Role Overview
Nest are recruiting for Commercial Business Partner for a 12 month Fixed Term Contract. We are looking for an experienced public sector procurement professional with knowledge of PCR 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 to provide professional and effective procurement, commercial and contract support across the business ensuring value for money and transparency are achieved.
The employee will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:
- Good understanding of Managing Public Money, PCR 2015
- Excellent knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023 (including relevant training), legal and regulatory requirements
- A thorough understanding of the new Procurement Reforms
- Experience of running end to end procurement exercises including premarket engagement, drafting tender and contractual documents and evaluating tenders
- Experience of managing more complex, high value procurements
- Experience of supporting commercial agreements in either the public or private sector and reviewing terms and conditions
- Experience of using on-line tender portals
- Experience of purchasing a wide variety of goods and services
- A good understanding of Social Value in procurements
- Good understanding of how contractual arrangements work at an operational level.
- Fair knowledge of contract law and an ability to advise on contract and commercial aspects including those instances where a claim or conflict arises.
- Demonstrable experience of contract law or legal knowledge advantageous
- Experience in the private sector
- A team player willing to support other team members
Please download a full job description to see a full person specification and role responsibilities.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work from home (or a different location)
- work compressed hours
- job share
Directorate/Department Overview
The Commercial Procurement team is a part of the Central Support Services Directorate which also includes the Finance, HR, IT, Central Change, Facilities, Internal Comms and Commercial Management teams. The Commercial Procurement team consists of a Head of, three commercial business partners, a commercial procurement co-ordinator and a commercial procurement analyst.
The Commercial Procurement team are responsible for providing professional and effective procurement, commercial and contract support across the business ensuring value for money and transparency are achieved.
The bulk of the Corporation's expenditure is on external services. Third party spend is around £20m/£25m p.a. and growing. Procurement and contract management activity on the scale and complexity of Nest Corporation's demands an exceptionally strong team of experienced people from a variety of backgrounds, including procurement expertise, programme and project management expertise, commercial negotiation, contract and relationship management and business analysis.
Although the Commercial Procurement team does not currently operate a category management structure we do operate a Business Partner approach across eight Directorates, enabling the business to have one dedicated contact to approach with queries, for training and to discuss strategies and future requirements. At Nest there are fourteen identified categories which make up the portfolio of spend, including professional services, marketing, research, investment and IT. The Commercial Procurement team are therefore required to maintain a level of understanding about the category dynamics.
All team members report to the Head of Commercial Procurement.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We are a level 2 Disability Confident Leader under the Disability Confident Scheme. As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the guaranteed interview scheme.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
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