Commercial and Procurement Consultant

Commercial and Procurement Consultant

Salary: £35k-£55k plus fantastic bonus package

Benefits:

• Performance-based bonus of up to 15%
• 25 days annual leave
• Remote working, South-West based with some travel to client sites
• Regular off-site team events and social activities
• Sales bonus
• Private Health Care

Location: Remote working, South-West based with some travel to client sites

We are:

Evolve Commercial is a digital procurement consultancy that provides commercial and procurement services to help clients deliver their complex and security-sensitive technology programmes. They are an exciting, fast-growing, and vibrant SME who are looking for experienced professionals to join their fantastic team!

The Role:

We are seeking Commercial & Procurement professionals to join the company and work in a consulting capacity to support clients’ complex technology programmes. This is a great opportunity to enhance your professional skills and progress to quickly become one of our future business leaders. As a key member of the team, your role will be to deliver our existing contracts by providing expert commercial advice to clients and help the company grow by helping to win new business.

What can you expect?

Influence

Evolve Commercial is refreshingly different to working at your typical large corporation or consultancy. You’ll be able to play an integral part in the company and will participate in a complete range of important business activities, while actually influencing company development from day one.

Modernistic

Evolve Commercial fully digitally native and embrace the modern freedoms and flexibility of home working. Travel is based on when it drives actual value and not merely ‘presenteeism’ – instead, it is for business with clients, quarterly get-togethers with your colleagues, and when face-to-face is beneficial.

Togetherness

A close-knit team; Evolve Commercial shares in great fun and great work. As such, we understand the importance of growing a business together, so whether this is the kind of fresh venture you’ve always wanted, you’ve come to a standstill in your career, or you feel like you want to test yourself in a new environment, then we are right for you.

Responsibilities:

• Support client and supplier relationship management
• Help develop the company’s service offering and capability
• Help win and deliver opportunities to drive company growth
• Support development of procurement and commercial strategies
• Assist on pre-sourcing market analysis
• Support business cases for new procurements
• Manage tender activities using public sector frameworks
• Involvement in supplier performance management activities
• Undertake value-for-money analysis for business cases and tenders
• Advise on compliance with Public Contract Regulations and Defence & Security Public Contract Regulations as well as the clients’ internal policies and procedures
• Carry out Contract Management and ensure that files are up to date, providing an auditable trail of effective management

Requirements:

You will be an experienced professional with a few years’ experience working in a commercial or procurement role. You should have an understanding and interest in technology procurement. You will be someone who appreciates the challenges of creating something new and is excited to ‘roll up their sleeves’ to get things done to build the company.

• Successful candidate likely to hold or be working towards CIPS/MCIPS or IACCM accreditation
• Good track record of delivery
• Ability to build effective relationships with clients
• Good business acumen, able to adapt to different clients and quickly pick up new tasks or use initiative to seek out and resolve problems
• Good understanding of Public Contract Regulations
• Ideally experience operating in the Defence or Security sector
• Good understanding of technology procurement from a business perspective, i.e. knowledge of different types of technologies such as cloud, PaaS, SaaS
• Ability to identify and manage commercial risk & opportunity through effective contracting
• Ability to deliver results to meet contracted deadlines and customer expectations
• Must have or be eligible for SC