Procurement and Contract Management Leads

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PIP12197

On behalf of Government Commercial Agency, we are looking for Procurement and Contract Management Leads - (Inside IR35) for a 4-month contract working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of occasional attendance in the Liverpool or Newport offices

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 Procurement and Contract Management Leads - (Inside IR35) , your main responsibilities will be:

- Leading on contract management for one or more of the organisation’s most high-profile, complex and strategic contracts
- Ensuring effective stakeholder management , governance, performance management frameworks, escalation, risk management , issues resolution, financial management , change control and compliance
- Managing contract variations, providing practical advice and strategic direction
- Evaluating whether a contract is achieving a successful return on investment, in the light of value for money considerations
- Overseeing the realisation of benefits achieved as a result of the performance management regime or change control , and challenging non-delivery of benefits and escalates when required
- Driving innovation and improvement in contracts
- Managing risk and reward mechanisms in contracts and key performance indicators
- Identifying where changes in the contract are required, adopting strategies to implement these
- Performing contract exit activity, from pre-emptive action to transactional, process led tasks
- Evaluating suppliers’ performance against specific terms and conditions to ensure delivery of strategic outcomes and high contract performance
- Actively managing strategic relationships to deliver mutual benefit for those involved
- Holding both suppliers and customers accountable for their contractual commitments at a delivery level, resolving disputes effectively and efficiently
- Leading all planning and strategy for re-procurement, undertaking soft market testing
- Managing the disposal process of assets that are no longer needed once the current contract expires
- Advising on and mitigating risks to the continuity of supply, and owning business continuity approach for relevant contract(s)
- Maintaining quality and concurrency of systems, reporting and management information
- Providing performance and day-to-day management of a team, where applicable
- Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team
- Working within a secure environment upon sensitive projects as required

Experience

Contract Management :

- Has experience in managing one or more contracts of medium to high complexity/ value/ risk
- Has strong understanding of contract management and the principles of end-to-end commercial lifecycle management

Commercial Focus:

- Has strong commercial knowledge, understands the need for trade-offs in an area of responsibility, can apply the commercial principles within the boundaries of contract law
- Demonstrates the ability to lead on securing value for money through achieving good return on investment on commercial projects

Risk and Assurance Management :

- Demonstrates the ability to analyse risks and understand margins of error in developing recommendations and making effective decisions

Commercial Ethics:

- Demonstrates the ability to communicate standards to eliminate corruption, fraud and unethical behaviour in supply chains, taking appropriate actions in the event of any alleged breach of standards

Team Focus:

- Demonstrates the ability to manage and build confidence in a team in order to deal with setbacks and to resolve internal issues and can implement change at a local level by working with affected parties to identify and overcome challenges

Build Relationships:

- Has strong stakeholder engagement skills and can present technical advice successfully in order to influence internal and external decision making.
- Demonstrates the ability to articulate commercial motivations and expected behaviours of stakeholders, suppliers and networks

Essential

- Public Sector procurement or Public Sector Contract Management experience
- PCR 2015 experience
- PA23 knowledge or experience

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".