Commercial Business Partner

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

- 406008

**Salary**:

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

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7
- Commercial Lead

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- GCF - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

**Type of role**:

- Commercial

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- London SW1A 2AH, East Kilbride G75 8EA

Occasional travel to other FCDO Offices in the UK. Opportunities for international travel.

Relocation costs will not be reimbursed.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
This is an exciting and unique opportunity for a curiosity-driven, data-focused individual to join the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) as a Senior Manager in the Commercial Systems & Management Information (S&MI) team.

You will be reporting directly to the Head of S&MI who will support you with your portfolio of work as well as learning and development opportunities (from technical skills to commercial expertise). You will be responsible for ensuring that the systems, data and information related to spend meets the needs of the Commercial Directorate. You will work alongside the Senior Manager for Contracts, as well as the Senior Manager for Insights & Analysis to cover the entire commercial lifecycle; and will be responsible for line management of a Senior Analyst (Spend), as well as matrix management of another Senior Analyst (Lead Data Engineer).

This is a pivotal role, responsible for driving forward various initiatives, supporting the S&MI strategy to become the best-in-class commercial intelligence and systems function, underpinning the objectives of the FCDO Commercial directorate.

You will be working across the entire Commercial directorate (including overseas hubs and posts) to identify and implement improvements across the entire commercial lifecycle; using your excellent digital, stakeholder management, change management, and project management skills to create, develop, improve, and refresh how systems and tools are used by the FCDO Commercial directorate.

**About FCDO, and the Commercial Directorate**:
FCDO pursues our national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. This is a really exciting and challenging time to join our Commercial function as we look to expand our influence and contribution to deliver on policies to support our global development and diplomatic objectives.

Our Commercial Directorate Vision is _“Delivering better diplomatic and development outcomes through global commercial excellence”._ We provide end-to-end procurement and commercial solutions to deliver FCDO business, whether through development programmes, corporate and people services, or managing and improving our overseas estate, IT and security. We manage relationships with existing suppliers; look for new ways to engage with potential suppliers and we have a strong focus on agile working, learning and development to ensure we can raise capabilities as well as respond to emerging global challenges.

**Job description**:
The S&MI vision is to become the best-in-class commercial intelligence and systems function. Spend underpins this ambition, and you will be responsible for ensuring that the commercial function is able to readily access accurate, rich, meaningful intelligence; and that associated systems and processes truly enable commercial teams to carry out their role as effectively and efficiently as possible. This will involve working across a broad range of stakeholders (generalists and specialists), as well as systems, processes and working practices.

You will be responsible for line management of a senior analyst, as well as matrix management of specialist resource in order to achieve functional objectives. You will be responsible for liaising across the FCDO to enhance the commercial directorate’s ability to analyse spend, drive compliance with associated processes and systems (including the upcoming changes resultant of Procurement Act 2023), and identifying improvement opportunities. You will also manage the relationship between Commercial and various partners across the FCDO (such as Finance, Digital, Security), outside of FCDO (cross-government clusters, working groups), as well as vendors and external partners.

**Important Information for Applicants**

This is a **Reserved Post.**

Applicants already internal to FCDO who were employed prior to 30th September 2020 are exempt from reserved status.

**Person specification**:
The key responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

- Partnering with teams across Commercial, Digital, Security, and Finance to identify requirements and implement change. Working with digital and system partners to develop innovative solutions that enhance