Deputy Commercial Director

This contract with our defence client is for a Deputy Commercial Director for 6 months based in any of the following locations: Glasgow, Whittington, Andover – 60% onsite requirement – Some travel will be required across these hubs – expenses will be paid for any travel away from their base location.  

Summary of the Role:  

• Hold a Commercial Delegation to make contractual commitments on behalf of the client, with all the accountability and authority to ensure that there are robust procurement strategies for all procurements, that all contractual commitments represent value for money and are affordable within agreed approvals.  

• Deliver the agreed programme of procurements on time and to a high quality, engaging as necessary with customers, the delivery team and other enabling functions, the scrutiny community and decision makers.  

• Play an active and effective role in the Programme Steering Committees, Programme Boards, and other meetings, as the senior representative of the Commercial Function.  

• Provide both decisive and educated leadership, facilitating the engagement and effectiveness of the commercial team. Successfully engage, lead, coach and inspire the team to reinforce the client and leadership values. Deliver all required line management activities to ensure the team deliver their objectives.  

• Ensure that the agency's projects and programmes adhere to legal and regulatory requirements, contractual obligations and ethical considerations. Advance Government policy, including sustainability and social value, through all commercial relationships.  

• Support the Commercial Director by being a role model within the team, actively engaging in decision-making, leading by example, driving adoption of new ways of working and clearly communicating to enable the agency's Programmes Commercial team to fulfil its obligations and objectives.  

• Deliver cash and efficiency savings to support department financial position and maintain a category level savings pipeline, and demonstrate delivery against forecast  

• Deliver end to end category management strategies ensuring appropriate routes to market are used to procure in the most time efficient way  

• Ensure that Supplier Relationship Management methodologies and best practice is utilised throughout the lifecycle of the projects, programmes and procurements.  

• Deputise for the Commercial Director when required.  

• Represent the agency with senior government officials and industry executives; and support the delivery of their strategy and policy, as a key senior leader.

• Extensive construction and infrastructure experience  

• Complex requirements  

• High value requirements  

• Experience working within sensitive projects  

• Delivery overseas (ability to do this from overseas and not be hands on in the scene as such)  

• Strong leadership – proven experience with networking and stakeholder engagement at all levels  

• Cabinet office interaction  

• If they have defence experience that would be a bonus  

• Both public and private sector but experience with public would be good for understanding to hit the ground running  

• NEC 3/4 contracts  

• Large team size and be able to lead a large team up to around 50 – 100  

• MCIPS – high preferable