Contract Management and Commercial Capability Lead

This is an opportunity to work in the People, Capability & Communications team in Commercial Operations to drive the Home Office Contract Management and Commercial Capability agenda. World Commerce & Contracting (Previously IACCM) estimates that, on average, a contract leaks 9% of its value over its lifetime. For the Home Office Gold and Silver contracts thats a potential loss of 1.6bn over their lifetime. For this reason, increasing commercial awareness and contract management capability across the Home Office is a priority across Government, in Commercial Directorates 2-Year Business Plan, and as part of our longer-term transformation plans for Home Office. Investing in the capability and career development of Commercial Directorate colleagues is also a key priority for this role. You will provide commercial professionals with a range of development opportunities that enable them to succeed in their roles and develop their careers. This will include ensuring Commercial Directorate embeds knowledge and skills to successfully implement the new Procurement Act by the end of October; whilst ensuring that colleagues have the skills and capabilities to adapt to new ways of working that will be implemented as part of our commercial transformation programme. You will focus on developing both commercial technical skills and wider civil service capabilities as part of this role. The role will be responsible for: Driving the ongoing roll out of the Contract Management Capability Programme to Contract Managers and SROs across the Home Office, with the objective of building commercial capability and awareness.Supporting the development of Commercial Capability and broader skills development across the HO Commercial Directorate.Leading activities that develop the Commercial Profession alongside other functional Professions across the Home Office. Supporting the Chief Commercial Officer to carry out their Head of Profession responsibilities.The successful post holder will need excellent stakeholder engagement and presentation skills, required to work with contacts across the Home Office, cross-government capability leads, liaison with the Cabinet Office and. Good project management, data, and reporting skills are required, along with excellent organisational skills. A good understanding of the commercial life cycle is essential to ensure the commercial development opportunities are appropriate for commercial professionals.LocationsGCO is based in London.Assignment Location: Croydon, Manchester. Occasional travel to other office locations will be required as we are a geographically diverse organisation.Relocation costs will not be reimbursedThe 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.