Senior Commercial and Procurement Consultant

Location: Remote with travel to Bristol area a couple of days a week to client

Salary: £35,000-£55,000

Benefits

Hybrid working available (2/3 days a week in the Bristol area required)
Annual performance-based bonus of 5-15%
25 days annual leave
Cycle to work scheme
Private Health Care
Sales Bonus
EV Scheme

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 a Commercial & Procurement professional to join the company and work in a consulting capacity to support clients’ complex technology programmes. This is a great opportunity to enhance your consulting 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.

Responsibilities

Manage client and supplier relationship management and performance management.
Help to deliver suitable sales opportunities to drive company growth.
Develop procurement and commercial strategies.
Authoring and supporting business cases for new procurements.
Manage tender activities using public sector frameworks, Undertaking 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 commercial & procurement professional, with a good background in public sector procurement, as well as a comprehensive understanding of IT 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.
Strong business acumen, able to adapt to different clients and quickly pick up new tasks or use initiative to seek out and resolve problems.
Comprehensive understanding of Public Contract Regulations and ideally experience operating in the Defence or Security sector.
Strong understanding of technology procurement from a business perspective, for example - knowledge of different types of technologies such as cloud, PaaS, SaaS.
Ability to identify and manage commercial risk and opportunity through effective contracting.
Ability to deliver results to meet contracted deadlines and customer expectations
Must have or be eligible for SC.

What can you expect from them?

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 is a 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-together with your colleagues, and when face-to-face is truly beneficial.

Togetherness

A close-knit team; Evolve 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 they are right for you.

Commercial and Procurement Consultant

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