Commercial Manager (inside IR35)

Contract Term: 6 months (Potential Extension)

Contracting Authority: Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Location: 2 days a week any office in England or Wales

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join our People Services category. The People Services Team sits within Core Goods and Services and our contracts cover the Ministry of Justice and its Arm s Length Bodies. This team manages a range of contracts, for services that include:

• Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programme, Eyecare
• Employee Benefits
• Learning and Development
• Apprenticeships
• Permanent Recruitment

.Job Purpose:

As a Commercial Manager, you will deliver procurement and contract management activities to achieve commercial outcomes across the business. Working within a fast-paced environment, you will bring excellent communication and organisational skills to ensure contracts are working effectively, and stakeholder relationships are managed appropriately. The category involves working with a wide and diverse set of stakeholders and suppliers and covers some really unique and niche requirements.

As a Commercial Manager, your main responsibilities would be: 

• Leading end to end sourcing including pre-procurement activity, strategy development, market engagement and producing the invitation to tender pack (including specification, technical and financial evaluation and contract drafting)
• Leading contract implementation and management activity, working closely with stakeholders to deliver mobilisation, performance management, contract variation, negotiation and exit activity.
• Strategy development at contract level, using business acumen and market insight to drive commercial opportunities to deliver continuous improvement, value for money and/or savings.
• Analysing market, spend and performance data and presenting this to support commercial activity and reporting requirements.
• Leading conflict and issue resolution with suppliers and stakeholders, seeking support from the Senior Commercial Manager where appropriate.
• Supporting the Senior Commercial Manager and leading on activities which support the development of category management procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with governance, legislative and policy requirements as appropriate
• Line management responsibilities for an Assistant Commercial Manager

You ll have relevant experience in: 

• Commercial experience (for example Contract Management and/or Procurement experience)
• Awareness of public sector procurement regulations (PCR 2015)
• An understanding of Contract Management principles
• Experience of identifying savings
• Experience of developing excellent stakeholder management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Team player that is able to lead by example.

Desirable criteria: 

• CIPs
• A proven track-record delivering contract management in a commercial environment
• The ability to drive improved outcomes by influencing and developing the market
• Working knowledge of Procurement Systems, e.g., Oracle (ERP) and/or Jaggaer (Bravo)

If this Commercial Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme The Cabinet Office, guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas