Head of Commercial

Head of Commercial - Corporate (Corporate and Professional Services)

Vacancy Reference Number

17423

Number of Vacancies 1

Commercial Services

Location Kilburn

Building KILBURN POLICE STATION

Band Band S

Part/Full Time Full Time

36 hours per week

Type of Contract Permanent

Job Advert

Job Title: Head of Commercial - Corporate (Corporate and Professional Services)

Salary: The starting salary is £86,485, which includes allowances totalling £2,841.

The salary is broken down as £83,644 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £92,192. Plus, a location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location : Kilburn

As the challenge of protecting London evolves so must the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Thanks to large-scale transformation, we are developing so we can make life safer for over 9 million Londoners. As Head of Commercial (Corporate), your professional expertise will contribute towards improving our policing activities, our capability to reduce crime, ensuring we deliver on our pledge to Londoners: More Trust, Less Crime & High Standards.

This is an exciting time to be working in MPS's Commercial Services, which supports the organisation to deliver solutions for the delivery of the Commissioner's vision for a New Met for London. Commercial Services is also responsible for delivering end-to-end commercial lifecycle management (supporting the wider business in working with third parties) across a spend portfolio of £1bn each year.

Commercial Services includes five category teams/pillars – Corporate & Professional Services; Covert and Counter Terrorism Policing; Digital, Data and Technology; Operational and Property – as well as an Enablement and Performance team. There is a unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London, which means that there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest police service.

The Team

The Corporate & Professional Services pillar is responsible for the end-to-end commercial activity across a range of categories which are essential, in all organisations (big or small), to ensure they can deliver on their core mission. We are a team of 15, managing a spend of c. £200m/per annum (£1.5bn/term) across a range of service contracts (as well as a small set of goods contracts). For this role, within Corporate - these include Business Outsourced Services, Occupational Health, and Media, as well as embryonic team responsible for protecting and generating income from the MPS brand. The other half of the team is responsible for Professional Services such as Consultancy, Resource Augmentation, Training and Legal.

The Role

Over the next 2 years you and your team will be responsible for taking to market several of our organisationally impactful strategic contracts, which will provide an exciting challenge and the opportunity to make your mark/leave a legacy. This high-profile role will allow you to liaise regularly with senior business stakeholders and Management Board level members, providing advice, guidance, assurance, and commercial solutions for complex organisational challenges.

We are looking for a commercial professional, with experience of managing complex, high value programmes and projects, developing category strategies, leading negotiations with suppliers and working with senior stakeholders across multiple business groups to solve commercial problems in a dynamic environment. With this background, you will bring experience delivering commercial solutions and managing commercial risks throughout the commercial lifecycle, in a challenging environment, managing stakeholder relationships at senior level, and balancing the delivery of high value, complex projects with values-based leadership through modelling behaviour, coaching, and mentoring.

In this role you will lead and manage your team (7 FTE) whilst being part of the wider Corporate and Professional Services team and part of our extended senior leaders' group.

In return, you will have the opportunity to make the role your own: increasing innovation, delivering social value to communities in London, lead category strategies, influencing commercial strategy, procurement, and execution. Your experience in developing commercial models that create best value will directly benefit front line policing in London. No two days are the same and you will gain invaluable commercial experience, helping to deliver commercial solutions in a complex environment.

The MPS can offer you a competitive salary, flexible working, and benefits, with excellent career and professional development.

Application Process

• Applications will be accepted until 23.55 on 17 June 2024.
• To apply you will need to provide a CV and a personal statement of suitability (no more than 3 pages - font size 11) which should demonstrate how you/your experience meet the role as well as the essential/desirable criteria.
• The hiring Commercial Director will be hosting an early evening briefing call on the 11 June 2024 at 5pm, should you wish to learn more about the role and this opportunity. To secure your place, please email Change& for an invitation.
• Applications will be sifted (based on the personal statement of suitability against the role/essential criteria) in the week commencing 24 June 2024. If successful at the 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 Associate Commercial Specialist Level. The ADCs will be held on 16 July 2024. Please note candidates cannot request an alternative date.
• Candidates will need to secure at least a B at ADC to be considered for an interview. Any candidate, who secures an A, is guaranteed to be offered an interview.
• Interviews will take place in the week commencing 22 July 2024 (likely 24-26 July).

Note: 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 having to re-apply.

How to apply

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met . Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 17th of June 2024.

Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training

• Experienced and knowledgeable in how supply markets work and how to mitigate their inherent risks.
• Experience and evidence of delivering complex commercial solutions.
• Demonstrable experience of leading complex or high value negotiations.
• Evidence of having delivered organisational value-added services including cashable and non-cashable benefits to customers.
• Experience working and effectively influencing (partnering) with senior stakeholders to deliver robust commercial outcomes to deliver the organisation's business need.
• Evidence of inspirational and inclusive leadership, developing a professional culture and building commercial capability (in your team as well as more broadly across your organisation).
• Demonstrable experience of leading/delivering first or next generation outsourced solutions.
• Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) Associate Commercial Specialist accreditation (see application process)

Required Languages English

Reports To Commercial Director - Corporate & Professional Services

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with 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 ethnic minority groups and females.

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 health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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