Dio - Associate Commercial Lead - Accommodation

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

- 266732**Salary**:

- £41,000- + Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% and additional benefits £1,500 Commercial Market Skills Allowance (MSA); individuals are eligible once essential criteria for this allowance is met. Please note that this allowance will be pro-rated for Part Time staff**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - commercial - Regional**Type of role**:

- Commercial**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Andover SP11 8HJ, Whittington WS14 9TJ and Glasgow G2 8EXAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe

**Job description**:
About our Accommodation team
The provision of good quality homes for Service personnel and their families is a critical priority for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) handles around 49,000 homes in the UK on behalf of the MOD and is also responsible for planning for future requirements and targeted improvement programmes.

The Accommodation Commercial team plays a key role in delivering contract management and procurement services for the UK’s armed forces. The contracts we handle are diverse and include the new Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) Accommodation, allocation of service personnel to accommodation in the private rental sector, management of the contracts for Legal Services and Furniture in addition to numerous PFI contracts.

We are looking for hard-working individuals with either shown commercial experience and/or transferable skills to join us and help make a real difference as we expand our team to meet growing demands.

As an Associate Commercial Lead in the Accommodation team

You will gain exposure to the wider DIO Accommodation teams - Regional Delivery, Assurance, Finance, Communication and you will assist us in supporting the strategic relationship with our suppliers and senior internal stakeholders while building collaboration within and across organisational boundaries.

You will be responsible for the management of a key suppliers and contract(s), ensuring that contractual obligations are met whilst maintaining DIO’s successful and collaborative relationship with its suppliers.

Why join us
This is a fast paced environment bringing both challenge and job satisfaction. The role will provide an opportunity to work within an encouraging commercial environment, allowing you to build and develop within procurement, stakeholder and supplier management.

With support from the team, you will be involved in the administration of payments to suppliers, including inputting to our finance end invoicing system. You will review extra contractual tasks, including performance/supplier management activities (meetings, reporting, supply chain checks) and estimates for consistency and adherence to the contract, collaborating closely with DIO colleagues and the supplier for agreement and logging of these.

You will have the opportunity to provide commercial advice and support to deliver the best value for money solutions and ensure all activity undertaken is in line with HMG procurement policy, applicable regulations, and best practice.

DIO’s mission is to Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique. To enable this DIO recognises that a diverse workforce is at the heart of different insights, ideas and innovation. A workforce diverse in background and life experience produces trusted public services and better decisions. We want our people to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an inclusive culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge so you can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

To enable this DIO commits to offering its employees:
The ability to obtain industry recognised qualifications supported by DIO

Free membership for professional qualifications including CIPS

Professional and Personal Development of skills

Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by DIO

Opportunity to join 6 networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee wellbeing and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers

Opportunity to drive and embed sustainable practices and solutions through delivering and managing sustainable procureme