Commercial Lead - Professional Services

These roles within our Professional Services category team is to provide first class commercial leadership, delivery and advice relating to professional services to Defence Digital across the contract lifecycle and to drive market engagement to leverage insight, innovation and best practice and play a role in the development of the government commercial profession. You will be responsible for embedding a ground-breaking 1.2bn, 4-year Digital & IT Professional Services (DIPS) framework to deliver substantial benefits to MOD, including improved delivery performance, savings of 120m as well as insights into MODs resource gaps to inform its Strategic Workforce Plan and making it a success. This is a significant undertaking which requires significant change to how MOD procures these services and requires more commercial resources, including experienced commercial leaders, to successfully deliver the change and benefits. As a member of the Professional Services leadership team this role will require someone with the ability to engage, motivate, inspire, lead, and develop a team (directly and indirectly), working with colleagues across the wider function (eg: the Crown Commercial Service) and other functions (Finance, Digital, Data & Analytical Services, Communications, Legal, Security and Internal Audit). The role will be responsible for the delivery of a number of service categories/Lots under the DIPS framework and for providing advice to other MOD commercial teams outside of Defence Digital in how to use the Framework effectively. This is critical to our ambition to drive greater consistency and performance in the sourcing of Defences Digital and ICT requirements.The successful candidates will each be responsible for managing a team of 4-6 practitioners who will deliver the majority of procurement and contract management activity, under the post holders guidance.The roles support hybrid working with a minimum of 60% of time at a designated base MOD location (Corsham, Wiltshire or Whitehall, London with at least one day at Corsham if London based) or work-related activity such as supplier visits, stakeholder visits, or external meetings/conferences. CIPS All successful candidates must be CIPS Level 6 accredited/hold MCIPS or must be willing to commence (or resume) CIPS studies within three months of taking up your post. ClearanceAll roles require SC before commencement of posts and may be required to be DV cleared once in post.LocationsThe 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.