Commercial & Procurement Specialist

2 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom PA Consulting Full time

Company Description
**About us**

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

**PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.**

**Job Description**:
Our Delivery PST team are looking for an exceptional Commercial & Procurement Specialist.

The Professional Services Team (PST) is in high demand and experiencing repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for our clients who are within daily commuting range from home. Due to this success, we are expanding further across the UK.

PST make up part of PA’s core Delivery Team which is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme, and portfolio capability. We work across Defence, major projects & infrastructure, transport, and public sector taking on client-facing roles on long-term assignments.

As a Procurement & Commercial Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in executing complex projects across various industries. Your expertise and strategic thinking will be crucial in delivering successful outcomes for our clients.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment, shaping projects that drive meaningful impact.

**Location**

Flexible working - We operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into a client site or office, at least two days per week. Client locations include:

- London
- Bristol
- Andover
- Portsmouth
- Cardiff
- Swindon
- Cheltenham

**You will have opportunity to**:
We typically work with the buyer organisation, but sometimes work with prime suppliers on high spend categories, typically in complex equipment and capabilities, digital services, infrastructure and professional services. Some examples of assignments can include the following:

- Designing and running major procurements: helping clients to understand their requirement and how to leverage major procurements to improve their business; creating the procurement and contracting strategy, creating commercial agreements and advising on how drive the best from the market.
- Project managing and providing expert advice on the process of procurement: managing supplier engagement; the evaluation of tenders; helping to negotiate and close deals; and making the business case to launch procurements and award agreements.
- Advising and putting the systems and processes in place to successfully transition from legacy to new frameworks and contracts, and to properly manage major contracts including the associated business change.
- Reviewing client procurement and commercial team performance and identifying and leading programmes to restructure the function and improve capability. This may include category management, supplier relationship management and sustainable supply chains.
- Support to renegotiate and improve agreements or help resolve major disputes.
- Providing effective commercial management for PA’s largest complex assignments, often with large collaborative teams.

**Qualifications**:
**About You**

This is an opportunity to develop your skills and gain experiences that will take you into the top levels of the profession. Experience will include:

- Working with large and complex procurements, in any or all of equipment, digital services and infrastructure.
- Understanding of the procurement lifecycle and comfort around: identifying procurement and commercial strategies; running the processes of sourcing; managing the evaluation of tenders; helping to negotiate and close deals; and properly managing major contracts.
- Experience advising on contract terms and designing agreements to drive the best from a particular market.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including recognising how to manage multiple stakeholders
- Experience with major government procurements, including the approvals processes, is highly desired
- Familiarity using NEC contract forms would be an advantage
- Ideally possessing MCIPS or MRICS Chartered status
- Project management or financial management skills; this would be an advantage but can be learned.

Additional Information
**Life at PA**

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

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