Associate Commercial Practitioner


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£30,485 to £30,485 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Swansea
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	25 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Can you support commercial activity and build strong working relationships across a large organisation?

Have you worked within policy, governance, or commercial frameworks to ensure compliance and deliver quality outcomes?

Are you organised, adaptable, and keen to develop your commercial expertise while supporting wider business priorities?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The Commercial Directorate supports the Agency in delivering value for money and achieving its strategic objectives. As an Associate Commercial Practitioner, you will support commercial activity across the organisation, ensuring compliance with legislation, policy, and best practice. Working with a variety of stakeholders, you'll contribute to commercial delivery while supporting wider corporate and Agency priorities.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at: DVLA – Home , Civil Service Careers

As an Associate Commercial Practitioner, you will play an important role in supporting commercial projects and procurement activity across the Agency. Working closely with a range of stakeholders, you'll help deliver effective commercial solutions, contribute to business objectives, and gain valuable experience within a professional and collaborative environment. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your commercial skills while making a meaningful contribution to public service delivery.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

To proactively engage with business areas to ensure that the contract management activity is undertaken in line with Best Practice.
To proactively work with all stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of sourcing activity.
To ensure compliance with the Agency’s commercial obligations as a Public Body.
To identify and escalate commercial risk for all contracts within scope of the category.
To maintain and update relevant systems with accurate contract management information pertinent to the successful management and delivery of the category portfolio.
Oversees creation of commercial files and audit/assurance activities.
Develop an awareness of own and staff’s strengths, skill gaps and career aspirations and understands how to build capability.
To undertake corporate managerial responsibilities commensurate with the grade e.g. recruitment, grievance, and disciplinary cases.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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