Commercial Officer - SC

Role : Commercial Officer - SC
Contract Length: 120 days initially
Location : London, Croydon, Liverpool or Manchester (3 days/week on site  - whichever is closest)
IR35: Inside
Rate: £550/day
Security Clearance: SC

Minimum Requirement:

• Public sector procurement
• Contract Management
• Security Clearance: SC

Deliverables include:

• market engagement - planning; identification of required documents and their authors; recommendations; and engaging suppliers under a CCS Framework.
• procurement - production of documents needed for: the Invitation to Tender; commercial approvals; contract award and contract management.
• Contract Management – Commercial advice, guidance, support and point of escalation for BAU contracts.

Enablers provide common services across the organisation. Enterprise Services (ES) provision common IT services across the organisation. Both areas have contracts expiring that require re-procurement along with contract / commercial support for BAU contracted services.

Enablers are looking to re-procure their CRM solution and ES are looking to re-procure a number of services including MS Teams External Calling; Contact Centre Services and our Device Support contract.

We require an experienced Commercial Manage to support Enables and Enterprise Services including without limitation, the following deliverables:

• Market engagement - planning; identification of required documents and their authors; recommendations; and engaging suppliers under a CCS Framework.
• Procurement - production of documents needed for: the Invitation to Tender; commercial approvals; contract award and contract management.
• Contract Management – Commercial advice, guidance, support and point of escalation for BAU contracts.

Essential skills and experience:

• Experience of leading the procurement, through re-opened competition, call-off contracts for Information Technology (IT) from Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework agreements, as part of a multi-disciplinary team within a project or programme that is governed by one or more Boards
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary Buyer teams on market engagement that involved:
  • persuading stakeholders and team colleagues of the value of market engagement, factoring in their reasonable observations and feeding back how market engagement had been adapted.
  • identifying compliant opportunities to identify the team’s key information requirements from the market and the team’s key messages for the market through, as appropriate: development and application of questionnaires, with review of responses and identification of related actions; iterative sharing of draft documentation; running broadcast events and one-to-one events; and / or other means of market engagement.
• Experience of involving the incumbent in market engagement in a way that:Experience of working with a legal advisor to understand and mitigate risks and issues relating to procurement regulations
  • recognises the incumbent’s possible role as a bidder but also mitigates the risk that the incumbent is seen to have a material unfair advantage over other potential bidders.
  • applies contractual obligations to ensure timely provision of data about current service provision such as incumbent’s data on assets and personnel (to support other potential bidders’ assessment of risk against regulations for Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE).
  • recognises the incumbent’s role in transition from one contract to another, and potentially the incumbent’s role in transition from one supplier to another.
• Experience of working with the incumbent and a legal advisor to obtain information that can be shared with potential bidders to help them to assess TUPE risk
• Skill in persuading stakeholders and team colleagues to acknowledge and accommodate commercial perspective in writing, though informal discussion and by attending Board meetings, achieved by using language stakeholders and team colleagues understand in respect of risks and issues pertaining to time, quality, cost, governance and compliance
• Skill in listening to or reading written communications from stakeholders and team colleagues who may have low commercial awareness; identifying and then discussing with them the commercial matters, including regulatory compliance, that are implicit in what they are saying or writing but which they may not have recognised
• Skill in briefing legal advisors when seeking advice about matters that may be hazardous in respect of compliance with the public sector regulatory framework for procurement, including: identifying the points where specific legal advice is wanted, providing the background material legal advisors will want, and being able to discuss the matters verbally with them so they appreciate what advice is needed
• Skill in resolving differences between parties by finding pragmatic solutions, ideally on the basis of applying reasonable principles accepted by the parties and that are in the Buyer’s interest
• Skill in developing and applying a supplier perspective to market engagement including identification of possible concerns from potential bidders about risk transfer from the buyer to a supplier, and managing these concerns in writing, and verbally at market engagement events

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience in identifying and checking relevant government guidance (eg playbooks) for ideas and potential weaknesses in a market engagement approach, by considering the relevance of the guidance to the specific market engagement and the feasibility of applying the guidance
• Experience of procuring, through re-opened competition, call-off contracts for Information Technology

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on (phone number removed)

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

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We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

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