Senior Commercial Consultant

Job description

Are you a Commercial Procurement Manager or Consultant with, project management or business analyst skills looking progress your career in a commercial consultancy?

We are looking for a Senior Commercial Consultant to join our Commercial Excellence Consulting team at NHS SBS.

If you are ready to be a part of a team where you can really make a difference, and learn and develop your skills, this could be the perfect role for you!

As a Senior Consultant, you will lead and deliver on exciting projects and be involved in some high-profile commercial programmes for the NHS.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role will be hybrid, with travel to client sites and NHS SBS offices across the country.

What you will be doing:

• Deliver commercial/procurement assignments/projects on time to a high standard.
• Manage and develop all levels of collaborator relationships internally and externally.
• Ensure effective client engagement during assignment, taking a proactive role in identifying any issues and potential solutions that may arise within the assignment and escalating these as appropriate.
• Develop awareness of consulting models and/or methods.
• Analyse data, understand trends and produce meaningful recommendations.

What you'll bring:

• A commercial background.
• Experience in delivering or supporting projects and or business analysis in a commercial environment.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills to interact with all level of people of the organisation.
• An eye for quality and detail, combined with an ability to think creatively.

It would be great if you had:

• Consulting experience
• Public sector finance experience (PCR 2015)

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Leeds, Salford, Southampton, Bristol or London
Security Clearance Level: BPSS
Internal Recruiter: Katie
Salary: £30,000 - £50,000 Depending upon experience and development needs
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.