Senior Commercial Officer in Manchester

SOLOS are delighted to be working with a Manchester base client, who are keen to recruit a Senior Commercial Officer to work on a 6 month contract initially.

Main Purpose of the Job

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.

Duties and Responsibilities

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 ser-vices and desktop software and services), while continually working to build your own and colleagues 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.

Essential Skills

• 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.

If this role is of interest and you meet the above criteria, then please apply immediately