As the Commercial Assistant Manager must have, strong analytical and attention to detail, especially with respect to commercial pricing models

Our company's Microsoft Business Solutions team is a Microsoft Gold Partner and leader in Microsoft software implementations for medium to large organisations, providing our clients with the ability to keep up with the ever-changing digital world by implementing Microsoft’s M365, Azure, Microsoft’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Engagement (CE) software from the Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) software line.

The Role

We offer an end-to-end learning service that combines advisory, specialist content, and learning delivery, building on the capability developed for clients. Our interdisciplinary Learning Services department aims to create a culture of learning by delivering quality, innovative learning that is easily accessible, embedded to the learner’s role and has a measurable impact. Learning Services is an integral part of our Consultancy practice and brings together our company's breadth and depth of subject matter expertise with our learning design and technology skills and capabilities to help improve individual and organisational performance. It is an exciting capability area that seeks to tackle the full breadth of clients’ learning needs.

Our work covers a whole spectrum of services at the scale and quality that the market is demanding. By closely monitoring market drivers and learning trends, we have combined a best of breed technology enabled platform with a modular approach, a library of re-usable digital content and a service delivery capability. Our Learning Solutions curriculum is designed to deliver more than just training. A core part of our offering is to help clients make the connection between what their workforce has in terms of measurable skills, what they don’t have and what they need to have. This helps clients realise their immediate and future strategic business aims.

The Commercial Assistant Manager works within a team to provide commercial support for all aspects of learning delivery including negotiation on product pricing to drive best value for money for our company and supporting the scoping and qualification of new requirements, allocating work orders and identifying areas to drive profitability. The role relies on strong negotiation skills specifically in pricing, experience in different commercial models and approaches and strong communication skills.

As the Commercial Assistant Manager must have, strong analytical and attention to detail, especially with respect to commercial pricing models. As a role model, the Commercial Assistant Manager must embody our company's values and demonstrate a commitment toward the accomplishment of the team’s goals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Drive pricing negotiations and represent the firm well

Strong commercial acumen focused on achieving value for money

Experience in benchmarking and market analysis

Work at pace to tight client deadlines

As required, guide and advise junior colleagues and manage tasks to completion

Support the release of new service offerings, such as:

Working with Commercial Managers and Delivery Leads to assist in the generation and tracking of supplier work orders for new service requirements.

Uploading work order details into the PO system

Providing timely and accurate Management Information:

Liaising with MI team to collate supplier MI.

Analysis of supplier MI to inform pricing strategies and approach

Required Skills

Demonstrable commercial acumen, ideally supported by formal study and exposure to contract law

Strong negotiation skills

Strong excel and numeracy skills

Ability to coach, mentor, advise and instruct junior colleagues

Able to analyse data and draw out key message

Extensive knowledge of working with suppliers

Organises and schedules workload effectively

Develops a breadth of technical, transferable and core skills

Able to interpret and apply commercial process consistently

Able to challenge assumptions and validate information within due process

Willing to build a deep understanding of the business area and show a personal commitment to meeting business needs

Willing and able to respond positively to demand and stretching tasks; bouncing back from any setbacks

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Stakeholder management and relationship-building skills; builds and develops positive constructive relationships across client teams

Demonstrates that they actively engage with others in order to address views and concerns.

Demonstrate curiosity and suggest new ideas, approaches and perspectives.

Ability to problem solve and convey information to client members outside the commercial team

Anticipates when others need support and offers help

Pro-actively calls out bad behaviour

Microsoft Business Solutions Overview

At our company's MBS, your long-term future is every bit as important to us as it is to you. That’s why our aim is to give you experiences that will stay with you for a lifetime. Whether it’s great training and development, mobility opportunities or corporate responsibility volunteering activities – you’ll gain a wealth of experiences on which to build a rewarding career. We’re a firm that encourages you to be yourself, values your contribution, and inspires you to act as a role model, always focused on doing the right thing for each other, our clients, and our communities.

This sets out all the different ways you’ll be rewarded at our company. Among other things, you can benefit from honest conversations about your career as well as a range of other rewards. In all these ways and more, we have created an environment that can bring out the best in you.

#Bethechange and #makethechange. Join our talented, successful team and make the leap into the future.

For this exciting opportunity we have put together a great package that combines a competitive salary with a bundle of extras including allowances, business travel allowances, certifications to support you in your career growth, private insurance, and medical insurance for you and your family.

Commercial Assistant Manager

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