Commercial Officer

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Newport, South Wales, is currently looking to recruit a Commercial Officer for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of £250/day Inside IR35. The post is mainly a remote role, with office attendance required once a month.Responsibilities:- Helps support the development and implementation of procurement strategies, undertaking soft market testing, identifying opportunities to develop effective supplier relationships, understanding costs, risks/ rewards, manage the category procurement pipeline and develops options for business cases, including articulating associated benefits and producing supporting arguments for the preferred option.- Provide advice to stakeholders on compliant routes to market.- Support refinement of requirements and evaluation criteria and develop ITT documentation for the procurements.- Support all stages of the procurement process in line with public contracts regulations.- Manage release of the requirements through the e-procurement system, including uploading documentation and responding to supplier clarification questions.- Ensure across the team all commercial activity is captured where appropriate within the e-procurement system.- Provide guidance and expertise on commercial matters.- Promote the delivery of excellent customer service.- Establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.- Build effective and supportive relationships within the team and share improvements and ideas/solutions to enhance team performance.- Manage the procurement pipeline for the respective category.- Provide Support to Category Manager and other members of the Commercial team.Essential Skills:- Ability to run a tender process from initiation right through to award (and advise throughout)- Ability to support in and advise in the management of contracts - 2+ years of procurement experience essential - Good level of knowledge of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.- Familiarisation with using Crown Commercial Service solutionsIf you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.