Associate Commercial Practitioner

On behalf of Government Commercial Agency, we are looking for a Commercial Agreement Practitioner (Inside IR35) for a 12-month contract working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of 2 days minimum attendance in the Norwich office.

Government Commercial Agency (GCA) is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.

As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.

We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.

As a Commercial Agreement Practitioner , your main responsibilities will be:

- Commercial Agreement Management : Manage commercial agreements through launch, maintenance, performance and expiry stages of their life cycle in line with CCS standard ways of operating (SOPs). Execute commercial management principles to utilise leverage, benchmarking and market knowledge to deliver increased value and manage commercial risk.
- Stakeholder Management : Liaison with stakeholders and customers at a variety of levels to support the promotion of new commercial products and initiatives /procurement strategy via working groups, customer meetings, trade events, seminars, exhibitions and other events.
- Internal Relationships: The development of close and collaborative relationships with colleagues in the immediate and wider teams in order to ensure the delivery of superior service, increase uptake of the Commercial Agreements and value for money.
- Spend Management : The support of customer retention and growth plans in conjunction with the immediate team and CCS customer account teams and suppliers.
- Supplier Management : The delivery of effective commercial performance and contractual compliance of allocated Commercial Agreements and associated supplier(s).
- Supplier Engagement: Liaise with suppliers to establish and enact appropriate customer retention and growth of spend and commercial benefits through the Commercial Agreements.
- Commercial Benefits: The delivery and reporting of commercial benefits through service and cost management /improvement.
- Promotional and procurement activity: Support the immediate and wider teams in the promotion of Commercial Agreements and in preparation to go to market for new/renewed Commercial Agreements to required quality and on time.
- Category Knowledge: Develop a good knowledge of Commercial Agreements in your remit acting as a source of insight and advice. Deliver added value by having an understanding of category, customer and suppliers’ drivers which can feed into the Category Strategies lead by colleagues in the immediate and wider teams.
- Analysis of data: Review, interrogate and critically analyse data to identify initiatives that could deliver value, support the effective management of Commercial Agreements and suppliers on those agreements and to achieve organisational objectives of growth and delivery of commercial benefits.

Essential:

- Experience of managing Commercial Agreements
- Stakeholder relationship management experience
- Risk awareness experience
- PA23 experience / knowledge

Desirable:

- Public Sector Experience
- CIPs
- Presentation skills

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

At GCA, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. GCA is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. GCA believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, GCA encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".