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About the Role
Contribute to cost savings and operational performance improvements across multiple categories. Support the BlueLight Commercial team with procurement and contract management activities, analyze spend and financial data, conduct market analysis, and manage multiple contracts. Gain broad experience in commercial services and procurement, with support for CIPS qualification.
Responsibilities
- Support the creation, delivery, and ongoing development of category strategies throughout the commercial lifecycle.
- Support commercial and contractual negotiations and consult with legal teams to deliver contracts on time.
- Contribute to successful contract management of low-risk contracts.
- Manage the performance of appropriate contracts in collaboration with key stakeholders, making recommendations to mitigate risks.
- Liaise cross-functionally, supporting engagement, gathering information, and sharing best practice.
- Undertake research into regional and national best practice, maintaining awareness of latest trends to apply to procurement activities.
- Help develop and manage the implementation of category strategies and associated sourcing or tactical procurement strategies.
- Lead on low-risk sourcing activities.
- Produce business cases with support for small level spend using formal frameworks.
- Support the appraisal of risks and benefits of different options for business cases.
- Conduct supplier analysis, monitoring, and market research to identify risks and trends and suggest improvements.
- Complete relevant documentation to support decision-making on the best route to market for specific procurements.
- Support activities within the tendering process.
- Build effective relationships with suppliers, stakeholders, and internally.
- Support stakeholders with understanding and adhering to policies and procedures.
- Effectively manage stakeholders through commercial projects.
- Gather and analyze data to support financial planning and forecasting.
- Support cost estimation where required.
- Work collaboratively as a high-performing team, equally effective working autonomously.
- Undertake any other work as directed by your line manager.
Requirements
- Experience of supporting minimal risk project(s) through the full commercial lifecycle.
- Experience of supporting commercial and contractual negotiation(s).
- Experience of undertaking spend analysis trends and contributing towards recommendations.
- Experience of gathering and analyzing data to support financial planning, forecasting, risks, and business cases.
- Experience of effective stakeholder management.
- Working knowledge of EU regulations around the commercial lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of the social value tool and ability to use it in commercial activities / contracts.
- Knowledge of selection and award criteria in a RFQ or tender process.
- Must satisfy pre-employment checks including medical screening and vetting (NPPV3 & SC).
- Must satisfy employment eligibility check (right to work in the UK).
- Must satisfy residency qualification (5 year checkable history in the UK, resident in England or Wales for the last 3 years).
- Must satisfy employment references (last 3 years or educational / personal reference where applicable).
Skills
- Good written skills, able to produce varied documents.
- Highly effective communication and relationship management skills.
- Project management including using MS project or project management software.
- Good IT skills including Microsoft/Office 365: MS Teams, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
- Excellent organizational and prioritizing skills.
- Ability to deliver high quality work on time.
Location
- Remote
- Onsite (travel required)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Minimum 2 years’ experience within a commercial environment
Education Level
- A level qualification (or equivalent level)
- CIPS Level 3 qualified
Salary/Compensations
- £40,219 p.a.
Benefits
- Quality equipment for remote working (laptop, mobile phone, monitor, chair & desk, welcome kit box)
- 12% employer pension contribution
- Support for role and future career development
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Life insurance (4 x salary)
- 28 days annual leave (rising on service) plus paid bank holiday leave
- Birthday Leave (1 extra day per year)
- Occupational sick pay
- Wellness vouchers (eye test and flu jab)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 1 annual professional subscription
- Access to Learning Management System (free training & e-learning)
About the Company
- We are a remote and agile company passionate about being a high-performing team that looks after each other.
- We optimize technology to plan and deliver work visibly, collaboratively, and efficiently.
- Our values guide our behavior: Be the best, Be responsible, Be a team, Be open, Be the difference.
- We foster an inclusive and diverse work environment where people can be themselves, valuing every idea and perspective.
Equal Opportunity
- We foster a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where our people can be themselves. We value every idea and perspective towards helping us to evolve and innovate.