Pre-Award & Major Projects Commercial Leads

Joining a supportive and forward-thinking team, working on some of the highest value and complex procurements in the UK, you will lead by example, modelling sound commercial practice to team members, colleagues and wider stakeholders.
You will help design, create, implement and maintain category and sourcing strategies, bringing fresh perspectives and insights to the existing team.
You’ll have substantive procurement/commercial experience and demonstrable delivery of high value complex projects. You will apply this expert knowledge to deliver high quality, compliant and innovative commercial outcomes aligned to HMRC’s objectives that drive value for money across the procurement lifecycle.
You will be comfortable identifying, mitigating, and managing risk to protect and assure the delivery of complex projects and programmes, efficiently and effectively reducing the Department’s risk exposure., We would be particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate a track record in:
+ Digital procurements e.g. SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, and/or managed services and negotiation of contracts in a public sector environment;
+ Commercial business partnering to enable major change; and/or
+ Using lean, agile or continuous improvement techniques to deliver innovative commercial solutions.
Locations
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., + Develop customer relationships to help build a forecast of demand for commercial services and to work collaboratively with commercial colleagues to plan and execute the related commercial work in your sub-category
+ Develop procurement strategies, sourcing processes and in-life management which support the delivery of HMRC and Cabinet Office objectives
+ Use specialist knowledge to support the development of innovative strategies and optimum routes to market to deliver the required commercial outcomes and improved value
+ Identify and successfully mitigate commercial risk in procurement Strategies
+ Ensure all activities are carried out in a compliant manner, and systems are updated and used correctly (e.g. Ariba e-Sourcing platform)
+ Provide support to the operational contract/supplier management teams., If you are invited to attend a virtual ADC, but for any reason are unable to meet the date outlined then please get in touch with the team at commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible.
The ADC is booked and paid for in advance by departments, therefore it is only in certain circumstances we are able to accommodate alternative dates.
Details of schemes available are attached in the advert.
For full details of our process, and a likely timeline, please read the explanation provided in the attached candidate pack.
Throughout our selection process, we will make decisions about your capability to do the job, based on evidence you provide against the essential criteria for the role which are detailed in the attached Candidate Pack.
Your application will be reviewed by a panel and should you be successful at sift we will invite you to attend a Virtual commercial Assessment and Development Centre (VADC). The panel will review results of the VADC and determine which candidates will go through to a subsequent final panel interview.
IMPORTANT: If you do not receive an acknowledgement of your application within 2 working days please contact: commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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+ Risk Mindset - Ability to analyse commercial risks & understand margins of error in developing recommendations for Customers and/or key stakeholders. Articulating key risks when presenting recommendations for Customers and/or key stakeholders
+ Manages Complexity – Experience of having had a leading role in complex commercial activities, with demonstrable experience across the commercial lifecycle
+ Resilient – The ability to challenge senior stakeholder decisions, work under pressure, and deliver multiple projects within agreed timescales
+ Builds Relationships – Experience of influencing stakeholders, providing clear technical issues in a coherent way to help them arrive at decisions through pro-active and sound advice
+ Understanding Sourcing Needs - Takes a view across the commercial lifecycle to create strategies that maximise the return on investment, improve costs and delivery, by developing commercial relationships to achieve stakeholder objectives.
+ Procurement Process - Experience in the development of strategies for high value/risk, critical/complex procurements and playing a leading role in the implementation and end to end delivery of these., This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

Please be advised that the Virtual ADC is taking place on 14th October 2024 and will require a full day's attendance.

As a valued employee of the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), you will have access to all the benefits the centre has to offer; including flexible working, generous benefits, Career Coaches, Mentors, L&D, a Commercial College, active talent management and, most importantly, access to commercial projects that will far exceed the scale and complexity on offer elsewhere in the UK.