Head of Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy

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

- 390650

**Salary**:

- £80,000 - £97,760
- 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 - Department of Health and Social Care

**Type of role**:

- Commercial

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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**Benefits**:
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Location
- London SW1H 0EU, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading.
Occasional travel required between government offices to meet key internal stakeholders.

About the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

The Commercial Directorate is a strategic and enabling function that supports all DHSC’s commercial interactions with third parties and ministers in delivering their agenda. Our mission is to ensure that health and care policy is implemented at best value for the taxpayer.

We do this by leading and overseeing the department’s direct commercial activity, implementing commercial policies across DHSC and its arm's length bodies, and acting as advisors to the Secretary of State. Our vision is to provide a world-class commercial service to enable the health and care system to deliver for the public - we aim to be the best in government commercial for technical expertise and customer focus.

This is an exciting time to be part of the DHSC Commercial Directorate (CD) with an ever-growing need for policy and commercial professions to work closely to solve some of the most fascinating challenges in health and care. The Head of Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy post sits in the Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy Team (SI & CS) of the Commercial Strategy and Partnerships division which is part of the CD.

Within SI & CS we believe diversity of perspectives improves our service and decision making. The team consists of people from a wide range of backgrounds and professions, including, commercial/commissioning, policy and project delivery, health and social care.

**Job description**:
This is not a traditional commercial or procurement role. The post of Head of Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy is highly varied, requires strategic thinking, the ability to deal with ambiguity and build relationships quickly.

The role is to lead a multi-disciplinary team in their work to ensure commercial and market considerations are embedded in policy design. This role specifically leads the work on sector insights and commercial strategy for Secondary Care and Integration and Global Health.

The team offers an inward and outward facing service to senior DHSC policy officials, Ministers, and our ALBs. We provide long-term strategic commercial advice and support to major policy agendas with significant market forces in play. The department spends or influences billions of pounds through commissions and market policy, outside of core procurement and contracting. The team operates as a trusted partner with policy colleagues, taking commissions for fieldwork, industry consultation, market research, policy options appraisal and implementation design. Projects within the team are broad ranging and examples include social care reform, medicines pricing, life sciences collaborations, obesity interventions.

**Locations**

Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 60% attendance.

This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.

**Person specification**:

- Lead a team and give strategic direction.
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team that ensures commercial considerations are a key part of DHSC policy making and embedded into policy thinking from the earliest stages.
- Lead a team to develop deep sector knowledge and use that knowledge and experience to work with policy areas, using a collaborative approach to bring a business, financial and commercial perspective to policy design and delivery. Offering a valued service that is credible and valued by our colleagues and includes bespoke project work, deep dive reviews, make vs buy analysis, stakeholder engagement and consultation, commercial options appraisal, market assessments plus market and sector engagement.
- Prioritise resources to ensure your team can deliver projects