Commercial Practitioner

Location: London or Leeds are preferred 2/3 days per week on site

Inside IR35

The candidate must be experienced in the End to end process of tender, ideally in a recent role with demonstrable evidence and ability to back up with strong examples.
Familiar with Strategy writing and must have very strong Stakeholder management skills.

This role is varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or level of complexity, value and risk within a category.
In this role you will be expected to contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department's key and strategic suppliers, driving value for money and risk management excellence across the category.

• You will be expected to support across the overall commercial life cycle.
• You will contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and use market insight to support the sourcing options, and work across the procurement process.
• You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.
• Working independently across end-to-end strategic sourcing activities for the department
• Engaging with key stakeholders across the department to support the team develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements
• Understanding, and being able to advise on, sourcing compliance and frameworks