British High Commission
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View Vacancy – Strategic Supplier Relationship Manager SEO – (64/23 PTA)
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Procurement
Main purpose of job: Within the SSRM team, we are seeking an effective Strategic Relationship Manager who will be responsible for managing a number of relationships between FCDO and its mid-tier supply partners. This is an exciting opportunity, which will enable the successful applicant to build and manage supply partner relationships, whilst enhancing their wider Commercial experience. This is a key role with significant responsibility for maximising FCDO’s relationship & operational effectiveness of high impact suppliers. The core purpose of the SSRM role is to increase the value of suppler relationships with the FCDO. This role requires an experienced all round commercial professional with a good functional background, excellent relationship management skills, commercial experience, project management skills and the ability to drive change and deliver business benefits. Individuals will be required to understand stakeholder and partner needs, influence effectively, have the ability to foster innovation and create synergies across portfolios – working autonomously and with discretion. This will require effective stakeholder management at senior levels, and the individual will contribute to and work within the Commercial and wider FCDO governance framework processes and procedures. This role is business critical for FCDO in developing our supplier relationship management capability. With a total contractual spend approaching £3billion, the effective performance management of the Department’s complex international portfolios is critical to achieving the FCDO strategic objectives.
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Seeing the Big Picture, Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together
30 January 2024
Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
Permanent
40 hours
Africa
South Africa
Pretoria
British High Commission
1
R 936,994.35 (per annum)
1 March 2024
Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed): Strategic Supplier Relationship Management & Contract Management training Working patterns: The UK in South Africa mission has a hybrid working style. The British High Commission pays in full for the Key Care Plus option on Discovery Health for staff including spouses/partners and dependants.
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- Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Pretoria are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in South Africa
- All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit
- The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;
- Obtain the relevant permit
- Pay fees for the permit
- Make arrangements to relocate
- Meet the costs to relocation
- The British High Commission do not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so
- Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount
- Information about the Civil Service Success Profiles can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles. Please note: AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
- Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates
- Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’. If during the reserve period of 6/12 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate”.
Pretoria
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