Commercial Lead Solution Delivery

The Solution Delivery Digital Data and Technology Team provide commercial and procurement solutions for projects supporting digital transformation programmes across the Metropolitan Police. We support the planning, procurement and delivery of complex and major technology programmes to deliver the New Met for London strategy and fulfilling our pledge to Londoners: More Trust, Less Crime & High Standards. Our pipeline of programmes and projects provides unrivalled scope to develop your commercial career. This role is high profile, strategic and hands on, giving unrivalled opportunity to add value that makes a difference to London's communities, whether that's defining business need, creating commercial strategy, shaping the market, leading negotiations, or coaching your team., The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women. As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence. Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about

• Substantial experience and demonstrable evidence of leading end to end high value, complex and compliant technology procurements, ideally within a regulated or public sector environment.
• Substantial experience and applying this knowledge to identify, mitigate and manage commercial risk and issues across the commercial lifecycle. Evidence of driving value for money on delivering major complex projects, including the use of negotiation, pricing and evaluation models within a competitive tender procurement, to ensure a successful commercial outcome.
• Ability to prioritise and manage a demanding workload, demonstrating experience of managing ambiguity and evidence of delivering to deadlines using strong project management capabilities.
• Experience of working as a commercial business partner, influencing senior stakeholders and strategic suppliers, with or without authority projecting personal impact and credibility at all levels.
• Experience of inclusive leadership and building commercial capability by feedback, coaching, delegation and mentoring with sharing of expertise/knowledge.
Desirable Criteria
• Experience of working in Contract Management roles or across the commercial life cycle.
• CIPS qualification / IACCM certification (or working towards).
  
  In return the MPS can offer you a competitive salary, flexible working, staff benefits, with excellent career and professional development.
Application process
• If successful at the paper sift stage, candidates will be invited to the Government Commercial Function Assessment and Development Centre (ADC) where your skills and experience will be assessed against the Commercial People Standards for the Profession at Commercial Lead Level. The ADCs will be held January 2025. Depending on the outcome of the ADC, successful candidates will then be invited to a panel interview.
• Interview selection is based on the Government Commercial Function People Standards at Commercial Lead Level.
• Internal and external candidates who have secured an A at the ADC will be eligible for a permanent appointment.
• External candidates who have secured a B at the ADC are eligible for appointment on a 2-year fixed term contract, until such time they re-sit the ADC and secure an A, at which point they can be offered a permanent contract at the same level without further competition., If successful at the paper sift stage, successful candidates will then be invited to undertake the Government Commercial Function Assessment and Development Centre at Commercial Lead level.
Roles in Commercial Services are aligned with the levels of the , which sits within the . This role has been mapped to Commercial Lead level. Paper sift, is assessed against the essential and desirable criteria. The Assessment and Development Centre, and interview selection is undertaken against the for this level.