Commercial Support

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

- 305178**Salary**:

- £26,029 - £28,393**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Apprenticeship**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Procurement and Contracts Management**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- LiverpoolAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**_ Have you always wanted to start a career in the fast-moving, innovative world of procurement? Do you want to wor fo the biggest procument company in the UK?_**

**_ Do you want to earn whilst you learn a new skill?_**

**_ This apprentice position could be your chance to start_**

**The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to begin a career in commercial Procurement and Supply. In this role, you will work as part of a fast-paced procurement team and undertake the Level 4 Commercial Procurement & Supply Apprenticeship.

An Apprenticeship provides work-based, on the job training and development. The training is fully funded so it doesn’t cost you anything - and you’ll earn whilst you learn. It will provide you with the skills, knowledge and behaviours you need to be fully effective in a designated role. With very few exceptions, you don’t need to have related work experience or qualifications to apply.

What is important throughout the Apprenticeship is that you put into practice what you learn, and capture evidence of this so your progress and increasing capability can be assessed.

We want you to get the most out of your Apprenticeship. To help you manage your learning we will give you, over the duration of the Apprenticeship, a minimum of 20% of your paid working hours to focus on skills development. This means you won’t be asked to study in your own time.

However, both the role and the Apprenticeship are very demanding and you will need to work hard. You will be assessed throughout and at the end of your Apprenticeship by submitting coursework, undertaking exams and presenting your work to others.

There is plenty of support and you will be part of a larger apprentice community and, where possible, we will get you involved in apprenticeship related activities, so you’ll get to know people outside of your own team or Department.

Further information can be found in Apprenticeship Standard - you should read this to see the skills, knowledge and behaviours you will need to have learned by the end of your apprenticeship.

There you can also find a link to the assessment plan. This will give you details of how the apprenticeship is assessed. For this programme, you will undertake nine exams in the first 12 months and once successful in these, you will undertake a 5,000-word project in 3 months.

**Apprenticeship Eligibility Criteria**:
This is a development role so to be eligible to apply, the training and development you receive during this apprenticeship must provide you with significant new skills and learning. This is an essential requirement for apprenticeship funding and means you must not already be over-qualified or over-experienced in this type of work.

In addition, you must:

- Be aged 18 or over (there is no upper age limit).
- Have the permanent right to work in the UK **and **have been ordinarily resident in the UK/EU/EA for 3 consecutive years before starting the apprenticeship.
- Have left full-time education by the time the apprenticeship starts and not be in receipt of funding for other learning programmes (including another apprenticeship)
- 5 GCSEs or equivalent in Maths and English at Grade 4/C or above or equivalent.
- 2 A-levels or equivalent

**Please Note**:
**Job description**:
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Follow established procedures and instructions to provide general administrative, clerical, computer operations and data handling support to procurement teams and customers in line with regulations and procurement policy.
- Support the management of projects, including updating project plans, risk and issues logs
- Arranging project meetings, booking venues, drafting agendas, recording actions, communicate updates, progress and action required and coordinate all responses
- Support risk management by identifying risks relating to own activities, taking action or escalating as required
- Support the drafting of tender documentation
- Responsible for managing the clarification processes
- Assist with the coordination of the evaluation of tenders
- Responsible for the production of commercial agreement contracts
- Develop strong working relationships with the Procurement and Category teams in addition to external Customers
- Support in the development and publication of written material for the maintenance and update of the CCS website, e-Sourcing systems and Contracts Finder and other corporate material as required
- Support continuous improvement across the team through proactive participation in improvement