Commercial and Procurement Consultant

Summary

Join Evolve, a digital procurement consultancy, as a Commercial & Procurement Consultant to support clients' complex technology programs. This role offers the opportunity to enhance your consulting skills, contribute to business growth, and influence company development. You will be responsible for managing client and supplier relationships, developing service offerings, delivering sales opportunities, and supporting procurement and commercial strategies. Evolve embraces remote working and offers a modern, flexible work environment with regular team events and social activities.

Requirements

• You will be an experienced commercial & procurement professional, with a good background in public sector procurement, as well as a comprehensive understanding of IT procurement
• You will be someone who appreciates the challenges of creating something new and is excited to ‘roll up their sleeves’ to get things done to build the company
• Successful candidate likely to hold or be working towards CIPS/MCIPS or IACCM accreditation
• Strong track record of delivery
• Ability to build effective relationships with clients
• Strong business acumen, able to adapt to different clients and quickly pick up new tasks or use initiative to seek out and resolve problems
• Comprehensive understanding of Public Contract Regulations and ideally experience operating in the Defence or Security sector
• Strong understanding of technology procurement from a business perspective, i.e. knowledge of different types of technologies such as cloud, PaaS, SaaS
• Ability to identify and manage commercial risk & opportunity through effective contracting
• Ability to deliver results to meet contracted deadlines and customer expectations
• Must have or be eligible for SC

Responsibilities

• Support client and supplier relationship management
• Help to develop the company’s service offering and capability
• Help to deliver suitable sales opportunities to drive company growth
• Support development of procurement and commercial strategies
• Assist on pre-sourcing market analysis
• Support business cases for new procurements
• Manage tender activities using public sector frameworks
• Involvement in supplier performance management activities
• Undertake value-for-money analysis for business cases and tenders
• Advise on compliance with Public Contract Regulations and Defence & Security Public Contract Regulations as well as the clients’ internal policies and procedures
• Carry out Contract Management and ensure that files are up to date, providing an auditable trail of effective management

Benefits

• Annual performance-based bonus of 5-15%
• 25 days annual leave
• Fully remote working, supplemented by regular off-site team events and social activities
• Company share ownership scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• Sales bonus
• Private Health Care
• Remote working