SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL

Business Development

Somerset County Council is an ambitious local authority situated in an attractive part of the country. We commission, enable and provide a diverse range of services to over half a million people living in the County.

We offer an exciting and stimulating business environment which is driven by changing the way we work, how we meet customer needs and how we respond to policy and financial challenges. We are building an organisation that is positive, forward thinking and customer focused. This has included putting in place a new organisation structure and leadership team.

Business Development now provides a full range of business, commercial and transformation capability to the wider organisation. This includes managing some of our major suppliers, providing commercial expertise, and leading business and technological change.

We want to recruit people who share our ambition to deliver our change agenda and help build the Business Development function.

Salary up to £48,816

Ref No: 5912/JLB/MJ

This is a pivotal role in ensuring that the organisation is supported by robust commercial advice and support that helps deliver our new operating model and service review programme.

Working closely with the Strategic Manager – Business Client, your role is to support the commercial agenda and facilitate strategic commercial development across the organisation. You will lead on commercial and contractual aspects of strategic supplier contracts on behalf of the Authority. These include a number of our current outsourced services.

You will also play a key role in the direction of a range of significant change management and business improvement projects throughout the business and critically appraise and evaluate new service model and business case opportunities.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Donna Fitzgerald, Strategic Manager – Business Client on 01823 355243.

Full details can be found at Somerset County Council website. You can contact the recruitment team at recruitment@somerset.gov.uk or telephone 01823 356862 (24 hour answerphone). Please quote the reference number 5912/JLB.

Closing date for receipt of a tailored CV and a statement of suitability of no more than two pages of A4 setting out how you meet the requirements to be received by 5pm on 16th May 2013. Please quote the reference number 5912/JLB.

Interviews will be held week commencing 10 June 2013.