Assistant Commercial Manager

Join Police Digital Service as an Assistant Commercial Manager - Starting at £40,000 per annum

The Assistant Commercial Manager will assist and support with allocated contract procurement and related procurement activities including market development, tendering, implementation, monitoring of procurement contracts and procurement administration. Support the monitoring of the over-arching supplier market and key market suppliers in terms of performance and stability and co-ordinate across the other service pillars. Highlight and track risks where appropriate. Support where required on complex, strategic, contractual and commercial negotiations.

Key Responsibilities

• To support and manage effective tendering activity for the whole procurement life cycle for high risk, high value contract procurements, in accordance with Procurement Legislation; implementation, monitoring and development of existing and new contracts, including negotiating and setting contract specifications.
• Utilise and support category management practices to profile, benchmark, research and assess the market. To assist in the management of procurement pilots, initiatives and product trials, and undertake market research for new or revised products, in conjunction with stakeholders, and record evaluations and recommendations, gaining customer, and where appropriate, supplier feedback. This is to ensure products are of ...