Role: Commercial Strategic Lead
Salary/Rate: £630 - £730 per day inside IR35
Location: Hybrid London
Contract Duration: until 31/3/27
We are currently looking for a Commercial Strategic Lead for our government client.
This Commercial Strategic Lead role is hybrid, based between minimum 2 days per week on site in London, and the remainder of the week working remotely. There is no further flexibility with expected time on site, or the office locations.
The contract for this Commercial Strategic Lead position is until 31st March 2027, with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.
Security Clearance: Security Check ("SC Clearance")
This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.
Essential Skills / Experience required:
- Experience developing commercial strategies and policies from complex analytical evidence.
- Strong project management and strategic coordination skills across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including building relationships with senior industry and government partners.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of defence supply chains, critical minerals or global economic security issues
Role / Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership across the project, bringing together value chain mapping outputs, industry insights and policy proposals into coherent commercial strategies to strengthen supply chain resilience.
- Drive and coordinate the development of commercial policies into coherent sector strategies, ensuring they complement wider organisation and national economic security objectives.
- Build and maintain senior relationships across industry to align efforts and secure feedback and support for policy proposals.
- Provide a strategic overview of programme delivery, helping translate complex analysis into clear decisions and actionable outcomes.
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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans, spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses, partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process, if there is a better way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
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