The closing date for this role is Monday 23rd November.
As Director of Commercial Solutions, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the next chapter of our Commercial Management and Procurement function. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you’ll set the strategic direction for the function and champion the value that great commercial, contract and third-party management can bring to Nest. You’ll lead and develop an experienced leadership team, bring people together around a shared purpose and build strong, trusted partnerships across Nest and Nest Invest. With a new operating model already designed, your focus will be on turning that ambition into practical, lasting change, creating a function that is more joined-up, responsive and confident in how it supports the organisation.
There’s real commercial breadth and complexity to get your teeth into. You’ll provide senior oversight of some of our most important technology and business process outsourcing arrangements, strengthen how we manage strategic suppliers, commercial contracts and third-party risk, and help us secure better value, performance and outcomes from these relationships. We’re looking for someone who brings strong commercial judgement alongside pragmatic, inclusive leadership, who can constructively challenge at senior level, navigate complex stakeholder and supplier relationships and find the right balance between governance, risk, pace and getting things done. Just as importantly, you’ll create the trust, stability and confidence that enables people to work well together and perform at their best.
Essential skills required
- An experienced and inclusive commercial leader, with a strong track record of leading, coaching and developing teams through change, building trust and bringing people together around a shared direction.
- Strong senior stakeholder and relationship management skills, with the credibility and judgement to act as a trusted business partner, influence and constructively challenge at executive level, and navigate complex organisational relationships.
- Significant experience of commercially managing complex, strategically important IT, technology and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) arrangements, with strong commercial contract management, negotiation and supplier management expertise.
- Strong third-party risk and outsourcing expertise, including experience of strengthening governance and controls while applying pragmatic commercial judgement to balance risk, value, pace and business outcomes.
- Experience of public procurement legislation and government procurement frameworks or, where this has not been gained, strong experience of regulatory outsourcing risk within a closely regulated environment.
- A strong track record of delivering commercial transformation and embedding new operating models, translating strategy into practical ways of working and creating sustainable improvements in service, capability and performance.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
- Hybrid Working Policy is 1 to 2 days a week in the office Expectation from CFO for Directors to be in the office usually two days a week as a significant amount of change needs to be rolled out across the teams.
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