Senior Commercial & Procurement Consultant

Evolve Commercial is digital procurement consultancy that provides commercial and procurement services to help our clients successfully deliver their complex and security-sensitive technology programmes. Formed in 2020, we are an exciting, fast-growing, and vibrant company who are looking for experienced professionals to join our growing team in 2023.

We can promise that working at Evolve is refreshingly different to working at your typical large corporation or consultancy. You’ll have the opportunity to play an integral part in the company and will participate in a complete range of important business activities, whilst actually influencing company development from day one.

To thrive in this environment, we only ask that you bring a high degree of pro-activeness, independent aptitude, and flexibility. If change is something that excites you, then Evolve could be the right career move for you.

We are fully digitally native and embrace the freedoms of modern, flexible working arrangements. We understand the challenges of balancing home and work life, so we promote a progressive approach to managing our business, alongside home life, which is based on delivering the outcomes that deliver the best possible value for our clients and our company, as efficiently as possible. This means that effective, valuable, and focused outcomes for our customers, our business, and you is our gold standard, and not ‘presenteeism’.

Evolve is a strong, close-knit team, who shares in great fun and great work. We strongly value the social aspects of working as part of a great team, which can be a challenge with remote working, so we enjoy regular face-to-face team workshops and social events.

We are growing this business together – so  whether this is the kind of fresh venture you’ve always wanted, you’ve come to a point in your career where you need something new and exciting, or if you feel like you want to test your skills in a new environment - then you will never find a better time to join us than right now.

Employee Management Incentive Programme

Evolve Commercial is, ultimately, the sum of its team. And, as such, every member of the team will have the opportunity to own part of the company in return. In 2022 we launched an Employee Management Incentive programme and have ringfenced 20% of the company to put into staff hands. This will enable employees to benefit from additional dividend payments from company profits (on top of bonuses!), as well as share in any benefit from any future business sale. You’d work to benefit Evolve, so why not have it work to benefit you in return?

The Role

As a Senior Consultant you will be expected to have the capability to lead and deliver complex programmes, using your own proven, comprehensive skills and experience, as well as support and guide team-mates. You will also work closely with the directors to play a key and active role in future company development and generating potential business opportunities.

Main Responsibilities

Company development:

• Client relationship management
• Help develop the company’s service offering and capability
• Help deliver suitable sales opportunities to drive company growth

Provide expert commercial & procurement advice to our clients through:

• Development of procurement and commercial strategies
• Owning and assisting pre-sourcing market analysis
• Authoring and supporting business cases for new procurements
• Management of tender activities using public sector frameworks
• Supplier performance management
• Undertake value-for-money analysis for business cases and tenders
• Advise on compliance with Public Contract Regulations and Defence & Security Public Contract Regulations as well as the clients’ internal policies and procedures
• Carrying out Contract Management and ensuring that files are up to date, providing an auditable trail of effective management 
• Identify and deliver existing and new opportunities, to generate value for our customers
• Provide customers with solutions to complex commercial and procurement issues

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong track record of effective and successful delivery
• Ability to build and develop effective relationships with clients
• Strong business acumen, with the ability  to adapt to different clients and quickly take on responsibility for new tasks, and use initiative to seek out and resolve problems
• Comprehensive understanding of Public Contract Regulations and ideally experience operating in the Defence or Security sector
• Strong understanding of technology procurement from a business perspective; i.e. knowledge of different types of technologies such as cloud, PaaS, SaaS, how they are procured and managed
• Ability to identify and manage commercial risk & opportunity through effective contracting
• Ability to deliver results to meet contracted deadlines and customer expectations
• Sound understanding of standard and complex contractual terms and ability to draft bespoke terms for customer approval

Qualifications

• Successful candidate likely to hold or be working towards CIPS/MCIPS or IACCM accreditation
• Other professional qualifications and a relevant degree or degree level qualification are also desirable
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance is essential