Procurement Commercial Manager - Technology (12-Month FTC) en Bank of England
Bank of England · Leeds, Reino Unido · Onsite
- Professional
- Oficina en Leeds
Location: Leeds
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The Procurement Division:
The Procurement Division is responsible for ensuring value-for-money for the Bank for approximately £300m of third party spend annually; and compliance with procurement policies and regulations when the Bank purchases goods, services and works. The sourcing team is responsible for undertaking the end-to-end procurement process across a broad range of categories to support all parts of the Bank, implementing category strategies and managing the future sourcing timeline; and is broadly organised into three business partnering teams, covering Technology, Property & Notes Production, and Corporate.
This role of Commercial Category Manager is within the Procurement Division’s Sourcing team. The position offers the opportunity to develop expertise in the procurement profession and further your procurement career.
This role will be part of the Technology commercial business partnering team, which is responsible for procuring IT infrastructure, hardware, software, support, cyber, data, consultancy (professional services), and cloud services.
The Commercial Category Manager is responsible for:
The delivery of a pipeline of procurement activity, in collaboration with stakeholders within the Bank and other Procurement colleagues. Activities include supporting the Commercial Business Partner, as well as leading on projects independently as a Commercial Category Manager. This includes:
- Developing procurement strategies and identifying routes to market
- Supporting business areas in developing specifications
- Producing tender documents including developing detailed award criteria, commercial models and selecting appropriate contract terms
- Managing the subject matter experts/stakeholders/commercial analyst through the full procurement process including supporting, advising, training on evaluations, managing conflict and communication.
- Administering the tender period including managing clarifications, co-ordinating bidder briefings and meetings
- Running the evaluation process including leading or supporting scoring moderation meetings and undertaking commercial evaluations
- Drafting and finalising contracts ensuring relevant risks and policies are addressed
- Managing the transition from sourcing to contract management of the live contract with the Contract owner/manager.
- Creating, reviewing, amending, managing approval, and publishing of notices for tendering opportunities and contract awards.
Other responsibilities include:
- Advising the Commercial Business Partner on the strategic direction of the category, by collaborating closely with colleagues across the Bank to understand business area strategies and long-term requirements.
- Generating and analysing essential spend data, market insights, supplier reports and contract performance metrics to support business areas.
- Providing governance support to ensure compliance with the directions of the Commercial Oversight Group and other management boards. Liaising with professionals in Finance, Environment, Social and Governance, Technology, Cyber, Legal and other areas, to ensure compliance with savings targets and environmental measures, amongst other interactions.
- Supporting the Commercial Business Partner embed effective risk management by implementing risk controls to drive compliance to policy
- Supporting the Commercial Business Partner with the development of commercial competencies across the Bank, through regular engagement and training.
- Driving sustainability in the category, by notably working closely with Subject Matter Specialists
- Working with the Supplier Management team to ensure supplier and contract management best practice is implemented in line with the Bank’s framework
- Providing support to the wider sourcing team to meet peaks in tendering activity.
Number of direct reports: None
Role Requirements:
Minimum Criteria
- Proven track record of managing a complex pipeline of work, delivering innovative commercial solutions through the application of strategic sourcing techniques and use of relevant systems and contracts
- Experience of the end-to-end sourcing process for high value and/or high complexity contracts
Essential Criteria
- Experience of working in procurement in the public sector.
- Experience of the Public Contract regulations PCR2015; and knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023
- Strong stakeholder management skills and assertiveness, with ability to challenge
- Strong communication skills, ability to build rapport and constructive relationships
- Knowledge and experience of a range of routes-to-market and contract models
- Demonstrable excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
- Demonstrable ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Self-motivation, with the ability to work both on your own initiative and as part of a team
- Attention to detail when drafting and reviewing documents
- Capability to translate data into meaningful insights for appropriate audiences and presenting outcomes to those audiences.
- MCIPS qualification (or working towards)
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of e-procurement systems (for example Proactis, Oracle).
- Experience of Corporate/Technology procurements and knowledge of industry standard forms of contract.
- Supplier and/or contract management expertise (post-contract award).
Our Approach to Inclusion
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
- A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
- 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
- Private medical insurance and income protection.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.