The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Commercial Officer: Digital Hardware Sub-Category your main responsibilities would be:

The Role:

The individual will provide end to end category management for procurements and contracts within the hardware sub-category. This will entail market research and analysis, running of procurements and management of contracts in this space. Procurement will be primarily through mini-competitions under existing CCS frameworks.

The individual will be responsible for:

• Maintaining an accurate and up to date pipeline of hardware procurements and contracts and interacting with stakeholders to both ensure their needs are represented on the pipeline and to ensure they are aware when commercial activity will need to start;
• Building and sharing market knowledge regarding the IT hardware market, and using that market knowledge to shape requirements and commercial approaches;
• Planning and running procurements for required hardware and associated services, recommending the appropriate sourcing route, running the procurement process (including advising stakeholders as to how they need to contribute), making recommendations into governance and finalising effective contracts.
• Providing commercial management of the resultant contracts and, through advice and oversight, ensure that stakeholders are performing appropriate operational management of the contracts.
• Reviewing the pipeline and existing contracts to identify saving opportunities; register and plan for the delivery of such savings and report on progress

You’ll have relevant experience in:

Essential Skills:

• Good stakeholder management and communication skills;
• Experience of running procurements through CCS IT frameworks;
• Negotiation skills;
• Ability to manage a busy workload with competing priorities;
• Contract and supplier management.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of IT hardware procurement;
• Knowledge of the IT hardware market;
• Ability to apply market knowledge to secure better deals.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.