Commercial/procurement Advisers

7 months ago

East Kilbride, United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 285950**Salary**:

- £31,621- Please see the Job Summary for further information.**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Commercial
- Procurement and Contracts Management
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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Location
- East Kilbride, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**London based - **The total package for this role at HEO is £33,621 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £2,000.

**East Kilbride based** - The total package for this role at HEO is £31,621 per annum (non-negotiable).

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office pursues our national interests and projects the UK’s role in the world.

We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

This is a fast-paced and exciting role, working on programmes that make a real difference.

Purpose of the job:
The role is an integrated commercial advisory role that supports all parts of the commercial lifecycle: from early market engagement and pre-procurement activity, to procurement procedures and delivery.

The role provides vital commercial advice and recommendations to programme teams, including contract managers, utilising a working knowledge of public procurement regulations.

The role will help to achieve excellent commercial outcomes by using proactive collaboration to build and maintain stakeholder relationships (including supplier engagement) in line with the FCDO Commercial Strategy and FCDO Values.

It also contributes to increasing the Commercial Directorate’s influence of procurement and commercial improvement across FCDO’s spend to improve Value for Money (VfM) and resulting impact for FCDO and its businesses.

By working closely with internal colleagues to proactively seek opportunities to drive additional value and increase efficiency, this role helps establish business needs and assists in translating this into effective category-based commercial strategies that enable the achievement of VfM, whilst also maintaining commitment and achieving outcomes relating to relevant policy and strategic requirements for the FCDO and HMG.

**Job description**:
**In these roles you may be responsible for any number of the following**:

- Lead procurement projects: drafting specifications, tender documents, evaluation process, recommendation to award report and providing written feedback to suppliers, based on Public Contract Regulations. Protect the FCDO from challenge and reputational risk.
- Prepare draft contracts and contract variations, ensuring procurement delivery abides to the relevant processes (e.g., Open procedure, Framework call-downs/competitions, etc.) and the outputs supports improved VfM for the FCDO.
- As part of the category team, contribute to providing a high quality service, including stakeholder engagement, delivery against category strategy, market engagement and supplier selection.
- Support on the resolution of complex issues, including those that are perceived to be novel and contentious.
- Support development of robust sourcing and category strategies which demonstrate sound commercial acumen to cover key categories and deliver improved results and VfM.
- Ensure continuity and consistency of approach, using required tools, systems and processes to guide commercial activity and produce high quality commercial management information.
- Support the pipeline of projects and contracts using the FCDO eProcurement platform (Jaggaer) to enable accurate and timely reporting.
- Provide support on project governance. This will include drafting governance documentation, as well as presenting cases to the relevant governance boards for approval.
- Support development of market awareness, highlighting opportunities for innovation, VfM, improvements to stakeholder engagement and new ways of working for procurement.
- Develop and maintain technical expertise through personal, team development and L&D requirements.

**Person specification**:
**Minimum Criteria**
- Relevant procurement experience, understanding of the commercial lifecycle and knowledge of public procurement procedures.
- Strong written & oral communication, presentation and influencing skills with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Initiative, close attention to detail and accuracy, numerate and good organisational skills.
- Ability to work effectively at pace, successfully manage competing workloads and manage multiple projects and stakeholders requiring frequent communication, organisation, time management, and problem-solving skills.
- Analytical skills with the ability to collate and analyse information from a variety of sources. Draw out k

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