Details Reference number 357855 Salary £34,206 - £38,005 A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% GBP Job grade Higher Executive Officer Band 3 Contract type Permanent Fixed term Length of employment 1 permanent and 2 FTA (Feb 2025) Type of role Commercial Working pattern Flexible working, Full-time Number of jobs available 3 Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich About the job Job summary Do you want to progress your career in procurement? Do you want to be part of the UK's largest civil service procurement company? This job could be for you Job Summary The role of the Commercial Specialist (associate commercial practitioner) is to lead and manage high quality procurement projects for Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Category Teams and external customers to deliver their requirements. Working within the procurement Operations Team, it is the post-holders responsibility to ensure procurements are delivered in accordance with the public procurement regulations, UK domestic policy and with CCS standard operating procedures. Full training will be provided on the public procurement regulations, UK domestic policy and CCS standard operating procedures. Team Summary The procurement delivery team within Procurement Operations is responsible for delivering all types of procurement activity for both internal and external customers. The team currently has a presence across Norwich, Newport and Liverpool and works to deliver compliant procurement processes inline with current regulations. Procurement Practitioners within the team lead on complex procurements and manage procurement stakeholders from a range of organisations. Contribute to the delivery of the Procurement Operations business targets through the delivery of compliant and commercially sound procurements in line with the public procurement regulations. Providing support in translating Category colleagues and Customers commercial requirements, into a compliant procurement, which include specific and measurable evaluation criteria Manage the day to day working relationship with assigned Government Legal Department lawyers, ensuring any legal costs remain within budget Take ownership of the modelling of procurement evaluation plans, and provide guidance and training to evaluators Provide excellent customer service to internal customers (Category colleagues) and external customers, ensuring they are appropriately informed about progress, issues and risks in a timely and effective manner Use foresight and judgement to identify the issues and risks associated with the delivery of procurement results, and take early mitigating actions to minimise effects Ensure that a full audit trail is preserved on actions relating to individual procurements and that the central record is continuously maintained Capture lessons learnt and actively encourage the sharing of learning and development of best practice across the Procurement Operations Team Actively seek out and implement opportunities for continuous improvements within the procurement processes and CCS standard operating procedures Person specification Essential Criteria (to be assessed on application): Ability to lead projects, to prioritise your own and others workloads and to undertake independent decisions with regard to own and others workloads without reference to line management Ability to identify project risks, and escalate appropriately To be able to provide excellent customer service, by building and developing stakeholder relationships Ability to communicate with stakeholders to provide/obtain information, seeking clarified detail. To support knowledge sharing within the project/team Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together Leadership Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Benefits Alongside your salary of £34,206, Crown Commercial Service contributes £9,369 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect: Competitive salary Generous pension scheme A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6) Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays Explore fully how we will reward your work. Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack. At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people. We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitmentcrowncommercial.gov.uk Working flexibly, delivering outcomes CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours. 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 27-06-24 and interviews will be held 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 6 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 recruitmentcrowncommercial.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