Senior Commissioning Manager

**Salary: £50,826 - £56,100**
**Contract: Permanent**

**Hours: Full Time**
**Location: Hybrid Working**
**Leave Entitlement: 29 Days**

**About the Role**

As a Senior Commissioning Manager in Adult Social Care Strategy, Partnerships and Transformation, the role delivers a high level strategic focus on the whole life of the commissioning cycle, driving the development of services, contracts, analysis and delivery to respond to the ASC strategy. It champions strategic commissioning and service improvement programmes and oversees assurance and policy development and service evaluation, driving value for money and innovation in commissioning.

This role aligns with the Market Management Team to drive effective delivery of strategic relationship and reputation management, commissioning strategy and market development.

Key activities of this role include:

- Support the Head of Service to develop the ASC approach to commissioning and transformation
- Maintain the commissioning roadmap and ensure alignment to the corporate goals
- Responsible for managing the interface between commissioning strategy objectives and market response to need
- Act as a strategic leader across the portfolio, driving the development of services, contracts, analysis and delivery to respond to the ASC strategy
- Develop effective working relationships with the Market Management team to drive delivery of commissioning strategy and market development

**About Us**

The Council is focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for its communities. To do this the Council needs managers who thrive in a networked organisation and who can provide strong operational leadership.

The Strategy and Transformation lead role sits immediately beneath the Head of Service. It is responsible for the establishment and management of the Strategy & Transformation Team.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will:

- Have strong leadership skills, modelling a performance culture and constructively building achievement, confidence and skills in others
- Question and challenge conventional thinking, with a continual eye on the bigger picture in terms of the corporate context and external environment
- Role model agility and adaptability in mindset and ways of working
- Work successfully with key stakeholders including Members, residents, businesses, communities, partner organisations and other public services
- Demonstrate commitment to own personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the role
- Demonstrate a high level of innovation and creativity.
- Experience of managing complex strategic and transformation projects with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement
- Knowledge and understanding of key aspects of the Commissioning Cycle
- Expert knowledge of effective service development, redesign and improvement methodologies
- Expert knowledge of commissioning, client groups and care markets
- Demonstrate excellence in partnership working with a wide range of stakeholders, multi-disciplinary teams, agencies and providers
- Understanding and awareness of key legislation for Public Sector social care, including health, housing and social care

**Our Offer To You**

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff supported by our IT infrastructure, Google Chromebooks and Google Apps, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative and streamlined working. The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to be even more flexible in how we work and manage staff workloads, ensuring they have the correct equipment and resources to be able to maximise their talents and looking after their wellbeing.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

- Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Three volunteering days per year
- Flexible and agile working arrangements
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership