Associate Commercial Practitioner

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

- 388717

**Salary**:

- £36,867 - £40,965
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer
- Band 3

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Type of role**:

- Commercial

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Liverpool

About the job

**Job summary**:
**_ Are you passionate about the NHS and do you want to progress your career in the UK’s largest public sector procurement organisation? If so, you have an opportunity to work as part of a strategic partnership driving quality across NHS temporary workforce._**

**Job Summary**

Reporting to a Commercial Lead, the Associate Commercial Practitioner is a key part of the category team. This role will form a key element of CCS’s partnership with NHS procurement hubs. The role will have responsibility for supporting the day to day management of the Health Worker Assurance function. This demands a level supplier relationship management through remedial activity and supporting assurance across the NHS temporary worker market.

**Directorate Overview**

Commercial is the largest directorate in CCS. We are responsible for the design, development, implementation and management of our commercial agreements, which are used by our customers across the public sector. Our customers rely on the deep category expertise of our specialist teams to design commercial agreements which allow them to access markets at pace while managing supply chain and regulatory risk. Our services also advise them on the best way to achieve value in complex markets. We have helped our customers:

- spend more than £34 billion through the agreements we create
- enjoy more than £3.5 billion in commercial benefits annually through our agreements

We use our deep knowledge and expertise of public sector suppliers, to create market and category strategies.

These strategies are used within CCS to create market leading commercial agreements that help shape how common goods and services are bought across the public sector.

Our skills are also used in carrying out commercial policy, development of new products and services and supplier relationship management.

**Job description**:
**Team Summary**

This is an exciting opportunity to join our HR & Workforce Category Team which manages over £4bn of Public Sector spend and be a part of CCS’s strategic partnership NHS Workforce Alliance. We are a supportive team of highly-experienced procurement and category management professionals.

HR and Workforce - Helping the Public Sector with everything from temporary and permanent recruitment, apprenticeship training, learning and development.

NHS Workforce Alliance - the biggest public procurement partnership in the UK, bringing together a wealth of trusted procurement and commercial expertise to benefit the NHS

We support government projects and programmes of national UK significance - helping the public sector to build back better.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Driving the improvement of quality in the delivery of workers across the NHS by supporting and training suppliers
- Considering and examining audit outcome reports and leading the support to suppliers in concluding remedial actions plans resulting from audits
- Examine trends in audit data to create and deliver training activities as part of the wider audit team.
- Deal with complex enquiries about a range of topics relating to the NHS Workforce Alliance audits
- Draft and produce accurate documentation within tight timescales and involving complex and/or sensitive material
- Supporting the planning and scheduling of health assurance audits and using NHS Workforce Alliance audit tracking reports and systems
- Manage and improve CCS and NHS Workforce Alliance systems and relationships to support collaborative management of audit remedial activity
- Supporting the planning and scheduling of health assurance audits and monitoring contractual arrangements and payment of audit related invoices
- Develop specialist knowledge of aspects of NHS Workforce Alliance audit policies and procedures and audit governance related matters.
- Support key stakeholders in dealing with difficult audit / supplier issues and complex queries

**Person specification**:

- Demonstrate ability to examine data and make informed results in an often complex environment
- Actively eliciting, evaluating and consolidating information and presenting such with supporting evidence in writing or orally; heading discussions or obtaining information from difficult or uncooperative sources;
- Taking forward customer or supplier related issues
- Helping resolve technical or specialist problems
- Aptitude to oversee discrete units under supervision but using initiative to respond to minor day-to-day changes in priorities and Inputting to unit business