Opportunities in Commercial, Category & Contract Management

We are working with a range of high-profile government clients who are seeking experienced Category and Commercial Management professionals. Please apply if any of the below roles are of interest. Kindly highlight which opportunity you are most interested in, and we will be happy to share the full job description with you.

Roles Available (Inside IR35):

• Senior Category Manager based in Reading, Up to 3 days per week on site, remainder remote working.
• Commercial Lead based in Kilburn - 3 days a week in the office.

Role Details:

Top 3 Evaluation Criteria:

• Significant Public Sector Procurement experience (5+ years)
• Facility Management (FM) or Works experience
• Has led/delivered procurement projects in a highly regulated, complex environment.

Essential Requirements:

• Significant Public Sector Procurement experience (5+ years)
• Supplier Relationship skills
• Facility Management (FM) or Works experience
• NEC Experience or at least a good understanding of how it operates
• Good working knowledge of how a contract operates
• Must have led/delivered procurement projects in a highly regulated, complex environment.
• Project is in Procurement stage - Needs analysis stage to contract stage
• Need someone with real ‘doing’ experience.

Top Essentials:

• Ability to run a procurement is key, has run procurements within the last 12 months
• Procurement experience - good solid experience, PA23, live procurement in the public sector
• Delivering procurements
• Commercial strategy
• Negotiation and influencing at a senior level
• Pipelining
• Stakeholder engagement
• Technical specifications - pick up and interpret technical documents, niche subject matters
• Supporting business cases
• Independent working, back-office systems

Requirements:

• Experience of drafting business cases would be beneficial.

Essential Criteria:

• Business Acumen and Commercial Judgement – Experience using analysis and insight to make effective decisions while proactively managing risk.
• Leadership Skills and Capability – Experience working and effectively influencing senior stakeholders with or without authority, projecting personal impact and credibility at all levels (including senior) of the organisation and the external market, demonstrating an ability to influence, persuade and effectively communicate.
• Understanding Needs and Sourcing Options – Evidence of having delivered organisational benefits to customers through effective design and/or implementation of category strategies or category management as a methodology; able to describe value add and savings in a strategic context in a complex commercial environment.
• Procurement Process – Excellent understanding and experience of developing and delivering of sourcing and procurement methodologies, ideally within a regulated or public sector environment.
• Effectively Managing Workload – Ability to prioritise and manage a demanding workload whilst balancing both operationally urgent and important tasks to deliver to deadlines aligned with strong project management capabilities gained through practical professional experience.

Desirable Criteria:

• Leadership Skills and Capability – Evidence of inspirational and inclusive leadership, developing a professional culture and building commercial capability. Empowers team members through coaching, mentoring and sharing of expertise/knowledge.
• Contract and Supplier Management – Evidence of developing effective supplier relationships and the ability to resolve issues in performance or variations in supply without the need for legal or contractual recourse, working in partnership to deliver continuous improvement and innovation for all parties including complex performance management and incentivisation mechanisms.
• Professional Qualification – CIPS qualification / IACCM certification (or working towards).
• Purchase to Pay (P2P) – Working knowledge of purchasing processes and systems and how these support purchasing protocols in contracts.