Senior Commercial Officer

Senior Commercial Officer required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 3 month contract, paying £600 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

Job Description:

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.

Duties

The individual will provide end-to-end commercial support for procurements and contracts within the one of the sub-categories of Digital, so this role relate 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.

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.

• 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 (particularly PCR2015 and PA2023) as it applies to central government departments;
• Negotiation skills;
• Ability to manage a busy workload with competing priorities;
• Contract and supplier management.

• Experience of buying in the Digital market;
• Knowledge of the relevant markets;
• Ability to apply market knowledge to secure better deals.
• Experience of using CCS Technology Frameworks (Technology Services, Digital Outcomes, Digital Specialists and Programmes, Technology Products and Services, G-Cloud, etc.)
• MCIPS / CIPS or Equivalent

1. CCS frameworks and run procurement through them.
2. Manage busy workload with competing priorities
3. Strong commercial acumen - Ability to run process, people who can make that work effectively, strategic thinking to get best value and outcome

Please apply should you fit the above criteria