Commercial Technician

Job Description

Commercial Technician Organise, provide data and reports that support the regional commercial delivery team in protecting National Highways commercial interests as a Balanced Intelligent Client. Organise, provide data and reports that supports the delivery of a consistent and high-qualityapproach to commercial and procurement services. Financial management of service supplier accounts. Manage team organisation, performance reporting and learning and development.What youll be doing

• Balanced efficient delivery of immediate defined outcomes and encourage continual improvements.
• Provide professional advice, identify needs, understand priorities and potential threats to team success, defining mitigation to achieve continually improving delivery.
• Payment of commercial and procurement service support suppliers
• Key in-team communication to and from the commercial and procurement directorate, supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Develop positive business relationships with external stakeholders to the team.
• Contribute to service delivery agenda, managing business expectations, optimising the ability to succeed in delivering team objectives.
• Maintain own CPD so that all necessary professional development activities are undertaken.
• Complete, including 360-degree feedback, annual appraisal to evaluate and plan professional development.
• Develop and maintain awareness of industry practices and external developments in the profession including networking, professional and industry publications and other means.
• Act as an ambassador, in the businesses support community, for commercial and procurement to enhance its directorate reputation.
• Diarising annual schedule of employee reviews.
• Maintaining documentation management relating to commercial activity in schemes.
• Personal development.
• Promote the commercial and procurement teams reputation through building visible and effective pan business relationships

To be successful:

• Use experience and knowledge to routinely deliver a consistent and high-quality approach to tasks. This includes delivering within policy and strategy, supporting business papers, team budget management, payments to suppliers, team logistical administration.
• Communicate, to the team senior managers, advice on cost management of suppliers with experience of using financial management, analysis and interpretation to achieve outcomes.
• Use experience and professional knowledge to respond to team issues to create an agile but consistent service. Make the team decision to escalate management issues when necessary.
• Analyse, and provide team management information and reports to identify trends and address issues proactively.
• Providing routine financial information to team managers to empower then to hold team members to account and deliver annual goals.
• Lead the planning and implementing of team training and encourage innovation, empowering and inspiring the team to continuous improvement.
• Proven capacity to absorb and analyse diverse information and use strong practical influencing skills, both internally and externally to optimise team success.
• Talent acquisition and training
• Service supplier payment
• Budget management

A bit about usNational Highways are responsible for operating, maintaining and improving Englands motorways and major A roads. Over recent years, investment in our highways has increased, this has led to advances in technology, such as smart motorways; enabling trafficto flow better. However, even more is yet to be done. Considering that a third of all traffic, two thirds of heavy goods vehicles, and 98% of UK businesses rely on them, and you can see why our roads, and what we do, matters so much.Its an exciting time to begin a career with Highways England as we invest £11 billion in our motorways and A Roads boosting capacity, tackling congestion and improving safety which is why were so grateful to our c 4,500 employees around the country. At thesame time, well improve how we work. That means we will be able to; plan roadworks better to minimise disruption; clear incidents more quickly; and save more than £1 billion by working more efficiently. When you work with us, youre helping to connect communities,sustain business and support the economy.Why you should join usAt National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. Were proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do betterand actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then youll be a great fit for our organisation.And finallyAnd finally we reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date, so we recommend completing your application as soon as possible.