Commercial Specialist

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

- 368176**Salary**:

- £34,206 - £38,005- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- HEO**Contract type**:

- Permanent
Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- Until Feb 25**Type of role**:

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

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

- 3Contents

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Location
- Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), NorwichAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Job Summary**

The role of the Commercial Specialist (associate commercial practitioner) is to lead and manage high quality procurement projects for Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Category Teams and external customers to deliver their requirements. Working within the procurement Operations Team, it is the post-holder’s responsibility to ensure procurements are delivered in accordance with the public procurement regulations, UK domestic policy and with CCS standard operating procedures.

Full training will be provided on the public procurement regulations, UK domestic policy and CCS standard operating procedures.

**Team Summary**

The procurement delivery team within Procurement Operations is responsible for delivering all types of procurement activity for both internal and external customers. The team currently has a presence across Norwich, Newport and Liverpool and works to deliver compliant procurement processes inline with current regulations. Procurement Practitioners within the team lead on complex procurements and manage procurement stakeholders from a range of organisations.

**Job description**:
**Key Accountabilities**
- Contribute to the delivery of the Procurement Operations business targets through the delivery of compliant and commercially sound procurements in line with the public procurement regulations.
- Providing support in translating Category colleagues and Customers commercial requirements, into a compliant procurement, which include specific and measurable evaluation criteria
- Manage the day to day working relationship with assigned Government Legal Department lawyers, ensuring any legal costs remain within budget
- Take ownership of the modelling of procurement evaluation plans, and provide guidance and training to evaluators
- Provide excellent customer service to internal customers (Category colleagues) and external customers, ensuring they are appropriately informed about progress, issues and risks in a timely and effective manner
- Use foresight and judgement to identify the issues and risks associated with the delivery of procurement results, and take early mitigating actions to minimise effects
- Ensure that a full audit trail is preserved on actions relating to individual procurements and that the central record is continuously maintained
- Capture lessons learnt and actively encourage the sharing of learning and development of best practice across the Procurement Operations Team
- Actively seek out and implement opportunities for continuous improvements within the procurement processes and CCS standard operating procedures

**Person specification**:

- Ability to lead projects, to prioritise your own and others’ workloads and to undertake independent decisions with regard to own and others’ workloads without reference to line management
- Ability to identify project risks, and escalate appropriately To be able to provide excellent customer service, by building and developing stakeholder relationships
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders to provide/obtain information, seeking clarified detail.
- To support knowledge sharing within the project/team

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Working Together
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,206, Crown Commercial Service contributes £9,235 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.**What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect**:

- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
- Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
- Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
- Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

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At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.

**Working flexibly, delivering outcomes**

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