Our client has a vacancy for a Senior Commercial Lead to join their busy team flexible working with regular travel to their head office in South Yorkshire.
As part of this role, you will lead and develop commercial and procurement strategies for a range of requirements to support their nuclear and defence contracts. You will also lead the strategic direction through driving and developing the right commercial and procurement strategies, by influencing senior stakeholders across the business to underpin and deliver lifecycle values. We are also required to have a strong commercial background alongside significant interpersonal skills to develop strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Shaping and defining the business needs
- Developing and managing a procurement pipeline
- Supply market analysis and early market engagement
- Developing and analysing commercial options representing sound management of risk and value for money
- Supporting Outline Business Cases through ownership of the commercial case
- Work with sourcing and contract management disciplines to maintain strategic intent through the sourcing phases
- Bid evaluation and supplier selection
- Applying effective contract terms
- Integrating effective contract management strategies to enable contract success
- Work with contract management discipline to maintain strategic intent through the commercial lifecycle
- Learning from experience for related demand / procurement strategies.
- Recruits, develops and manages a high performing team to deliver the scope of the portfolio
- Oversight of all procurements relevant to the portfolio.
- Probity in terms of compliance with modern slavery act, supplier (subcontract) payments and bribery and corruption.
- Work with the Senior Contract Management lead to ensure appropriate contract management mechanisms are factored in to strategy.
Experience Required
- Educated to degree standard or equivalent experience
- Ideally a member and accredited to MCIPS, MRICS status, or equivalent.
- Senior procurement and contract management experience ideally gained both in the private and public sector. Role requires significant commercial and operational experience.
- Key skills include: the ability to deliver business solutions at the point of need within the relevant regulatory and policy framework; team leader – to motivate, build capability and develop recognised high performing teams; analyse complex issues and develop appropriate strategic solutions, diplomatic, persuasive communication skills, negotiation skills, appropriate varied presentational styles and the ability to manage complex projects.
- Able to present and explain complex issues at all levels of the organisation and audiences in an understandable concise manner; build networks internal to the NDA Group and externally.
Keywords:
