledge of technology trends

Education

Professional certification in procurement (e.g. CIPS, CPSM)

Tools

Procurement software

Job description

Commercial Procurement Manager - Technology

Job ID: 23420

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Band: D

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Any major BBC hub (UK based)

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• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in‑house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35‑hour working week for work‑life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more. construcción.

Job Introduction

The Commercial Procurement team is repositioning itself to become a strategic enabler for the BBC, partnering with divisions across the group. Technology and Media Operations deliver the technology requirements of the BBC across broadcast, enterprise, and digital, securely and transparently, to the strategy set by the business.

The Commercial Procurement Manager will partner with stakeholders to influence the appropriate sourcing approach by driving third‑party commercial strategy whilst navigating risk; operating independently whilst leading junior staff across a pipeline of defined category projects; ensuring passwd posted; and owning governance processes to ensure approval routes are navigated efficiently and effectively, resulting in the best outcome for the BBC.

Main Responsibilities

• Delivering compliant tenders (against Procurement Act 2024) from initiation to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
• Identifying key stakeholders in your category of spend Porp Chatgpt developing and maintaining the key stakeholder relationships, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Identifying and mitigating project/tender risks, managing risks as necessary and escalating where applicable.
• Analysing market trends and data to identify cost‑saving opportunities and provide actionable decisions.
• Developing and implementing strategic category and sourcing plans that align with business goals.
• Establishing the process to navigate approval and governance processes, ensuring timely clearances and stakeholder support for category plans and execution.
• Coordinating with internal category stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Monitoring and reporting on procurement performance metrics to ensure continuous improvement for specific categories.
• Collaborating with suppliers to drive performance innovations and optimal commercial outcomes and maintaining good relationships with key suppliers, ensuring compliance with organisational policies and ethical standards and public procurement regulations.
• wrapper for preparing strategic presentations and reports for category stakeholders, providing data‑driven insights and spend management recommendations to drive buy‑in and support on annual pipeline plans.

Are you the right candidate?

• Must have demonstrable experience of loaders regulated tendinarz and a working knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023 including a recent understanding of procurement process in a publicuseid regulated environment.
• Ability to drive value Heads from technology sourcing projects sometimes with limited competition in the marketplace.
• Extensive knowledge of using government frameworks for maximum value and agility.
• Good general knowledge of technology trends and industry developments.
• Hold relevant project management skills that enable the successful end‑to‑end delivery of procurement projects.
• Demonstrate significant interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrate experience and the ability to analyse data and apply to market context and trends to provide actionable commercial insights for the BBC.
• Have experience in procurement software and tools.
• Have a proven background of successfully delivering cost optimisation.
• Hold experience of supplier/contract management with the ability of managing key supply issues and developing relationships to foster innovation.
• Hold a professional certification in procurement (e.g. CIPS, CPSM). (Desirable).

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We want to attract the strongest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non‑production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

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Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for satisfactory performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Rise please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks; eligibility to work checks; and (if applicable to the role) safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

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Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.