Mohammed Aqab

• Providing commercial advice to customers for end-to-end
commercial lifecycle, advising on commercial strategy and
planning, procurement, routes to market including, liaising with
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and other government
departments (OGDs) to enable the procurement and contract
management activity of the department.
• Work with business areas to build a robust commercial pipeline,
contributing to effective forward planning for commercial
activity.
• Lead and deliver procurements from CCS and other Frameworks.
• Advise on and shape requirements, helping business unit
customers to act as intelligent customers to wider stakeholders,
CCS and OGD.
• Conduct pre-market engagement/research and analyse industry
trends to inform procurement decisions. Identifying appropriate
routes to market.
• Work with customers to maintain accurate commercial records in
the Contract Management System (Atamis)
• Assist in the review of commercial business cases and support
customers in progressing through commercial and spend
controls and approvals.
• Ensure procurement requirements comply with procurement
regulations, security policies and budget constraints.
• Advise customers on the effective management of contracts for
the business area, helping to ensure that Contract Management
best practice is implemented for all live contracts.
• Assess commercial data for both accuracy and audit purposes
and provide input to management reports and other requests for
information.
• Line Management of commercial staff.

• Lead in key elements of the end-to-end commercial lifecycle,
which could include pre-market engagement, sourcing, contract
award and contract management.
• Managed a range of commercial projects individually and as
part of a commercial project team.
• Maintained a category pipeline to allow commercial support
to start in good time to ensure a full range of commercial
options can be considered.
• Understand the supply market, category, and business
context to inform and deliver the commercial strategy.

• Developed and manage relationships internally across the
Department for Education to encourage joined-up working and
help connect our Schools Buying Programme into other
Department initiatives.
• Thinking and act strategically, developing evidence-based
delivery proposals and plans, based on a sound understanding of
the School Business Professional environment and culture in the
sector.
• Presented at a range of events, local, regional, national and
online to support the work of Schools Commercial Team, raising
awareness across the sector, and promoting behavior change in
the school buying landscape.
• Engaged actively with our customers, suppliers and stakeholders,
responding to customer questions, listening to needs, capturing
feedback and sector insight, to ensure the teams work is
informed and improved by the views of users.
• Gathered and use insight, feedback and comments from the
sector and share this with the wider team.
• Championed and advocated the needs of the user across Schools
Commercial Team, listening to and understanding the issues
facing the sector, critically identifying problems to be addressed,
analysing issues, researching possible solutions and presenting
detailed findings that support strategic actions.
• Worked closely with stakeholder organisations, such as Institute
of Business Leaders (ISBL), Association of School and College
Leaders (ASCL) and National Association of Head Teachers
(NAHT) to understand their members needs and priorities.

• Be the key contact for the client and engage with their
Procurement team.
• Proactively advised each client on areas of procurement best
practice.
• Contributed to savings targets by engaging with School Business
Managers.
• Escalated and resolved areas of concern as raised by schools.
• Ensured the CRM database is updated and ensuring managers
are aware of clients feedback.
• Liaised with Category Management team to deliver complex
contracting solutions, spend aggregation and collaborative
initiatives
• Supported the Procurement Director as a key point of contact for
the companys procurement strategy

• Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to adult students.
• Providing appropriate feedback on written and spoken tests.
• Facilitate learning and work on building students confidence.

• Be the key contact for the client and engage with their
Procurement team.
• Proactively advised each client on areas of procurement best
practice.
• Contributed to savings targets by engaging with School Business
Managers.
• Escalated and resolved areas of concern as raised by schools.
• Ensured the CRM database is updated and ensuring managers
are aware of clients feedback.
• Liaised with Category Management team to deliver complex
contracting solutions, spend aggregation and collaborative
initiatives
• Supported the Procurement Director as a key point of contact for
the companys procurement strategy.
• Delivered the programme of targeted procurement webinars and
attend exhibitions.