Commercial Officer in Liverpool

We are looking for Commercial Officers to join our Sourcing & Delivery and Commercial Programmes teams, part of the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate. Truly dynamic, our teams operate at significant pace in a commercially complex environment. UKHSA\’s Commercial teams continue to play a central role in priority activity, supporting the response to health threats such as Mpox (Monkeypox) and Strep A as they occur, and ensuring a resilient infrastructure to secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health.

• Supporting senior managers, stakeholders and suppliers to deliver high quality commercial solutions for the UKHSA.
• Supporting specific portfolios of sourcing / tenders / contracts, as well as other projects.
• Supporting supplier performance and commercial meetings to ensure contract obligations are met and additional value is achieved.
• Supporting competition exercises using the e-tendering portal (Atamis), including mini competitions, open competitions and if necessary direct awards or single tenders.
• Supporting the drafting of commercial documents, including tenders, contracts and contract change notes, working closely with finance and legal partners where necessary.
• Supporting analysis of markets, suppliers and conducting due diligence if necessary or working with subject matter experts where necessary.
• Leading on the full compliance of data and data entry to ensure reporting is robust and accurate.
• Ensuring all commercial activity is compliant with legislative obligation, UKHSA Standing financial instructions and government best practice.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders to deal with queries and questions.
• Involved in responding to Freedom of Information requests (FOIA\’s); Parliamentary Questions (PQ\’s) and other media queries.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.