Commercial Professional Services Specialist - Guildford, United Kingdom - Homes England

Homes England

Verified Company

Guildford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A bit about the role...

We are looking for a Commercial Specialist to support the Category Manager for Professional Services in the execution and maintenance of the Agency's commercial strategy and the implementation and operation of an innovative, cost effective, centrally ledcommercial function.

This includes procurement work, particularly those on professional services (including contingent labour) that fall under public procurement legislation.

The primary focus of the Commercial Specialist role is to manage the procurement activity, either by providing advice and guidance, supporting or delivering the procurement (including the procurement and management of Homes England frameworks), supportingthe implementation of contract management best practices and contributing to increasing commercial capability in the business.

This is a great chance for a talented individual to join a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose and drive to tackle some of England's largest housing market challenges.

A bit about you...

As a procurement professional, you will be able to demonstrate more than 3 years of experience in procurement, including the sourcing of complex and high value multi-million contracts.

You will have experience of public procurement and understanding of theregulations. You can demonstrate your commercial mindset and how you deliver value for money and great outcomes for your customers.

Experience in procuring contingent labour and professional services in particular - such as technical services for housing development, legal, financial or management services - is highly desirable.

You will have contract and supplier management experience and be able to demonstrate how you drive high performance from service providers and build great relationships with key partners.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy.

You will be resilient and comfortable building relationships across multiple stakeholders and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impactof what we do as a Commercial team.

You'll be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative and inclusive way.

A relevant professional qualification (ACCA, MIIA, CCAB, MCIPS, RICS) is desirable, as is a qualification or specific training or professional experience in disciplines relevant to property, regeneration or housing.

Who are we?
We are the Government's national housing agency.

Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues - meaning people are struggling to find homes.

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government's ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year.

We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and qualityof new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live.

Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes.

To deliver against these aims we're building a different kind ofpublic service - join us to help make this happen.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community.

We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England.

The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our toppriorities.

What we offer...

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working.

We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body we'll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you'll be good to go in one of our great offices.