Senior Commercial Officer

Senior Commercial Officer

Central Government Organisation
Manchester or Blackpool based
3 Month Contract (Extension TBC)
Hybrid Working – 2 days from home initially increasing to 3
Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00
Up to £600 per day Umbrella

We are looking for a commercial practitioner to work within the organisation's commercial directorate Digital category. Your role will be to work closely with colleagues from Digital and Finance to shape how we approach the market for the requirements Digital have, to run effective commercial processes that deliver excellent outcomes, and to ensure the contracts placed are managed effectively to achieve those outcomes.

The individual will provide end-to-end commercial support for procurements and contracts within one of the sub-categories of Digital, so this role relates to buying Digital goods and services. This will include market analysis, requirements gathering, preparation of sourcing strategy, development of tender documents, execution of tender process, contract award and contract management. They will also be required to ensure that all relevant legislation and wider government governance and policy is followed, as well as strict compliance to procurement regulations.

Responsibilities:

Procurement will be primarily through mini-competitions under existing CCS frameworks. The individual will be responsible for:

• Ensuring good communication links with relevant digital and financial stakeholders.
• Maintaining an accurate and timely pipeline of procurement activity and awarded contracts (in Microsoft Lists), interacting with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure their needs are represented on the pipeline and commercial activity begins, then progresses, in a timely manner to ensure sensible procurement timescales are followed;
• Bringing market knowledge to bear to support Digital in determining how to approach the relevant market (IT communication and collaboration tools and services and desktop software and services), while continually working to build your own and colleague’s understanding of that market;
• Designing and conducting procurements for required software and services, including helping refine requirement, recommending a sourcing strategy, executing the procurement process, completing relevant governance and assurance and finalising effective, legal and strong value-for-money contracts.
• Providing commercial management of resulting contracts, and through advice and oversight, ensuring that stakeholders are performing appropriate operational management of contracts in addition to commercial management led by yourself.
• Seeking out and delivering savings opportunities and opportunities to add value (social or otherwise) register and plan for the delivery of such savings and report on progress.
• Ensuring all relevant information is stored appropriately and updated, including document retention, eProcurement system updates and pipeline updates.

Requirements

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• Experience of running procurements through CCS frameworks
• Understanding of and ability to apply UK procurement legislation as it applies to central government departments
• Negotiation skills
• Ability to manage a busy workload with competing priorities
• Contract and supplier management.
• MCIPS / CIPS or Equivalent

If this role is of interest, please just respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV or call Jake on 01772 208969.