Commercial Lead
- Civil Service
- Part Time
- London
- 74,340 - 81,774
Job Description
Job summary
Welcome to the Home Office Commercial Directorate and thank you for your interest in the roles we are offering.
I joined the Home Office in 2016 to lead the Collaborative Law Enforcement Programme, delivering 320m in cashable savings and transforming how policing approaches commercial activity. Before that, I served as Commercial Director at the Metropolitan Police Service, where I repositioned the department as a strategic function through commercial insight and ambitionensuring operational policing had the tools to serve stakeholders while achieving best value for the public purse.
The Home Office works to keep citizens safe and the country secure. We reduce crime, enforce the law, protect borders, and safeguard the most vulnerable, while shaping public policy at the highest level. Our commercial teams have played a critical role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthening border and societal protections.
Each year, the Home Office spends around 3bn with third-party suppliers, managed by our Commercial Directoratea team of approximately 300 procurement and contract management professionals. We source a wide range of goods and services, including complex programmes unique in Europe, supported by multi-million-pound contracts.
Joining us means making a tangible impact on the UKs future. You will work across diverse missions, from Borders and Migration to Public Safety, Homeland Security, the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme, and Digital, Data & Technology.
We are midway through a transformation programme and are recruiting across all grades. We now seek enthusiastic individuals to help deliver our objectives; you are our leaders and managers who will strengthen our reputation as a strategic partner, improve business outcomes, and deliver value for money through the contracts we source.
Whatever your backgroundpublic or privateif you are passionate about delivering first-class outcomes, we invite you to join our journey.
Job description
The Home Office has one of the most challenging and critical jobs in Whitehall: to keep Britain safe and secure. We operate at the heart of the Government's agenda, leading on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counterterrorism and work to ensure visible, responsive, and accountable policing in the UK. The challenges the Department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate, making this one of the most exciting and stimulating Government Departments in which to work.
The Commercial Directorate manages the conduit between the Home Office and those supplier markets that help us provide key services to the public. It provides strategic commercial services such as market intelligence, procurement and contract management activities and its principal aims are to deliver efficiency savings, support the strategic agendas of our client groups by procuring the right products and services in a timely manner and dynamically managing contracts and suppliers, whilst delivering activities in a transparent and compliant manner.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Home Office Commercial Directorate with roles within Missions: across Homeland Security Group and Public Safety Group.
Role Summary:
In these roles, you will be a true leader, driving development, innovation and creating a cohesive, positive mind-set to deliver great commercial outcomes with real accountability and collaboration with business and project teams. Your key focus will be planning and executing the Category Strategies for goods and services compliant with regulations and governance in support of business strategies.
The successful candidates can expect themselves to be working across a varied portfolio leading procurement and strategy development and be involved working as part of a wider commercial team leading procurement activity to deliver the business objectives.
All roles will involve the opportunity to lead individuals or a small team of other commercial professionals. You will develop and maintain positive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and encourage collaborative relationships as appropriate. Your professional expertise and judgement will be relied upon and valued by senior colleagues.
Locations:
The successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. When selecting your location listed in this job advert please be aware that this will be your contractual base location with a requirement to spend a minimum of 60% of your working time in this organisational workplace.
Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 60% attendance.
This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.
Person specification
Procurement:
- Work with business stakeholders and engage the market to refine requirements and procure critical goods and services which support Home Office priorities, playing a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
- Create, maintain, and deliver Category Strategies and Procurement Strategies working collaboratively with Commercial teams and stakeholders developing a deep understanding of all supply markets, category, and business context.
- Lead and support your team, function, and customers to implement the commercial change program, paying attention to the evolving future pipeline, ensuring it is regularly refreshed and agreed with business teams.
Contract Management:
- Work with the business to manage Contracts and Supplier Relationships.
- Create, maintain, and deliver Contract Management Plans working collaboratively with Commercial teams and stakeholders.
- Lead or support teams in the implementation and embedding of robust Contract Management, aligned to the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) Contract Management Guide, with initial focus on those designated critical contracts.
- Deliver Home Office Contract Management processes, procedures, and training, in line with the GCO Standards.
- Act as an assessor of business-critical contracts to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and maximize value.
- Analysis and resolution of contractual issues, negotiation, and exercising judgement to make effective decisions.
Leadership:
- Develop strong strategic relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to maximize opportunities to collaborate, achieve efficiencies, improve capability, and promote the procurement profession.
- Lead or support the development or create opportunities to improve commercial leverage and drive best practice across all areas of Home Office.
- Provide consistent and clear commercial advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders and be a key point of contact with the department.
- Ensure the Department is compliant with all relevant Government, EU and Departmental policies, regulations, and legislation.
- Develop a commercially focused culture within the team and work to develop relationships with key stakeholders to improve commercial understanding across the business.
- Proactively support the professional development of all team members, taking responsibility for the ongoing performance and development of self and staff, plus the team's performance.
- Provide leadership direction, standards, and advice to the wider Commercial department, contributing to the culture of meeting the highest commercial standards and continuous learning and improvement.
