Commercial Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 381811**Salary**:

- £72,000 - £79,200- GCO Pension, GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay available on accreditation.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Commercial Lead**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- GCF - Home Office**Type of role**:

- Commercial**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 17Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London (Croydon) and ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Home Office has one of the most challenging and critical jobs in Whitehall: to keep Britain safe and secure. We operate at the heart of the Government's agenda, leading on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counterterrorism and work to ensure visible, responsive, and accountable policing in the UK. The challenges the Department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate, making this one of the most exciting and stimulating Government Departments in which to work.

The Commercial Directorate manages the conduit between the Home Office and those supplier markets that help us provide key services to the public. It provides strategic commercial services such as market intelligence, procurement and contract management activities and its principal aims are to deliver efficiency savings, support the strategic agendas of our client groups by procuring the right products and services in a timely manner and dynamically managing contracts and suppliers, whilst delivering activities in a transparent and compliant manner.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Home Office Commercial with roles across Missions, Migration and Borders Professional Services, Digital Data and Technology, Grants, and the new Estates teams.

**Job description**:
In these roles, you will be a true leader, driving development, innovation and creating a cohesive, positive mind-set to deliver great commercial outcomes with real accountability and collaboration with business and project teams. Your key focus will be planning and executing the Category Strategies for goods and services compliant with regulations and governance in support of business strategies.

All roles will involve the opportunity to lead individuals or a small team of other commercial professionals. You will develop and maintain positive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders and encourage collaborative relationships as appropriate. Your professional expertise and judgement will be relied upon and valued by senior colleagues.

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**Person specification**:
**Procurement**:

- Work with business stakeholders and engage the market to refine requirements and procure critical goods and services which support Home Office priorities, playing a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
- Create, maintain, and deliver Category Strategies and Procurement Strategies working collaboratively with Commercial teams and stakeholders developing a deep understanding of all supply markets, category, and business context.
- Lead and support your team, function, and customers to implement the commercial change program, paying attention to the evolving future pipeline, ensuring it is regularly refreshed and agreed with business teams.

**Contract Management**:

- Work with the business to manage Contracts and Supplier Relationships.
- Create, maintain, and deliver Contract Management Plans working collaboratively with Commercial teams and stakeholders.
- Lead or support teams in the implementation and embedding of robust Contract Management, aligned to the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO) “Contract Management Guide,” with initial focus on those designated critical contracts.
- Deliver Home Office Contract Management processes, procedures, and training, in line with the GCO Standards.
- Act as an assessor of business-critical contracts to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and maximize value.
- Analysis and resolution of contractual issues, negotiation, and exercising judgement to making effective decisions.

**Leadership**:

- Develop strong strategic relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to maximize opportunities to collaborate, achieve efficiencies, improve capability, and promote the procurement profession.
- Lead or support the development or create opportunities to improve commercial leverage and drive best practice across all areas of Home Office.
- Provide consistent and clear commercial advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders and be a key point of contact to the department.
- Ensure the Department is compliant with all relevant Government, EU and Departmental policies, regulations, and legislation.
- Develop a commercially focused culture within the team and work to develop r