Salary: £58,468 £63,452
Hours: 36.25
Contract: Permanent
Location: Manchester City Centre
Advert closing date:Sunday 9th February
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. Youll 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-regions 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.
Youll 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 were developing a new Contract Management Framework and the postholder will help stakeholders embed this with contract managers in the directorates.
Youll 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 GMCAs 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. Youll be expected to act independently and motivate your team in a fast paced environment.
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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.
Well 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 well 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.
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Team Background
GMCAs 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, were 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'sage, 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.
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