Senior Commercial Manager - Defence Procurement
Senior Commercial Manager - Defence Procurement
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Job Description
Within our South East region our team has strong positions with key clients in Health Local Authority Higher Education Highways Utilities Rail and Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors building their experience across a broad range of major programmes and projects.
Due to our continued support to the MoD on various national longterm frameworks we have a number of opportunities and are currently seeking applications from Senior Commercial Managers interested in working in the Defence Sector. An example of this is where Turner & Townsend is a Tier 1 supplier to Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) as a Programme Delivery Partner and Commercial Delivery Partner across their 14bn annual programme of expenditure to deliver critical UK assets.
As one of Turner & Townsends Senior Commercial/Procurement Managers your role could include Sourcing Procurement Contract Management Sales Contract Management Disposals and Corporate activities.
Along with strong core commercial management experience across a broad range of sectors and projects we are seeking candidates who have extensive Category Management and supply change management experience.
We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of technical understanding in their core area of activity.
Job Objectives:
- Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross government and departmental procurement agenda;
- Conducting commercial assurance of business cases commercial strategies and contracting approaches to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied;
- Accountable for providing commercial service delivery within budget on time and for providing commercial inputs to the project schedule (project action tracker);
- Managing complex and business critical or strategically important negotiations;
- Examining risks to project commercial success and implements appropriate mitigations;
- Developing supplier management strategies in order to maximise commercial leverage; and
- Devising and develops the strategy for transition to contract management.
- Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies to extract maximum value from contracts motivate performance and drive innovation;
- Proactive monitoring and contract management to deliver enduring thrulife valueformoney solutions;
- Monitoring supplier performance against KPIs to deliver successful outcomes (time cost performance);
- Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues successes and contractual risk to senior project leaders;
- Enforcing contracts through generating considerations identifying performance trends and taking appropriate action evaluating nonconformance dispute resolution and applying enforcement tools and remedies to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate; and
- Conducting peer contract assurance prior to internal DE&S and MOD approvals ensuring the correct commercial policy has been implemented
Required Skills:
- Significant experience of Procurement Contract Management or Contract Placement (sourcing) with some experience of the other in single source and competitive markets.
- Identifying the most suitable commercial approach to the circumstance including assessing the potential tradeoffs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best commercial outcome;
- Understanding and applying programme portfolio and project management tools;
- Taking ownership of decisions at tender evaluation stage and applying commercial expertise and judgement accordingly; and
- Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including EVM cost analysis and contract related management information systems.
- Will have at least 10 years commercial experience;
- Experience leading teams and providing strategic direction;
- Commercial Functional competence and skills at Practitioner or Expert level for premarket sourcing and postaward contract management
- The role has responsibility for dealing regularly with clients/customers on complex controversial and contentious issues. The role will typically be able to chair internal and external meetings involving senior participants.
Desirable Experience
- Single source/direct award procurements
- UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015
- NEC contract knowledge and experience would be a nice to have
Qualifications :
- A degree in Project Management Commercial Management Business Law or equivalent;
- The role requires specific knowledge acquired by obtaining CIPS 6/7 level Chartered status as well as additional indepth relevant work experience.
- Must have or being able to attain UK MoD Security Clearance British Nationals only need apply
Additional Information :
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy productive and flexible working environment that respects worklife balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
