IT Commercial Manager

IT COMMERCIAL / PROCUREMENT MANAGER

PRESTIGE ROLE WITHIN VITAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES, LONDON BASED £650 PER DAY...

The Role

The role sits within the Digital and Technology Commercial team and requires a driven and dynamic individual operating in a fast-paced high-profile environment. The successful candidate will act as the Commercial Lead working closely with the Commercial Specialist/Business Partner.

Responsibilities

• The successful applicant will join a small but high-performing, expert Commercial Team providing leadership, guidance, and constructive challenge to expert technical subject matter expert business professionals. The business environment in which the post-holder will operate is demanding yet rewarding, challenging, and exciting.

• The post-holder will continue to deliver value and manage performance and risk over the full procurement lifecycle, underpinned by working both proactively and in response to specific challenges/issues as these emerge, but always managing the stakeholders’ expectations effectively and sensitively.

• The post-holder will supply commercial leadership to a committed, delivery-focused stakeholder community, but at the same time benefit from the opportunities to influence stakeholders’ understanding, which in turn will offer opportunities to enhance their professional development and career aspirations.

• The primary responsibility for this role is understanding the stakeholder needs, leading, managing the planning and executing various procurement activities to deliver the requirements that drive value for money, is compliant with procurement law and which demonstrates best commercial practice.

Essential skills and experience:

1. Procurement Expertise - Procurement and commercial experience in a complex and policy-led environment, across the end-to-end lifecycle.
2. Manages Complexity: Experience of managing contracts with complex commercial structures to ensure value for money is achieved. Demonstrating strategic thinking, flexibility, risk management and resilience.
3. Decisive – Demonstrate skills and/or experience in developing business cases/plans, commercial strategies, presenting commercial options to business stakeholders and presenting commercial cases with robust and well-thought-out reasoning and justification for approval at programme and delivery boards.
4. Builds Relationships: Experience of building and influencing strong, productive relationships at all levels and with a variety of stakeholders with different backgrounds, perspectives, and motivations, in a highly complex, dynamic, and commercially focused environment.
5. Commercial Focus: Experience of delivering a high-quality commercial service across the full commercial lifecycle including knowledge and understanding of commercial policies, their practical application, and the ability to implement the latest commercial methodologies.

Desirable skills and experience:

1. MCIPS
2. Contract Management
3. Commercial finance acumen

Is This You?

If you are a Procurement / Commercial Manager with tech and IT expertise and are looking for a great new contract, don't hesitate send your application to us and we will be in touch straight away