Commercial Manager

at  Home Office

JOB SUMMARY

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
This role is part of the Professional Services team which supports the whole of the Home Office to secure external resources and services such as Contingent Labour and the consultancy services which partner with our teams to deliver key activities and programmes. Professional Service is a fast paced and high-profile category of spend which comes under regular scrutiny from senior officials, Ministers and external bodies.
These roles could be of interest to individuals who have worked in a commercial environment and are looking to broaden their commercial skills in a central commercial function, those with strong transferrable skills or to existing commercial staff who would enjoy taking on a new role.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a hard-working individual to work at SEO level to support the delivery of the Professional Service team, which is undergoing a significant change programme, including the introduction of new automated ways of working, a move to a category management approach and establishing a new post-award assurance function. This is an exciting time to join a team which is on a continuous improvement journey.
Successful candidates will receive a programme of development with the opportunity to study towards professional commercial qualifications.

The successful candidates will be required to lead on some of the following:

• Work with business colleagues and external suppliers to set the new post-award assurance approach for managed services and consultancy. Assuring contract delivery of milestones, with funds released as appropriate.
• Provide professional services commercial guidance to peers and senior colleagues that draws on relevant procurement legislation, policy, information, supply market knowledge and commercial experience, while understanding business need. Maintain awareness of developments in procurement policy and commercial case law.
• Ensure a full audit trail for each managed service and consultancy review, embracing the continuous improvement programme including adapting to new ways of working such as automation and category management.
• Identify commercial risks, ensuring understanding, recording, and managing through all stages of the procurement, and ongoing risks transfer seamlessly into contract management.
• Identify savings, ensuring understanding, recording, and managing through all stages of the procurement and contract management.
• Gather lessons learned from the assurance process and ensure these are documented to inform future projects and influence improvements in commercial processes, systems and skills.
• Line management responsibilities.

SELECTION PROCESS DETAILS

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

• Application – by 3rd November 2024.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

• Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words).
• Evidence of the Behaviour Managing a Quality Service (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour)

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
2. Sift – week commencing 4th November 2024.
The sift will be held on the Personal Statement and Behaviour Managing a Quality Service.
The Personal Statement will be scored for all candidates. Those candidates who achieve the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will progress to a further sift where the Behaviour Managing a Quality Service will be scored. These candidates will receive sift scores for both elements. Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the Personal Statement will not have their Behaviour scored and will only receive a sift score for the Personal Statement.
3. Interview – week commencing 25th November 2024.

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be:

• Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) and Strength based questions.

The interview will take place on Teams.
For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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