Smart Edge's Client is looking for an individual to help with their Commercial UK
Experince Required :
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) 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 long-term category strategies to meet the long-term 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 multi-year 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 subject-matter 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 Bank-wide 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
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