About the job

Job summary

Do you want to undertake a career opportunity in one of CCS’s highest profile category groups?

Do you want to lead in delivering significant growth opportunities this year and deliver market leading solutions to the public sector?

Do you want to take on an exciting opportunity to help build your commercial capability in CCS?

Job Summary

Reporting to the Category Lead, the Commercial Agreement Manager is a key part of the Category team and has responsibility for ensuring the effective day to day management of Commercial Agreements (frameworks). This demands a significant level of customer and supplier relationship management, which are integral parts of the role. 

 

Some travel will be required to customer and supplier premises and other CCS offices across the United Kingdom.

Commercial Directorate Overview

Commercial is the largest directorate in CCS and is responsible for the design, development, implementation and management of our commercial agreements, which are used by our customers across the public sector. We have helped our customers:

• spend more than £34 billion through the agreements we create

• enjoy more than £3.5 billion in commercial benefits annually through our agreements

Category management sits at the heart of CCS. We use our deep knowledge and expertise of public sector suppliers, to create market and category strategies. These strategies are used within CCS to create market leading commercial agreements that help shape how common goods and services are bought across the public sector. Our skills are also used in carrying out commercial policy, development of new products and services and supplier relationship management.

Team Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Construction Team which manages over £2bn of CCS’s c.£30bn spend. We are a supportive team of highly-experienced construction, procurement and category management professionals.

We support construction projects and programmes of national UK significance - helping the public sector to build back better.

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• End to end Category management of our Commercial Agreements

• Undertaking continuous customer and supplier relationship management, collection of supplier and customer management information, financial reporting, updating and analysing multiple data sources to identify trends and spending behaviours, alongside general commercial agreement management activities.

• Supporting the Category Lead in updating and developing the category strategy and presenting it to key stakeholders.

• Implement and support initiatives to retain and attract customers across the construction categories in collaboration with other parts of the organisation.

• Supporting the development of other team members, ensuring resilience in the team either directly or through a matrix managed style approach.

• Identifying and providing recommendations for improvement of processes and implementing solutions to the benefit of CCS.

• Maintaining and analysing data from a variety of digital systems for which full training will be provided.

• Communicating effectively to personnel of differing levels of seniority, using a variety of styles and methods that match the audience.

• Work across the category in a collaborative manner and on occasions lead and/or represent the Construction team on agreed corporate initiatives.

• Supporting and at times, leading on the procurement of future commercial agreements.

Person specification

Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen with the ability to analyse data and make informed commercial decisions

• The ability to lead on supplier and customer activities across the category, providing commercial support, advice and challenge

• Experience of category management, developing and maintaining robust category strategies and commercial agreement management.

• The ability to work proactively and collaboratively, in partnership with key stakeholders, leading, motivating, influencing and persuading both internally and externally to drive innovation and value for money, whilst developing customer commercial capabilities.

Desirable Criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

• Experience and understanding of construction markets.

In the event of a high number of applications, the desirable criteria will be used as a second sift.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,575, Crown Commercial Service contributes £11,808 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence WC 22nd April and interviews will be held WC 6th May either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

To find out more about our recruitment process please click here

Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.