Salary: £58,468 £63,452 Hours: 36.25 Contract: Permanent Location: Manchester City Centre Advert closing date: Sunday 2nd February Interview will be week commencing 10th Feb Your role: As one of two Commercial Services Leads and reporting to the Head of Commercial Services, this role with overseas the wide-ranging Place, Fire, Digital and Corporate categories.
You'll work closely with senior managers and directors providing professional advice and managing resources to deliver their project pipelines for better commercial outcomes.
The postholder will have a team of nine to assist in carrying out a programme of tender exercises using open, negotiated and dialogue processes.
You will also have responsibility for workstreams of the City-region's Collaborative Procurement Hub, working with Heads of Procurement from councils, emergency services and transport to delivery efficiencies, raise the standard of public procurement and helping everyone achieve more.
You'll play a key role in driving the Commercial Business Improvement plan, ensuring the whole organisation is ready to take full advantage of the new procurement regulations.
Presently we're developing a new Contract Management Framework and the postholder will help stakeholders embed this with contract managers in the directorates.
You'll be able to influence the direction and scope of the team to create better outcomes for the people and businesses of Greater Manchester.
About you: You will be a well experienced procurement manager with a thorough understanding of public procurement and a sound commercial sense.
Your understanding of GMCA's political operating climate will enable your ability to make strategic decisions.
A high degree of professional and ethical integrity are essential.
You need to be able to build strong and trusting relationships through communication at a senior level.
You'll be expected to act independently and motivate your team in a fast paced environment.
About us: Greater Manchester Strategy GMCA exists to make Greater Manchester to be a place where everyone can live a good life, growing up, getting on and growing old in a greener, fairer more prosperous city region.
Led by the Mayor, Andy Burnham, our strategy for Greater Manchester sets out a route to deliver this vision for the benefit of our people, our places and our planet.
Working collectively across our city region, with our communities, we will focus on improved wellbeing for the 2.8m people here, with better homes, jobs and transport.
We will continue the work to make Greater Manchester a great place to visit, invest and study, with thriving businesses which are UK and world leading, in sectors including low carbon and digital.
We will look through the triple lens of a greener, fairer and more prosperous Greater Manchester, making sure activity supports all three themes.
We'll do it in a way which is inclusive, innovative and forward thinking, building on the pioneering and progressive culture which underpins our city region.
And we'll make sure we can be held to account, with a delivery plan showing the collective actions we are taking, and a performance framework to demonstrate progress.
Team Background GMCA's Commercial Team deliver contracts for around £200m of influenceable spend every year and through a business partnering approach we are recognised as adding real value.
As part of the Finance Directorate, the team has grown rapidly to match the demands of being at the heart of devolution trailblazing and now total 23 procurement professionals.
Our Collaborative Hub drives achievement for public sector procurement across the city region.
We take pride in our ethics and are advancing our Social Value approach at pace.
Taking our lead from Andy Burnham, we're here to facilitate change through smart commercial decisions and support end-to-end procurement support.
"The Commercial Services Team have a wide range of experience and backgrounds and really come together to work in an incredibly supportive environment, where no question goes unanswered you are never left feeling alone.
Procurements vary in size and route, meaning no two days are the same with plenty of opportunity for continuous learning and development." Carys Hopcyn, Senior Procurement Business Partner (Place) We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ Our offer: In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here: GMCA offer - Green book.docx Mandatory Information: Privacy Notice Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance.
If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.
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Please note we are not a licenced sponsor.
Hybrid working This role is part of GMCA's hybrid working scheme.
As part of our commitment to 'Build Back Fairer' in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing.
Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our Manchester city centre office & Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: 'Do what is right for you and the business on that day'.
If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.