The Procurement Manager, Commercial Managers, Senior Commercial Managers & Assoc Directors will be responsible for supporting various Defence clients in in delivering outcomes in disciplines such as Sourcing and Procurement, Contract Management, Supply Chain Management, Commercial Strategy Development and Execution, Business Analysis and problem solving, Organisational design, Business Transformation and Change, Tendering processes and analysis, Stakeholder Management.

Role - Procurement Manager / Commercial Manager / Senior Commercial Manager / Assoc Director

Location - London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield OR Teesside (hybrid working)

Type - Permanent

Salary - Competitive (DOE) + benefits

Key responsibilities of the Procurement Manager / Commercial Manager / Senior Commercial Manager / Assoc Director role and not be limited to:

• Conducting development and commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies, and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied.
• Examining risks to achieving project success and implementing appropriate mitigations.
• Managing complex, business critical or strategically important negotiations.
• 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 thru-life value-for-money solutions. Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual risk to senior project leaders.
• Administering contracts, identifying performance trends and taking appropriate action, evaluating non-conformance, dispute resolution, and applying enforcement tools, KPI's and remedies to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate.

Key skills and experience required Procurement Manager / Commercial Manager / Senior Commercial Manager / Assoc Director role and not limited to:

• Commercial, Procurement, Contract Management or Contract Placement (sourcing), in single source and competitive markets experience.
• Ability to identify the most suitable commercial approach to a given circumstance, including assessing the potential trade-offs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best 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.
• Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including Earned Value Management, cost analysis, and contract related management information systems.
• Experience leading teams and providing strategic direction (depending on level of the role)
• The role has responsibility for dealing regularly with clients / customers on complex, controversial and contentious issues.

To apply for this Procurement Consultant / Procurement Manager / Commercial Consultant / Commercial Manager / Senior Commercial Manager / Senior Commercial Consultant / Category Manager / Sourcing Manager / Assoc Director / Associate Director candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.