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On behalf of the Department for Education (DfE), we are looking for a Senior Commercial Manager Inside IR35 for a contract until 31st March 2026 (likely extension) based Hybrid working (Remote with occasional travel for key meetings)

About us:

The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s services in England. We work to achieve a highly educated society in which opportunity is equal for children and young people, no matter what their background or family circumstances.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Senior Commercial Manager would be: 

• Key elements of the end-to-end commercial lifecycle, which could include pre-market engagement, sourcing and contract award.
• Managing a range of commercial projects individually and as part of a commercial project team.
• Proactively lead, support and challenge stakeholders throughout the commercial life cycle.
• Maintaining a category pipeline to allow commercial support to start in good time to ensure a full range of commercial options can be considered.
• Understand the supply market, category, and business context to inform and deliver the commercial strategy.
• Championing commercial capability throughout the Department and across wider stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of category management.
• Contributing to the development of the category savings plan and ensuring savings are realised and tracked.
• Using an e-procurement system to effectively manage and track procurement and end-to-end category management activity.
• Complying fully with public procurement law, DFE commercial procedures, policy, and assurance processes.
• Appraise the market to help develop requirements, inform sourcing strategy to drive strong competition and help secure best value for money.

Essential:

• Experience in a procurement, commercial or buying role, or of managing suppliers and contracts
• Evidence of leading and securing value for money
• Experience of analysing complex information to make informed decisions
• Evidence of influencing key stakeholders towards commercial solutions
• Evidence of managing projects to deliver successful outcomes and cost effectiveness
• Evidence of working flexibly across teams and working with a wide range of stakeholders to support competing priorities and demonstrating adaptability
• Ability to support change and meet fast paced demand.
• Experience of carrying out procurements using a wide range of different routes to market, including utilising Government Frameworks, examples include but not limited to G-Cloud, TePAS, DOS, DSP.
• Experience of managing procurement across the entire commercial lifecycle, including contract and supplier management.

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

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DfE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

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".