Maritime Procurement Commercial Lead

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 within the Maritime Commercial Team.In this role, 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. 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.Supporting the Commercial Business Partner Border Force (BF) and Immigration Enforcement (IE), you will procure a range of commercial agreements for the Home Office to ensure that they deliver to requirements ensuring value for money and compliance with the Government Commercial Outsourcing Playbook.The Team delivers contractual arrangements to support the HO to deliver its primary objective of protecting our borders.You will need to have a full understanding and experience of using public procurement legislation and be familiar with Procurement Policies in Government.You will have delivered complex procurement activity.You will also ideally have 2 or more of the following skills, experience, or knowledge:Experience of working in the Maritime Sector/EnvironmentA Naval, defence/security, law enforcement or engineering backgroundKnowledge of the shipbuilding industryKnowledge of unique risks in this sectorAn understanding of Social Value in this contextLocations 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.