- Pay Rate:
£32,194.00 - £34,452.00 per annum depending on experience
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Permanent
- West Brompton, London,
SW6 1TR
Interim Commercial Analyst/Admin – Counter Tourism
Reference no: MPX TCLX 0007 C131 / 1
Pay Rate: £32,194.00 - £34,452.00 per annum depending on experience
Hours per week: 36-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Permanent
City: West Brompton, London
SC vetting required for this role
Candidates with current SC clearances will go through their vetting processes, currently this is taking up to 6 months. If you are already in a contract that potentially is not ending for a few months and this role is of interest, do let us know, we would be happy to discuss further.
This role is an integral part of Commercial Services. In 2020, the Commercial Function revised its operating model, establishing six Pillars which have overall accountability for activity covering the commercial life cycle, as well as relevant Business Partnering responsibilities across the wider business. This role supports all aspects of Category, Sourcing and Contract Management.
The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing, procurement and contract management teams and staff, working across the life cycle to give strategic advice on major programmes and helping to define the 'needs' on BAU requirements, through the contracting process and onto commercial contract management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing administrative support to commercial colleagues on ad-hoc basis as part of the team supporting business as usual and project activities.
- Assisting with development of category strategies for all relevant expenditure.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant contracts.
- Supporting the Sourcing process for a wide range of procurements, such as market engagement, supporting negotiations and assessing procurement routes.
- Maintaining routine catalogues within commercial systems to ensure they are up to date, liaising with colleagues as necessary.
- Ensuring effective Commercial Contract and Supplier Management within the category.
- Undertaking contract management actions such as contract administration, monitoring supplier performance and managing supplier relationships.
- Providing Commercial support and guidance to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Analysing data from corporate commercial systems (on/off contract spend) to help identify and drive value for money, efficiency and best practice opportunities.
A career in Counter Terrorism Policing (CT Policing) is like no other. Every day offers a variety of exciting challenges and exceptional opportunities played out on a regional, national and international stage. Your skills could help protect the UK. With the ongoing terrorist threat, there has never been a more important time to be working alongside some of the best and brightest to help keep people safe. Counter Terrorism Policing is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity. We do this by working in local to global partnerships, from policing teams on the beat and on the streets; supported by a national network of specialist officers and staff across the UK, to our investigators and expert advisors in every corner of the world.
Uniquely the police service, and specifically the Counter Terrorism network contributes to all four Pillars of the governments National Counter Terrorism (CONTEST) strategy. The Counter Terrorism Policing headquarters, on behalf of government and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), ensures that the CT network has the funding, capabilities and resources it needs to deliver CONTEST effectively and to keep people safe from terrorism. It does this through the provision of corporate services, as well as national operational tasking and coordination. It houses a number of unique national CT capabilities that support the entire network, as well as overseeing delivery of CT policing across the regions to ensure that it operates in a way that is both effective and efficient. Crucially CTPHQ represents CT policing’s interest within government and with wider stakeholders, ensuring that the policing contribution to CONTEST is both understood and appreciated. Hosted by the Metropolitan Police, Counter Terrorism Policing oversees the UK’s National Counter Terrorism Policing Network.
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Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience working within a commercial function or demonstrable experience of applying the principles of value for money.
- A basic understanding of the principles of category management and/or the contract lifecycle.
- Effective communicator who can build working relationships with a range of colleagues and stakeholders.
- Able to proactively manage own workload to deliver to deadlines and know when to seek support.
- Strong customer service skills and the ability to deal with enquiries, requests, complaints/escalations in a professional and proactive manner.
- Able to analyse and interpret diverse and often complex sets of information.
- Basic understanding of sourcing and procurement methodologies, as well as relevant Public Sector processes, policy and governance desirable.
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