Commercial Technician

Commercial Technician
Organise, provide data and reports that support the regional commercial delivery team in protecting National Highway’s commercial interests as a Balanced Intelligent Client. Organise, provide data and reports that supports the delivery of a consistent and high-qualityapproach to commercial and procurement services. Financial management of service supplier accounts. Manage team organisation, performance reporting and learning and development.

What you’ll be doing
- Balanced efficient delivery of immediate defined outcomes and encourage continual improvements.
- Provide professional advice, identify needs, understand priorities and potential threats to team success, defining mitigation to achieve continually improving delivery.
- Payment of commercial and procurement service support suppliers
- Key in-team communication to and from the commercial and procurement directorate, supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Develop positive business relationships with external stakeholders to the team.
- Contribute to service delivery agenda, managing business expectations, optimising the ability to succeed in delivering team objectives.
- Maintain own CPD so that all necessary professional development activities are undertaken.
- Complete, including 360-degree feedback, annual appraisal to evaluate and plan professional development.
- Develop and maintain awareness of industry practices and external developments in the profession including networking, professional and industry publications and other means.
- Act as an ambassador, in the businesses support community, for commercial and procurement to enhance its directorate reputation.
- Diarising annual schedule of employee reviews.
- Maintaining documentation management relating to commercial activity in schemes.
- Personal development.
- Promote the commercial and procurement team’s reputation through building visible and effective pan business relationships

To be successful:

- Use experience and knowledge to routinely deliver a consistent and high-quality approach to tasks. This includes delivering within policy and strategy, supporting business papers, team budget management, payments to suppliers, team logístical administration.
- Communicate, to the team senior managers, advice on cost management of suppliers with experience of using financial management, analysis and interpretation to achieve outcomes.
- Use experience and professional knowledge to respond to team issues to create an agile but consistent service. Make the team decision to escalate management issues when necessary.
- Analyse, and provide team management information and reports to identify trends and address issues proactively.
- Providing routine financial information to team managers to empower then to hold team members to account and deliver annual goals.
- Lead the planning and implementing of team training and encourage innovation, empowering and inspiring the team to continuous improvement.
- Proven capacity to absorb and analyse diverse information and use strong practical influencing skills, both internally and externally to optimise team success.
- Talent acquisition and training
- Service supplier payment
- Budget management

A bit about us
National Highways are responsible for operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A roads. Over recent years, investment in our highways has increased, this has led to advances in technology, such as smart motorways; enabling trafficto flow better. However, even more is yet to be done. Considering that a third of all traffic, two thirds of heavy goods vehicles, and 98% of UK businesses rely on them, and you can see why our roads, and what we do, matters so much.

It’s an exciting time to begin a career with Highways England as we invest £11 billion in our motorways and A Roads boosting capacity, tackling congestion and improving safety which is why we’re so grateful to our c 4,500 employees around the country. At thesame time, we’ll improve how we work. That means we will be able to; plan roadworks better to minimise disruption; clear incidents more quickly; and save more than £1 billion by working more efficiently. When you work with us, you're helping to connect communities,sustain business and support the economy.