Commercial Support in Newport

3 weeks ago

Newport, Newport, United Kingdom Office for National Statistics Full time

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK's largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social, and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.

On behalf of ONS, Commercial Services deliver all procurement and contract management activity within the organisation and are looking to appoint an Associate Commercial Practitioner.

In this role you will have an opportunity to support the Commercial Director in delivering the Commercial vision of being a key partner in strategic business decision making, adding value through innovation, collaboration, and shared sense of purpose. You will have responsibility for providing commercial support to ONS stakeholders that enables business goals through market knowledge, effective communication, and teamwork. You will contribute to the aim of delivering value for money through innovation, cost reduction and efficiencies, with fairness, transparency, sustainability, and diversity woven into everything we do.

Commercial Services sits in the Finance Planning and Performance (FPP) Directorate.

The Government Commercial Function defines how all government departments should operate commercially to guarantee consistency of commercial behaviours and purchasing across government. Commercial Services uses their standards, benchmarks and training materials for staff involved in procurement and contract management to make sure best practice is followed. The strategic aim is securing optimum value for ONS through delivery of Commercial excellence.

Job description

You will work collaboratively with colleagues from within Commercial Services and stakeholders from across the business to ascertain demand and manage and deliver effective commercial activity.

You will provide support for ensuring complete end to end Commercial activity from pre-sourcing to contract management for Bronze and Silver tiered contracts, and for the successful development and ongoing management of a comprehensive Commercial pipeline.

You will ensure that Commercial systems are updated accordingly, and administration duties are completed in line with the standard operating procedures.

You will adopt the standard operating procedures and ensure delivery compliance whilst driving the successful application of quality and Value for Money (VfM) for the Organisation.

You will ensure that spend adheres to current ONS Governance, Cabinet Office guidelines, and the relevant Regulations.

You will be expected to uphold the principles of inclusivity and support in all aspects of your role.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring compliant end to end delivery of commercial activity including pre-market engagement and route to market analysis, ITT pack development, contract management and contract exit for low complexity procurements.
  • Maintaining good relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Supporting the Sourcing team to deliver high volume procurements compliantly for the organisation.
  • Maintaining the Commercial Pipeline to ensure consistency and an equal work allocation to the team.
  • Supporting the efficiency drive in commercial by identifying Value for Money opportunities and delivering quality procurements.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £25,954, Office for National Statistics contributes £7,007 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued employees across the business.

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