# Commercial Assurance Lead

**Company**: Government Commercial Function
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 76,942 - 84,637 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Commercial Assurance Lead role presents a fantastic opportunity for a commercial professional to engage and influence commercial arrangements for the nation’s major transport infrastructure projects.

The role sits within the Group Commercial Directorate, specifically in the Commercial Lifecycle Assurance, Supply Chain and Category Management (ASCCM) team.

The successful candidate will:

- Lead and support the delivery of commercial assurance of a portfolio of Projects across the DfT Group, including its Arm’s Length Bodies and Agencies

- Identify commercial risks and present solutions to key stakeholders

- Engage with and influence senior commercial leaders on approaches to development, implementation and management of complex commercial arrangements and risks across the Department and with wider Government

- Manage the interface between Projects and the Department for Transport’s Commercial Assurance Board, including providing assurance briefings to the Board, and managing the outcomes of the Board’s decisions

- Constructively challenge commercial approaches at Governance Boards

- Maintain a forward look of the commercial assurance pipeline

- Capture and share lessons learned across the commercial community

- Review complex, high value business cases as part of the Commercial Centre of Excellence function, and to provide briefings to the Commercial Director and Investment Committees prior to endorsement decisions

- Ensure alignment between progressive assurance and Commercial Assurance Board (CAB) reviews

- Provide reports on assurance activity and commercial considerations for each project

- Maintain a tracker for each assurance project to produce a formal review and approval stages history

Technical skills:

- Ability to analyse commercial risks and understand margins of error in developing recommendations for Customers and/or key stakeholders

- Experience of having had a leading role in complex commercial activities, with demonstrable experience across the commercial lifecycle

- A broad and deep understanding of commercial approaches, management and leadership, with experience in creating, interpreting and managing complex commercial arrangements

- The ability to challenge senior stakeholder decisions, work under pressure, and deliver multiple projects within agreed timescales

- Experience in the development of strategies for high value/risk, critical/complex procurements and playing a leading role in the implementation and end to end delivery of these

The salary for this role is GBP 76,942 - 84,637 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial risk analysis
- complex commercial arrangements
- leadership
- procurement strategy
- stakeholder management

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