Senior commercial and procurement consultant

Senior Commercial and Procurement Consultant Salary: £55k-£65k plus fantastic bonus package Benefits: Annual performance-based bonus of 5-15% 25 days annual leave Fully remote working, supplemented by regular off-site team events and social activities Company share ownership scheme Cycle to work scheme Personal performance bonus Sales bonus Private Health Care Remote working Location: Remote UK, with travel to the South West Our Client: Evolve is a digital procurement consultancy that provides commercial and procurement services to help clients deliver their complex and security-sensitive technology programmes.

They are an exciting, fast-growing, and vibrant SME who are looking for experienced professionals to join their ever-growing team in 2023.

The Role: Our client is seeking a Senior Commercial & Procurement professional to join the company and work in a consulting capacity to support clients’ complex technology programmes.

This is a great opportunity to enhance your consulting skills and progress to quickly become one of our future business leaders.

As a key member of the team, your role will be to deliver our existing contracts by providing expert commercial advice to clients and help the company grow by helping to win new business.

What can you expect from them? Influence Evolve is refreshingly different to working at your typical large corporation or consultancy.

You’ll be able to play an integral part in the company and will participate in a complete range of important business activities, while actually influencing company development from day one.

Modernistic Evolve are fully digitally native and embrace the modern freedoms and flexibility of home working.

Travel is based on when it drives actual value and not merely ‘presenteeism’ – instead it is for business with clients, quarterly get-togethers with your colleagues, and when face-to-face is truly beneficial.

Togetherness A close-knit team; Evolve shares in great fun and great work.

As such, they understand the importance of growing a business together, so whether this is the kind of fresh venture you’ve always wanted, you’ve come to a standstill in your career, or you feel like you want to test yourself in a new environment, then they are right for you.

Responsibilities: Manage client and supplier relationship management Help to develop the company’s service offering and capability Help to deliver suitable sales opportunities to drive company growth Develop procurement and commercial strategies Owning and assisting on pre-sourcing market analysis Authoring and supporting business cases for new procurements Manage tender activities using public sector frameworks Supplier performance management Undertake value-for-money analysis for business cases and tenders Advise on compliance with Public Contract Regulations and Defence & Security Public Contract Regulations as well as the clients’ internal policies and procedures Carry out Contract Management and ensure that files are up to date, providing an auditable trail of effective management Requirements: You will be an experienced commercial & procurement professional, with a good background in public sector procurement, as well as a comprehensive understanding of IT procurement.

You will be someone who appreciates the challenges of creating something new and is excited to ‘roll up their sleeves’ to get things done to build the company.

Successful candidate likely to hold or be working towards CIPS/MCIPS or IACCM accreditation Strong track record of delivery Ability to build effective relationships with clients Strong business acumen, able to adapt to different clients and quickly pick up new tasks or use initiative to seek out and resolve problems Comprehensive understanding of Public Contract Regulations and ideally experience operating in the Defence or Security sector Strong understanding of technology procurement from a business perspective, i.e.

knowledge of different types of technologies such as cloud, Paa S, Saa S Ability to identify and manage commercial risk & opportunity through effective contracting Ability to deliver results to meet contracted deadlines and customer expectations Must have or be eligible for SC Employee Management Incentive Programme: In 2022 we launched an Employee Management Incentive programme and have ringfenced 20% of the company to put into staff hands.

This will enable employees to benefit from additional dividend payments from company profits (on top of bonuses!), as well as share in any benefit from any future business sale.

You’d work to benefit Evolve, so why not have it work to benefit you in return?