Commercial Specialist

**Commercial Specialist**:

- Job Req ID: 41225
- Posting Date: 2 Dec 2024
- Function: Engineering
- Unit: Networks
- Location: Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Salary: Competitive salary + additional benefits

**Working Style: 3 days a week in office, 2 days anywhere**

**Why this job matters**:
The Commercial Manager is responsible for creating, managing and analysis of the cost model associated with all strategic 3rd party vendor spend with vendors in Network Services. Understanding the technical requirements and volumes to create models that can be used to compare vendor responses. Responsible for collating all vendor commercial and pricing responses during RFIs, RFP’s to ensure the best commercial outcomes ahead of contract award. The role ensures our customers receive best in class services whilst ensuring BT group gets the best values for money.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Working with technical teams to understand requirements and volumes that will drive the commercial engagement.
- Accountable for commercial analysis supporting strategic selection of network vendors for BT’s estate.
- Creates authoritative financial models to compare vendors, interfacing with vendor sales teams to analyse and compare RFP responses.
- Able to interpret and digest complex and conflicting information to provide a financial comparison which optimises BT’s position.
- Leads engagement with vendors on clarification of commercial submissions.

**What you'll bring**:
MANDATORY
- Detailed knowledge of vendor pricing strategies and commercial approaches.
- Expert cost modelling expertise able to create comparison of complex and dissimilar data.
- Broad cross industry knowledge of network domain.
- Proficient in MS Excel.
- Data Analysis.
- Relationship Building.

NICE TO HAVE
- Familiarity with SAP and ARIBA.

**What's in it for you**:

- Tailored training and development opportunities to continue to build your career
- 10% on target bonus
- 25 days’ annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
- Direct Share scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages BT TV, including TNT Sports and NOW entertainment
- Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks

**About us**

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

**A FEW POINTS TO NOTE**:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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