Job description:
Project Selborne is a Transformational Training programme with a strategic goal of modernising Royal Navy training to deliver “better trained people to the front line, faster”. Project Selborne brings together a number of legacy Royal Navy contracts and in-house service provision into a single coherent training delivery mechanism with an initial value of circa £1 billion for the delivery of Naval Service Training across Royal Navy UK establishments.
As Prime Contractor for Selborne, Capita leads a complex Supply Chain in delivering this exciting and challenging major programme until 2033.
Role Scope
The successful delivery of Project Selborne’s objectives relies upon the effective management of a diverse and ever-growing Supply Chain in addition to a varied and extensive Training Equipment Estate of Government Furnished Assets.
The Commercial Supply Chain Manager, assists the Selborne Senior Commercial Manager (Training Support) across five key areas:
1) the management of Business As Usual supplier activity for a selection of strategically important Supply Chain Partners, some with a contract value of circa £20m per annum, including obligations management, change management and contract conformance
2) the management of Business As Usual Supplier activity for a selection of Training Equipment support and maintenance Suppliers, some with a contract value of circa £1m per annum, including obligations management, change management and contract conformance
3) provision of Commercial input to operational workstreams (including IT and Equipment and Asset Management) when required and as directed by the Senior Commercial Manager including supply chain management of a multitude of smaller value Suppliers
4) lead Business As Usual procurement activity to support the Capita Equipment function including support to on-going change activity in the Royal Navy Submarine Training School (RNSTC) programme
The role is multi-disciplinary and involves interaction with a range of stakeholders both internal and external. The Commercial Supply Chain Manager will be required to engage and provide commercial support across Operational, Programme and Finance workstreams in the management of all matters Equipment and Asset Management related. This will cover the whole contractual lifecycle, from development and agreement of proposals and their consequent implementation through subcontracts amendments, as well as the establishment and management of new suppliers from the origination and definition of requirement to the procurement, on-boarding and on-going management of delivery
