Assistant Commercial Manager, Modern Workplace

JOB TITLE: Assistant Commercial Manager, Modern Workplace

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is upto £55,000 d.o.e

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Our Platform Anchor Day is Monday, with flexibility around the other days on site.

About this opportunity

Would you like to work on multi-million-pound contracts with global Technology Service Providers as part of the Modern Workplace Commercial function? We provide central, independent supplier assurance and informed analysis to ensure service quality and to positively influence the commercial landscape of our organisation.

What will I be doing?

Operating as an Assistant Commercial Manager within Modern Workplace which supports the Bank with end user computing needs. This role will provide both internal and external customers with the right information at the right time to schedule and deploy assets to the Banks users optimising the right commercial model balanced against opportunities and threats within the global supply chain. There is a need for you to support multiple customers across the Bank and with external third parties. The role will deliver effective insight, analysis and recommendations to profile supply and ensure costs are maintained and operate within Budget and to contractually agreed performance.

Is an effective communicator who is able to translate complex delivery challenges into plain English such that it can be understood by business colleagues and senior leaders.

You’ll support the Commercial lead for one or more contract agreements for the end-to-end lifecycle process of the agreement(s), from development through to execution and termination. You’ll process contract change control and internal & external communications regarding the agreement 3rd party relationship. You’ll support the interface between defined client functions and external parties, ensuring input (e.g. business and compliance requirements) and participation in decision making such as review and approval of performance and mitigating actions.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Working knowledge of PowerBI Desktop

• Evidence in managing relationships at all levels with internal and external customers, partners and suppliers to support the operating model.

• Experience of developing tooling and processes to enable accurate demand and financial forecasting.

• Experience in a Sourcing or Supplier Management would be beneficial

• Experience of developing a front-end visualisation layer for the various Modern Workplace product e.g. software licensing and/or hardware demand/fulfilment.

• Basic knowledge of DAX and Power Query (M Query).

• Experience of providing Management of data and using data to drive commercial and financial conversations

• Experience with ServiceNow.

• Debugging existing reporting when incident occurs.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Experience in providing Management Information.

• Experience of running major projects from End to End including solution or ad-hoc work requests particularly in terms of requirements capturing.

• Development and maintenance/refinement of reporting will be a core aspect of the role, as well as providing clear, regular updates to key customers.

• Ability to track, balance and manage risks and opportunities from inception to closure.

• The raising and management of Purchase Orders including invoicing, receipting and Journal Transfers.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.