Employment Category

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

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

- 327286**Salary**:

- £45,724 - £47,986-
**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Finance Group - Commercial Directorate**Type of role**:

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

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- The role available will be based in London (Westminster) - Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NA.About the job

**Job summary**:
**What you can expect**

If you like a challenge, you’ll feel at home with us at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). We’re a big organisation, with big challenges, big opportunities and we’re building a reputation for pushing the governments agenda in getting people back to work following the Covid-19 pandemic. If you are passionate, proactive, and can take ownership, and share our commitment to inclusion and innovation, we want to hear from you.

**Making the Difference**

The DWP is one of the UK's biggest government departments, building services that make a real difference to the lives of 20 million people. Commercial Directorate (CD) is one of the leading government procurement functions, is commercially unique and presents an attractive challenge for anyone wanting to advance their procurement career.

**Our Inclusive Culture**

We continue to grow our inclusive, diverse culture and focus on making CD a fabulous place to work. A culture where all our people feel themselves, feel valued, empowered, and have a voice that’s heard. We do this well and as a result have a culture where innovation is driven at all levels and by everyone

**Job description**:
Employment Category is well-established, with a great team ethos focused upon Commercial excellence, continuous improvement & knowledge share. The role of Commercial Practitioner is challenging and requires pro-active and innovative thinking, good communication skills and an outgoing and enthusiastic approach to challenges.

As a Commercial Practitioner you will support commercial activity across the commercial lifecycle, including leading on procurements and supporting implementation and contract management of high-profile, high-value and high-risk public contracts.

You will be required to work with a variety of stakeholders ensuring, providing information and advise to help senior leadership make appropriate and informed decisions.

You will support Commercial Leads with all necessary commercial activity to ensure Value for Money solutions are realised and category objectives and policies are met.

**Person specification**:
The roles and responsibilities for this position include, but are not restricted to:
**Commercial Strategy**
- Provide commercial advice to a wide range of stakeholders to support colleagues with market engagement, sourcing, tendering and a wide range of procurement activities.

**Stakeholder Management / Engagement / Communication**
- Working with stakeholders at all levels (internal and external) to develop strategy and tactics for procurement category initiatives.
- Create positive supplier relationships, encouraging innovation, creation of “value add” solutions, and a strong customer service ethic.

**Managing the Procurement Process**
- Producing, reviewing and advising on governance documents and processes such as papers for Commercial Board, Programme Board, gated project submissions etc.

**Leadership**
- Play an active part in supporting Commercial Directorate values and culture.

**Contract Management**
- Take responsibility for the development, review, execution of contracts including supporting negotiation where required.
- Commercial management of related suppliers including analysis of contract performance information.

**Application of Contract Law**
- Understanding of Public Contract Regulations.
- Be comfortable dealing with complex contract documents including interpreting terms and conditions in contracts and supplier agreements.
- Using and developing templates to draft commercial documents for publication such as Invitations to tender and contract notices.

**Other**
- Project manage necessary work streams and initiatives to ensure timely delivery of objectives, ensuring all necessary process, including formal stakeholder engagement and approval are completed.

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS**

The essential skills for these roles are:
**Contract Management/Risk***
- Provide evidence to show an understanding and awareness of procurement commercial projects, which could include where you have worked on strategies and sourcing plans, or end to end contract management / supplier management and commercial risk.
- Demonstrate how you have analysed and understood key management information and performance data to inform decision making.

**Sourcing options**
- Demonstrate & provide evidence of where y

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