Senior Adviser, Timber Sales

Senior Adviser, Timber Sales

•    Location: Flexible within Wales

•    Grade & Salary: 6 - £33,424 - £36,559

•    Post number: 201731

•    Type of contract: Permanent

•    Work pattern: 37 hours

National Resources Wales are seeking a senior adviser for timber sales and it's open to marketers.

Benefits:

• Civil Service pension
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, 
• Flexible working options
• Occupational health including counselling, advisory services, eye care, tax free childcare and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose:

• Provide specialist commercial advice as the ‘Timber Sales Expert’ to Timber Sales staff based on interpretation of the regulations and rules, case law and precedents. 
• Assist the Sales and Marketing Team Leader to develop and deliver the NRW Enterprise Plan and deliver best practice in Timber Sales and contract management across NRW. 
• Coordinate develop, deliver and enable the implementation of processes and tools to support the efficient and integrated progression of business within a robust, flexible and EU-compliant Timber Sales and commercial governance framework. 
• Contribute to the development of NRW corporate policy and governance and monitor and advise on effective implementation in the business.
• Responsible for ensuring commercial guidance, policies and templates meet EU, UK, WG and NRW requirements through interpretation of highly complex and detailed documentation taking a risk-based approach and rolling these out across the team and the wider organisation.          

Qualifications and Skills:

• Desirable - 

• Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (Full Membership or nearing completion) Chartered Institute of Marketing (Full Membership or nearing completion), or acceptable alternative. 
• A willingness to study is essential

• Essential: 

• Demonstrable experience of input into a commercial function at a senior level in a diverse public or private sector organisation.
• Expert understanding of procurement / commercial concepts, governance and techniques, to practitioner level, and maintenance of this through a wide range of interests and peer group interaction.
• Astute customer focus, ensuring that customer needs are balanced with the requirements of the NRW commercial governance framework.
• Substantial experience as a practitioner in the application of commercial knowledge and the specific requirements of the post.
• Evidence of supporting commercial audit-based activities.
• Transferrable experience of delivering business objectives, preferably those involving sustainable development and/or commercial.
• Experience of working within a governance framework.

Closing date: 11^th October 2019

Interviews to take place when/where: Week commencing 21^st October 2019 (Location TBC) 

Please note, you must have the right to work in the UK in order to be eligible for this position