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Commercial Strategy for 2024-2029 - Appendix 1: Commercial Strategy Programme 2024-2025

Ref Theme Activity Lead officer Target completion date
CC1 Commercial Culture
  • Develop the staff engagement plan.
  • Develop a communications campaign plan.
  • Establish a campaign to generate new ideas and create a shortlist of new opportunities.
  • Investigate and develop the staff commercial training options and pricing.
CMB lead  - Commercial Implementation manager March 2025
CP1 Commercial Process
  • Perform comprehensive analysis of both discretionary and statutory services to identify opportunities for commercial growth, emphasising collaboration and competitive market exploitation.
  • The marketing-based approach will focus on identifying unique selling points and market positioning to inform pricing structures and promotional activities for the targeted services.
Head of Marketing, Service area lead, Commercial Implementation Manager March 2025
CProg 1 Commercial Programmes

Fees and charges, Traded services

  • Strengthen the customer-centric approaches to income generation through enhanced financial management, focusing on the profit and loss and full cost recovery of non-trading statutory services.
  • All services will review their fees and charges, traded services, annually in line with the Income commercial policy
Corporate Finance Director, Commercial Implementation Manager Annually
CProg 2 Commercial Programmes

Budget setting process

  • Senior officers and councillors to prioritise the council’s income-generating expertise, identifying the top potential areas currently delivered by the council. Market analysis is crucial for understanding where the greatest impact on income generation can be made.
  • Development of service area plans (Appendix D) will be a key driver in the budget setting process and contribute to the corporate budget plan.
Corporate Finance Director Annually