Commercial Manager - IT

Job Profile
Job Title:
Commercial Manager - IT
Job Grade:
Level 5, Zone 1
Salary Range: £52,282 – £59,895
About Client
A Public sector client is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because they are not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy. They are home to the most important conversations happening today. And they are making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for all.
The IT Business Management Service within our Digital and Data Services (DDS) department, explores innovative and efficient ways to procure goods and services, focusing on quality and cost savings.You will Effectively manage Digital & IT Contract, Suppliers and Procurement to deliver the maximum value to the Council. Collaborating across teams, working in an agile, fast-paced environment.
About the role
The Commercial Manager
is responsible for all ICT Contracts, ensuring effective contract management and supplier performance is maintained to achieve quality and best value from all procurement.
You will plan and lead on all end-to-end procurement activity through requirements gathering, market engagement, procurement route options, appraisals, development of pricing schedules, evaluating and contract award. working in collaboration with colleagues from Corporate Procurement, Legal, Finance and other departments.
You will lead on the supplier relationship management across Digital and Data Services. Develop strategic relationship with key vendors and ensuring delivery meats agreed SLA, milestone, and road map.
You will maintain DDS contract register and review all IT contracts and analyse spend across the Council. Influencing stakeholders and suppliers to merge/combine contracts and renegotiating to achieve savings and efficiencies.
Example outcomes or objectives that this role will deliver.
To ensure that procurement and contract management standards are established, maintained, disseminated, and follow consistently across the Digital and Data Services (DDS).
To identify and deliver cost efficiency savings together with Social Value benefits from all new procurements and existing contracts where appropriate.
To lead on all end-to-end procurement activities across Digital and Data Services (DDS). offering innovative solutions and timely procurement options to meet the service requirements.
To maintain the DDS contract register, monitor and plan timely contract renewals.
To review all contracts and analyse spend across the Council, with the view of unifying/merging all similar contracts to improve efficiency, quality, achieving best value and cost saving.
Develop and implement robust and effective policies, processes, and systems to support contract management, Supplier and supply chain management, and procurement activities, ensuring compliance with internal governance, Council Financial and Contract Standing Orders.
To provide high level purchasing support, ensuring all purchase orders are compliant with Councils governance.
To develop and maintain effective and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, service users and other key teams such as corporate procurement, Finance and Legal.
About you
CIPS qualification, or equivalent industryexperience.
Proficient in understanding the products and/ or services supplied to the Council by external suppliers.
Proficient in product evaluation and selection (the analytical comparison of IT products against specified criteria, including costs, to determine the solution which best meets the business need).
Proficient in contract negotiations (methods, techniques and frameworks for negotiating contracts for the supply of IT products and services).
Proficient in principles of contract law (including knowledgeand understanding of general contract law principles and awareness of potential issues and risks in contracts, such as limitations of liability, indemnities, warranties and termination rights).
Work environment.
You will be required to work in line with Client’s agile working framework including flexible and remote working patterns which are a combination of office-based and home working, as required by the service and effective delivery of services within that framework.
People management responsibilities
Take a leading role in the council’s shift to progressive ways of working while continuously coaching across the organisation.
Coach your own and other teams to improve their ways of working, to get more productive and effective.
Relationships
Internal at all levels including executive, senior officer, officer and members.
External, including local government, voluntary sector, public, private, membership bodies, professional bodies agencies and other suppliers.
To represent Digital and Data Services and the Council at national and international level.
You will work closely with all Digital and Data Services (DDS) teams to coordinate procurement activity.
This post reports to theBusiness Manager.
Over to you
They are ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help them redefine how they are supporting people, and They ’ll redefine what a career can be. If that sounds good to you, they ’d love to talk.
Diversity & Inclusion
Client value and celebrate difference and encourage diversity in all respects. Our diverse workforce ensures they represent the communities to the best of their ability and enables to make better decisions. Because of this, they particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of other non-white ethnicities, those who identify as LGBT+, neurodiverse and disabled people.
Agile working
Client view work as an activity, not a place. They focus on performance, not presenteeism. They create trusting relationships; they embrace innovation rather than bureaucracy and They value people. Collaboration is the Client way, silo working isn’t.
Client is proud to be one of Hire Me My Way’s inaugural campaign supporters. Hire Me My Way is a national campaign led by Timewise, designed to increase the volume of good quality jobs that can be worked flexibly in the UK (www.HireMeMyWay.org.uk). Hire Me My Way aims to treble the number of available good quality flexible jobs to 1 million by 2020.
Asking for Adjustments
Client is committed to making their recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on +44 (0)20 ##### #####, at #####