Senior Commercial Manager (Services and Supplies)

at  House of Lords

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Senior Commercial Manager to join our Parliamentary Commercial Directorate (PCD). This is an exciting time to join as over the coming 2 years, we plan to undertake significant changes aimed at increasing our impact across the organisation. This comes on top of continuing to ensure the value for money from our nearly £1bn in annual spend and supporting transformational projects across the organisation and our estate, including at the Palace of Westminster which is a UNECSO world heritage site.
This role in particular will give you responsibility within the Services and Supplies category, supporting on the development of category strategies and sourcing requirements in line with business needs, as well as having responsibility for compliant end-to-end procurements. You will also have line management responsibilities for circa 3 members of the team.
This is an opportunity to work on a hybrid basis, with an expectation to be on-site at Parliament for a minimum of 2 days per week. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong experience and knowledge as a commercial professional, with understanding of Procurement Legislation and who is keen to apply their skills in a dynamic, fast-paced environment across various projects and stakeholders.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You’ll be accountable for –

• A specific category or sub-category, supporting the development of category strategies and delivery of sourcing requirements that are in line with business needs, as part of the team supporting business as usual and project activities.
• Responsibility for compliant end-to-end procurements, delivering demonstrable value for money and compliant goods and services contracts.
• Developing key stakeholder relationships and enabling critical early engagement that supports the development of effective specifications that deliver requirements in line with business needs, provision of commercial advice to stakeholders on all aspects of commercial, challenging business need and demand.
• Engaging where required, with the relevant senior business lead, ensuring that business requirements are supported by category strategies.
• Deputising for the Head of Category as required.
• Leading work on sensitive projects within a secure environment as required.
• Implementing, managing, improving, and promoting the use of systems, tools and data management to create useful management information to support the business in spend in your category.

If this sounds like something you would like to hear more about, please apply below

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

You’ll be accountable for –

• A specific category or sub-category, supporting the development of category strategies and delivery of sourcing requirements that are in line with business needs, as part of the team supporting business as usual and project activities.
• Responsibility for compliant end-to-end procurements, delivering demonstrable value for money and compliant goods and services contracts.
• Developing key stakeholder relationships and enabling critical early engagement that supports the development of effective specifications that deliver requirements in line with business needs, provision of commercial advice to stakeholders on all aspects of commercial, challenging business need and demand.
• Engaging where required, with the relevant senior business lead, ensuring that business requirements are supported by category strategies.
• Deputising for the Head of Category as required.
• Leading work on sensitive projects within a secure environment as required.
• Implementing, managing, improving, and promoting the use of systems, tools and data management to create useful management information to support the business in spend in your category