Commercial Strategy Lead

1st Executive; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Commercial Strategy Lead to oversee high-value procurement activities within the UK Defence Strategy program. This hybrid role requires expertise in managing complex procurement projects, stakeholder engagement, and delivering strategic commercial outcomes in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience in translating business needs into policy objectives.
• Practical experience in developing business unit strategies through supply chain management.

Responsibilities

• Devising commercial strategies for complex, high value procurements.
• Building relationships with senior stakeholders across various functions.
• Managing commercial strategies and implementing sourcing plans.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Commercial Knowledge

Procurement Rules

Data Analysis

Job description

Role: Commercial Strategy Lead

Location: Reading, Berkshire (Hybrid working)

Salary: £700-£800 per day outside ir35

Overview

This is an opportunity to be involved in a massive programme associated with long term UK Defence Strategy. We are looking for people from complex high value public procurement backgrounds who can navigate complex and strategically challenging environments.

Summary:

Delivering commercial planning, strategy, market management and procurement life cycle for all pre-contract activity. We need a commercial specialist who will deliver defined project outputs, enabling leadership to fully mobilise and establish new function without compromising short term requirements.

The Commercial Strategy Lead will deliver high-value, and high-risk procurement activities, focusing on pre-contract commercial strategy. This role demands significant experience in managing infrastructure, construction, estates, liabilities and partnership frameworks, demonstrating value leadership in delivery. You will need to navigate a highly regulated environment, governed by PCR (Public Contracts Regulations) to manage complex, multi-stakeholder procurement projects on a nuclear site with your focus being on a decommissioning and demolition programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Devising suitable commercial strategies for complex, high value procurements and contracts
• Contributing to the development of business unit strategies
• Managing, developing and maintaining commercial strategies and creating and implementing agreed sourcing plans
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders to include senior officials and ministers across various functions
• Overseeing and collating data and information required to support the development of commercial strategies
• Combining market specific data analysis with big picture considerations in order to help advise on future market changes
• Applying an understanding of the importance of prime contractors in managing and assuring their own supply chain in particular security of supply and contingencies
• Evaluating the potential effect of mergers and acquisitions on the organisation's supply chains
• Identifying routes to market, conducting early market engagement and undertaking a proportional delivery model assessment
• Establishing dialogue/negotiation strategies with clear parameters

Key Experience

• You need considerable experience in translating the needs of the business into policy objectives
• Practical experience in the development and implementation of business unit strategies through supply chain management and the ability to challenge risk averse behaviours where appropriate
• Ability to practically apply procurement rules and link them to the implementation of policy objectives
• Strong commercial knowledge, understanding trade-offs in areas of responsibility and ability to apply commercial principles within the boundaries of contract law
• Demonstrate the ability to lead on securing 'value for money' through achieving good return on investment on commercial projects

Key Behaviours

• Demonstrates the ability to manage and build confidence in a team in order to deal with setbacks, resolve internal issues and implement change at a local level by working with affected parties to identify and overcome challenges
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to present technical advice successfully in order to influence internal and external decision making
• Demonstrates the ability to articulate commercial motivations and expected behaviours of stakeholders, suppliers and networks
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate standards to eliminate corruption, fraud and unethical behaviour in supply chains, taking appropriate actions in the event of any alleged breach of standards

If you want to work in an rapidly growing organisation going through significant change and transformation on one of the most complex infrastructure projects in the UK today and you have the resilience and tenacity to push projects forward in a highly regulated environment then reach out to me directly [e-mail] or click Apply Now.