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Senior Commissioning Manager

2 months ago


Stanton House, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time
Our Benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

  • Flexible working
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package
  • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
  • A comprehensive pension scheme
  • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
  • Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
  • An employee recognition scheme
About the role

Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to lead the delivery of key commissioning priorities? 

Then we want to hear from you 

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Senior Commissioning Manager to join our Children’s Commissioning Service. We have an opportunity within Children in Care (CiC)  and this is a unique opportunity to be part of our high performing commissioning service. 

Can you rise to the challenge?

Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery; this brings exciting opportunities to work with us.  With a new Head of Service in Childrens Commissioning recently appointed, we will focus solely on services to the children & young people of Cambridgeshire; their families, and we have bold ambitions to achieve excellent standards.  If you have the passion for putting Cambridgeshire’s children, young people and families at the heart of everything you do and have the ambition to help shape the future, this could be the perfect next role for you. 

About you

You will have:

  • Significant experience in commissioning within children\'s services.
  • Strong leadership skills with a focus on team collaboration and motivation
  • A proven track record in managing service providers
  • Extensive experience in strategy / policy development and service improvement
  • Commercial acumen to ensure value for money in service delivery
  • Demonstrable understanding of best practices in commissioning and project delivery.
  • Knowledge of early intervention, prevention services, and support for children in Care, Children with disabilities / SEND
  • The ability to lead on commissioning services across various specialist areas.
  • Strong analytical and interpretative skills for effective service evaluation.
  • Well-developed communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Proficiency in negotiating and influencing, with a variety of strategies and tactics.
  • Strong self-management and supervisory skills.

You will be:

  • A strategic thinker with the ability to drive transformation and innovation

 

About us Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities. our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

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