Total 3 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Blackpool

Your role will be an Associate Commercial Practitioner (HEO) within the sub-category Business Services Team in the wider ABBSER Category.

The role’s overriding responsibility is to support commercial activities across the sub-category encompassing the full commercial lifecycle. This includes supporting our internal stakeholders to determine our commercial strategies for future delivery of their services, supporting procurement activities and undertaking contract management, supplier performance and relationship management.

We are seeking aspiring commercial professionals who are capable and enthusiastic individuals with relevant transferable skills looking to build a career in a commercial environment.

You will need to be driven, dynamic and a proactive individual with experience of building collaborative working relationships; be able to identify problems, build creative solutions, improve ways of working and work towards ensuring commercially sound outcomes.

Successful candidates will support CD in playing a crucial role in driving and supporting DWP’s efficiency agenda, helping better control costs through third party spend.

Person specification
Your role will be supporting the procurement and contract management of a portfolio of contracts throughout the commercial lifecycle. Full training will be provided on all aspects of commercial activity.

The main responsibilities for this position include, but are not restricted to:

Supporting procurement activity for specific Business Service initiatives across the full commercial lifecycle (sourcing, contract, performance and relationship management).
Provide commercial advice to a wide range of stakeholders to support colleagues with market engagement, sourcing, tendering and a wide range of procurement activities.
Stakeholder Management / Engagement / Communication.
Working with stakeholders at all levels (internal and external) to support the development of the Business Services strategy for commercial category initiatives.
Create positive supplier relationships, encouraging innovation, creation of “value add” solutions, and a strong customer service ethic.
Support the production and review on governance documents and processes for DWP Internal Governance alongside support to Ministerial, Treasury and Cabinet Office gated submissions.
Develop and maintain compliant input and records of commercial activity on Microsoft Lists pipelines and DWP’s eProcurement solution (which utilises Jaggaer) within the scope of your daily role.
Support the contributions towards supplier cost savings targets, and initiatives that increase efficiency whilst maintaining performance and risk management.
Supporting the development, review and execution of contracts including supporting negotiation where required.
Support stakeholder engagement surrounding more complex contract issues and procurement documents.
Play an active part in supporting Commercial Directorate values and culture.

Senior Digital Project Manager

Pay up to £66,058, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience in taking full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of a number of large-scale complex projects, utilising both internal and external suppliers.
• Demonstratable skills in effective project control, change control, risk management, ensuring testing processes are maintained, using data to respond appropriately and develop solutions.
• Experience of managing complex external dependencies that have required significant planning and prioritising in order to ensure pace and quality of delivery is maintained
• Concise communication with the team and stakeholders. Explaining complex issues in a way that is easy to understand and influencing Senior level decision making.
• Experience in identifying appropriate development for both themselves and their team to improve the delivery.

You and your role

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will be working on a number of complex end-to-end digital transformation projects, ensuring project control, risk identification & management, project reporting and stakeholder engagement. As a senior member of the team, you will be lending your extensive experience and skills to guide, support and coach a team of project managers.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £66,058

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and increasing by one day after 5 years, and up to 31 day after 10 years.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

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Planner / Scheduler required to work for a value driven not-for-profit business with a truly amazing team! The hours are full time, 35 hours per week. The main purpose of the role is to deliver excellent customer service and booking inspections, through effective resource scheduling and planning.
You must have previous experience in the co-ordination or planning of works! It would be perfect if you have previous experience dealing with repairs or damp and disrepair, however this is not essential. The role would suit someone who is highly organised and able to manage their own workload well and has a high standard of customer service! You must be a strong communicator for this position!

What will you be doing as a Planner / Scheduler?

• Allocating and planning inspections for both in house operatives and external contractors covering day to day and void jobs
• Monitoring and managing inspectors diaries to maximise productivity
• Monitoring and managing time taken to complete jobs, following up on outstanding work and ensuring both in house and external contractors communicate the status of the damp and disrepair allocated to them
• Being the principal contact for in house operatives
• Ensuring excellent customer service

If you have the following skills and experience, we would LOVE to hear from you:

• You must have previous experience planning and scheduling operatives / engineers works or distributing works for disrepair or maintenance
• Proficient with the full range of Microsoft Office
• Your previous job titles may include; Planner / Scheduler / Scheduling Co-ordination / Planning Co-ordinator / Resource Planner / Planning Officer
• Ability to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner when working under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Good written and verbal communication
• Effective liaison with staff/other stakeholders to give information/find information/resolve problems
• Organisation and ability to time-manage workload
• Able to deliver a high standard of customer service
• Ability to work well as part of a team as well as own initiative

What's in it for you as a Planner / Scheduler?

• Salary £26,500
• 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday - 35 hours per week full time
• Full training on the internal system provided
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Working for an award winning, not for profit business, who are truly passionate about what they do
• Immediate start can be available for the right person

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