Category Lead - Head Office Commercial

A vacancy has arisen within the MOD Head Office Commercial, Category Management Team, this role interfaces across the whole of MOD Commercial, Business Functions and other Government Departments including Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Services.As Commercial Lead the successful candidate will be expected to lead and establish market-leading category strategies, creating supply markets to meet current and future departmental needs. It is a high impact role requiring drive, enthusiasm and dynamism, the work will be pan-MOD and stakeholder management will be a key part of the role. There will need to be a strong focus on market and supplier base analysis, spend, cost drivers and contract requirements.This role will establish and align internal and external category expectations and deliver material change across MOD Commercial. Our customers have varied needs and expectations and strong stakeholder management skills will be needed to ensure that needs are fully understood and interpreted into a realistic commercial strategy.As an experienced Commercial professional, the applicant will be used to leading a team of Commercial specialists in order to meet business needs, the team size is approximately 5 members of accredited commercial staff at varying grades.Locations The successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. When selecting your location listed in this job advert please be aware that this will be your contractual base location with a requirement to spend a minimum of 60% of your working time in this organisational workplace. Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 60% attendance. This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.