Assistant Commercial Manager

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Key Information

Job Title: Assistant Commercial Manager

Band 2

Salary: Circa £42,000.00 (dependent on skills, knowledge and experience)  

Contract: Permanent / Full Time / Plus Hybrid

Location: Palestra, London SE1 8NJ

Hybrid working, within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 04th January @ 23:59

Overview of Role

TfL is a leader in leveraging its significant procurement spend to create social, economic and environmental sustainability to benefit those who live in, work in and visit London. We have a long track record of demonstrating best practice and realising sustainability outcomes through our Responsible Procurement programme. This role offers an exciting opportunity to join TfL’s Responsible Procurement team in creating social value for London and supporting TfL to meet its commitments within the GLA Group Responsible Procurement Delivery Plan.

You will have a chance to be involved in helping disadvantaged and underrepresented people into employment, ensuring that workers in TfL’s contracts are paid a living wage, mitigating the risks of human rights abuses in the supply chain, improving air quality, and working to reduce the carbon footprint of TfL’s contracts and services.

TfL uses both bespoke requirements and the Social Value Portal and London Themes, Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) to achieve and monitor supply chain sustainability outcomes. This role supports procurement teams in the delivery of sustainability outcomes including a focus on supply chain skills and employment delivery with TfL’s Supplier Skills team. The role sits in the Procurement and Commercial function and assists TfL in delivering added social value, value for money, and high stakeholder satisfaction. 

To succeed in the role the job holder will be required to identify, manage and deliver opportunities for social value outcomes through applying the Greater London Authority Responsible Procurement and Social Value Policy in a relevant and proportionate way to TfL’s procurement activity. The role requires managing a variety of internal and external stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the end-to-end procurement process in a collaborative manner with regards to responsible procurement and social value outcomes by building relevant requirements into contract and framework agreements and reporting on outcomes
• Provide subject matter expertise and advice to procurement and contract management leads, draft tender documents, evaluate bids and contract manage efficiently to deliver measurable sustainability and social value outcomes
• Lead delivery of the annual National Apprenticeship Week Recruitment Fair, providing an opportunity for our suppliers to share their apprenticeship vacancies / job opportunities to hundreds of potential candidates.
• Identify and support projects or activities aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of women and people from a Black Asian and Minority Ethnic background in the transport and infrastructure sectors and assist suppliers to open up opportunities in TfL contracts to people from a disadvantaged background.
• Assist reviews/negotiations of supplier performance with respect to the RP Policy
• Build internal, supplier and market understanding of TfL’s RP requirements through training, research and stakeholder engagement 

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively and to influence others through presentations, negotiation and written reports up to a senior level within TfL and externally (essential)
• Ability to build ongoing working relationships with internal and external partners (essential)
• Proven time and resource management skills to be able to prioritise work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment (essential)
• Strong stakeholder relationship management and written and verbal communication skills (essential)

Knowledge

• Knowledge and interest in current socio-economic and environmental challenges facing London and the UK and the role that procurement can play in addressing these (desirable)
• Knowledge and understanding of current legislative requirements (e.g. Social Value Act 2012, Procurement Act 2023) in procurement and/or sustainability (essential)
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office programmes including Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as AI M365 Copilot (essential)
• Understanding of some domestic and global sustainability issues and how these can factor into organisational decision making and drive value in procurement (desirable)
• Qualified to or working towards or CIPS professional standard or an equivalent sustainability qualification (desirable)

Experience

• Experience working in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment and managing a variety of stakeholder relationships (essential)
• Experience of the procurement process and contract and supply chain management OR experience of implementing sustainability or social value initiatives (desirable)
• Experience working in a team and ability to prioritise and work on own initiative (essential)

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process 

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV.

Word format preferred and please do not include any photographs or images.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 04th January @ 23:59

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure, and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.