Associate Commercial Specialist - Networks and Cyber Security

Reporting to a Commercial Deputy Director, you will lead a portfolio of IT Infrastructure commercial specialists with a team of 7 sourcing specialists, consisting of 2 Commercial Leads, 2 Senior Executive Officers, 1 Higher Executive Officer and 2 Executive Officers.

You will be accountable for the overall category strategy ensuring that it delivers innovative, competitive, and compliant commercial outcomes that are aligned to HMRC objectives and maximise value for money.

You will also develop highly effective and trusted relationships with key senior internal and external stakeholders, most specifically in HMRC's CDIO technology Division. As part of the Extended Senior Leadership Team, you will be responsible for providing leadership to your Category Team and wider Commercial Directorate, whilst taking a proactive approach in talent development within your area of responsibility and beyond.

• Lead and provide direction for an overall category plan and future requirements, in-conjunction with key stakeholders across all functions, overseeing the procurement process across the category scope.
• Develop and maintain strategic stakeholder relationships across relevant business areas providing focused commercial and category advice.
• Using commercial acumen and extensive category knowledge, influence business needs, organisational objectives, and policy, ensuring market and sector intelligence is maximised and emerging and/or innovative solutions and suppliers are considered for all commercial activities.
• Using and well-established pipeline, proactively identify opportunities across micro and macro environments, which are then to drive improved value through innovative solutions.
• Working collaboratively with the business customer, as a business partner and with our colleagues in Commercial Contract Management to provide a seamless strategic commercial service that includes analysis to support make or buy decisions, market engagement/ development and delivery of the competitive processes used to select/ appoint suppliers and award contracts for all goods and services.