Commercial Delivery Lead

Commercial Delivery Lead – Generic with Specialisms Corporate Facilities Management or Technology

Description
The Bank’s Central Commercial Team is part of Shared Services which has responsibility to The Central Services 2025 design to drive improvements in delivery of services across the Bank.

The Bank exists to ensure monetary stability and to contribute to financial stability; the Shared Services Directorate provides the infrastructure and services required to support the Bank’s critical functions.

Department Overview
The Commercial department is responsible for ensuring valueformoney for the Bank and compliance with the procurement policies and regulations and managing thirdparty risk.

Job description

• This role is responsible for the delivery of responsibilities of the Bank’s supply chain including Commercial’s strategy and vision by collaborating with both the business areas under this role’s responsibilities as well as the Sourcing and the Policy and Operations Divisions within Commercial.
• This role will end up being aligned to a business area Corporate Facilities Management or Technology and will be discussed and agreed with you based on experience and interest.

• You will lead a team sized appropriately for the business area of which you are responsible.
• As part of the role you may be asked to grow the role and team and maintain a strong demand vs capacity position.

You will be responsible for:
Liaising with peers in the business areas and the other parts of Commercial to agree your teams support of the split of responsibilities (depending on the level of commercial maturity of that business area) and ensure the business areas are trained according to their role as Contract Owners or otherwise.
Influencing stakeholders in the business areas to promote and implement the internal procurement policy and supplier management standards developed by the Commercial Policy and Supplier Management teams
Assisting with the development of longterm category strategies to meet the longterm objectives of the Bank
Agreeing and commercially challenging strategic Commercial priorities with business areas
Assuring the delivery of the pipeline of work agreed with the business areas including all procurement exercises developing the markets as needed and realising value
Helping to maintain the multiyear procurement pipeline of work to ensure the team can deliver effectively
Managing the continued development of commercial competencies across the business areas in your category through regular engagement and formal training and aligning commercial and subjectmatter expertise
Manage any supplier dispute processes or complex negotiations
Be accountable for Gold suppliers as well as any cross tower (e.g. Framework) suppliers within your business area working closely with the Relationship Owners within the Business areas.
Promoting and managing the support of effective contract and supplier management helping to implement the Bankwide framework developed by the Supplier Management team tailoring it to recognise the commercial capability of each business area
Embedding effective risk management by implementing risk controls to drive compliance to policy
Driving sustainability in the category by notably working closely with Subject Matter Specialists
Identifying and maintaining a set of metrics to show performance and continual service improvement.
Align with the Commercial function’s efficient and consistent use of eProcurement systems in line with the defined workflows (aligned to internal policy)
Providing effective commercial challenge and complete quality assurance of tender documents (for tenders run by their team’s Commercial Category Managers)
Managing the workload and development of your team

Knowledge Skills and Experience required

Technical capabilities:
Consistent and significant proven track record of managing a complex set of suppliers and stakeholders to achieve Commercial optimisation across a timeline.
Delivering innovative commercial solutions through the application of strategic planning techniques
Experience of PCRlevel public procurement including using publicsector frameworks
Experience of working in a clientfocused environment on whole project life cycles
Experience of supplier and/or contract management (postcontract award)
MCIPS qualification (or equivalent Commercial experience)

Behavioural capabilities:
Strong stakeholder management skills and assertiveness with ability to challenge
Strong communication skills ability to build rapport and constructive relationships
Demonstrable influencing skills
Excellent written and oral communications skills with the ability to present and communicate clearly and succinctly at all levels
Selfmotivation with the ability to work both on your own initiative and as part of a team