Job Title: Assistant Commercial Manager

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Location: Leeds or London (2-3 days/week on site)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: £450-470/day (Umbrella – Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Minimum Requirement:

• The candidate must be experienced in the end to end process of tender, ideally in a recent role with demonstratable evidence and ability to back up with strong examples.
• Familiar with Strategy writing and must have very strong Stakeholder management skills.

Role Summary

In this role you will be expected to contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department's key and strategic suppliers, driving value for money and risk management excellence across the category.

You will be expected to support across the overall commercial life cycle. You will contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and use market insight to support the sourcing options, and work across the procurement process. You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.

The Role

• This role is varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or level of complexity, value and risk within a category.

• In this role you will be expected to contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor.

• You will also develop relationships with the department's key and strategic suppliers, driving value for money and risk management excellence across the category.

• You will be expected to support across the overall commercial life cycle. You will contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and use market insight to support the sourcing options, and work across the procurement process.

• You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.

• Working independently across end-to-end strategic sourcing activities for the department

• Engaging with key stakeholders across the department to support the team develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements

• Understanding, and being able to advise on, sourcing compliance and frameworks

• Ensuring effective commercial contract and supplier management within the category

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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