Department: Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Job title: Associate Commercial Specialist – Head of Category for Technology x 2 roles
Location: Assignment Location: Norwich, Newport, Birmingham, London, Liverpool
Occasional travel to CCS and customer/supplier locations.
Salary: £82,600 – £100,938. GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay
CCS is the largest provider of commercial agreements to Central Government and across the wider public sector, leveraging around £30bn per annum spend. As part of the Commercial Directorate you will be focused on shaping and leading our Technology category strategy and portfolio which delivers significant value across all aspects of IT procurement, products and services.
Your expertise in large scale technology procurement and leadership skills will be instrumental guiding and leading teams across the public sector in best practice procurement and development of leading edge commercial solutions and projects.
You will play a key role in developing category strategies working with multiple customers across central and wider public sector, driving innovative value-added services, and effective procurement routes to market.
You will be joining a team of around 130 technology procurement professionals who deliver commercial solutions across a range of central government and wider public sector customers.
As Head of Category you will be expected to engage with senior leaders and stakeholders to drive outcomes which enable value for the nation.
You will interface into strategic IT suppliers to the public sector, as well as SME’s, to be enable delivery of their products and solutions.
Your role will deliver outcomes which may include:
- Strategic agreements with global IT suppliers.
- Strategies for departments to drive value in their supply chains.
- Framework agreements – design, build, and operate.
- Buyer and supplier engagement and continuous improvement activities.
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Commercial delivery of large-scale enterprise IT solutions with key software, cloud, AI or tech suppliers. Includes implementing public sector(or CIPS-aligned private sector)procurement practice in complex customer/stakeholder environments.
- Deep understanding of software, cloud, AI and technology services industry, including current trends & key public sector IT suppliers. Proven experience in category strategy development informed by industry analysis and supply chain insights.
- Expertise and leadership in the delivery of software, cloud, AI, or technology services commercial outcomes through engagement, negotiation, implementation of IT supply contracts.
- Ability to build relationships with senior managers to set, and influence, strategic direction and deliver on their customer, service, or IT solution requirements.
- Demonstrated leadership in managing and developing high performance procurement teams, directly managed and in a matrixed structure.
For further role information, download the detailed candidate pack and to apply, please submit an application via Civil Service Jobs ref: 451293 before 11:55 pm on Friday 27th March 2026
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