Commercial Standards and Continuous Improvement

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

- 258105**Salary**:

- £72,500 - £94,000- GCO Pension, GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay available on accreditation.**Job grade**:

- Grade 6- Associate Commercial Specialist**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Commercial**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- London, Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich, Glasgow and York with travel to various locations.About the job

**Job summary**:
**Job description**:
This role is instrumental in supporting public sector contracting authorities to assess themselves against common commercial standards using the commercial continuous improvement assessment framework (CCIAF). Drive consistency in the planning and management of buying goods, works and services, ensuring contracts and relationships with suppliers realise value for money and result in delivery of high-quality public services.

You will be a senior member of the commercial profession and part of the leadership team for the Strategy, Communications, Standards and Oversight pillar of the Strategy, Assurance and Standards Team. You will also have direct and matrix management responsibilities.

**Person specification**:

- Lead the development and management of senior Departmental and Wider Public Sector relationships to set, promote and assure the GCF commercial standards and assessment framework;
- Take a lead role in the team (and with others) to provide scrutiny, recommendations and oversight to the implementation and compliance to commercial standards and improvement plans;
- Responsibility for the co-ordination of central government changes and policy reforms;
- Responsibility for building collaborative relationships and account management with Government Departments and Wider Public Sector Contracting Authorities;
- Contribute to the development of effective tools and organisational continuous improvement techniques to provide assistance to Departments and the Wider Public Sector in assessing, baselining and continuously improving their commercial capability;
- Have a risk and opportunities mindset, providing timely advice to officials and Ministers on both programmes/projects and wider Departmental delivery to Commercial Operating Standards - overseeing the development of, assessing and interpreting commercial pipelines of activity;
- Work across the Strategy, Communications, Standards and Oversight team (and GCF) to assist the Deputy Director and Director to achieve business plan objectives for the function and to disseminate good practice in the team and across Government in order to improve overall commercial capability;
- Lead and coach departments within your portfolio on continuous improvement activities and support their improvement plan delivery;
- Grow and evolve the team’s approach to commercial excellence, including supporting and the continuous improvement of the Commercial Standards, the Assessment Framework, Improvement Plans and other outputs related to commercial assurance and commercial continuous improvement;
- Line (and/or matrix) management of commercial staff performance and development (as required) - in the context of portfolio management and delivery;
- You will play a key role in coaching and developing other staff within the team and wider function.

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- **Commercial Focus** - Experience of working at a strategic level in organisations to advise, assess or deliver strategic commercial activity across the commercial lifecycle.
- **Risk Mindset** - A strong analytical thinker, able to advise and brief with impact and at pace and through verbal and reported (documents, reports, briefings) channels on issues of delivery, risk organisational capability.
- **Decisive** - Has experience of leading, planning, managing reviews of commercial activity or organisational delivery.
- **Resilient** - Ability to work efficiently in a high-pressure environment and deliver to strict deadlines and targets whilst working in fast-moving project and/or programme environments.
- **Builds Relationships** - Develops strong stakeholder and business relationships centred around collaboration, service, organisational or delivery improvement.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who