Role: Commercial Officer REF 98420
Contract Length: 120 working days
Location: Hybrid/London, Croydon, Manchester or Liverpool - 3 days per week in the office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Commercial Officer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMMERCIAL OFFICER
Without limitation, 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.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE COMMERCIAL OFFICER
- 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:
- 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 a legal advisor to understand and mitigate risks and issues relating to procurement regulations
- 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
If you are a Commercial Officer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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