24946 - Commercial Manager

£33,586 - £44,435
1
12 Months
Yorkshire and the Humber
Leeds
5 WELLINGTON PLACE LEEDS, LS1 4AP
SEO
Bb
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Commercial, Procurement and Contracts Management

About the Role

We’re looking to recruit an experienced Commercial Manager to join our team in Leeds!

The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. Responsible for courts, prisons and probation services, we work to ensure sentences are served and offenders are given rehabilitation opportunities to become law-abiding citizens.

The Commercial and Contract Management Directorate manages over 1000 active contracts and spends £3.5bn a year and is crucial to the successful delivery of prison and court reform programmes. It provides procurement and contract management activities across a wide range of categories, ensuring value for money agreements are in place for wider MoJ staff to source goods and services from.

This team is responsible for the commercial management of the Ministry’s interpretation and translation contracts. These contracts provide for interpreters (face-to-face, telephone, video remote, non-spoken and written translation) as well as quality assurance services. These services ensure access to justice for people who need language support to participate in court proceedings or communicate with other agencies within the Ministry, including the Legal Aid Agency, National Probation Service and others.

As a Commercial Manager you will be responsible for one or more of these high-profile and critical ‘Gold’ contracts, proactively managing the contract in collaboration with the Ministry’s operational contract management teams. This will involve building market knowledge to identify opportunities for savings and innovation, managing commercial risk and exposure and increasing value for money. Working within a fast-paced environment, you will bring excellent communication and organisational skills to ensure contracts are working effectively to meet business needs and stakeholder relationships are managed appropriately

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading pre-procurement and sourcing activity including requirements definition, strategy development, market engagement and producing the invitation to tender pack.
  • Strategy development at contract level, using business acumen and market insight to drive commercial opportunities to deliver continuous improvement, value for money and/or savings
  • Embedding Cabinet Office’s Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) approach at contract level
  • Analysing market, spend and performance data and presenting this to support commercial activity and reporting requirements
  • Leading on collaborative commercial opportunities, working with other government departments both in our region and nationally
  • Leading conflict and issue resolution with suppliers and stakeholders, seeking support from the Senior Commercial Manager where appropriate
  • Line managing a team of 1-3 people

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • A proven track-record working in a similar commercial environment in either a category, sourcing, contract or supplier relationship management role
  • Ownership of tasks/projects from initial stages through to completion
  • Awareness of public sector procurement legislation

Desirable

  • Application of public sector procurement legislation in a central government setting
  • Working knowledge of Procurement Systems, e.g. Oracle and/or Bravo
  • Experience in monitoring supplier financial health, making use of mechanisms such as open-book contract management

Qualifications

Essential

  • MCIPS or IACCM qualification or relevant industry experience and a willingness to work towards gaining qualification

Behaviours

The Civil Service Competency Framework sets out standard skills, knowledge and behaviours that all civil servants are expected to meet. You will be required to provide evidence of the following competencies at level 3:

Leading and Communicating

  • Communicates with confidence in both written and verbal forms with a straightforward, honest and engaging manner

Collaborating and Partnering

  • Builds productive relationships with key stakeholders and deals with conflict in a calm and constructive manner

Making Effective Decisions

  • Understands the scope of their own authority, invites challenge to produce robust recommendations and is decisive in making evidence based decisions

Delivering at Pace

  • Ability to organise own, and monitor team’s, workload effectively and adapt to changing priorities to ensure work is on track

Seeing the Bigger Picture

  • Uses market intelligence and understanding of organisational direction to develop category strategy

Achieving Commercial Outcomes

  • Identifies, and works with delivery partners to deliver, alternative ways of working, gathering evidence to ensure that more efficient outcomes can be delivered balancing cost and quality

A sift of applications may be conducted on the lead competency, Achieving Commercial Outcomes.


Working Arrangements & Further Information


Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.


Flexible working hours


The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices.


Benefits


The MoJ offers a range of benefits:


Annual Leave


Generous allowances for paid holiday starting at 25 days per year, and rising as your service increases. There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.


Pension


The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.


Training


The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.


Support


  • A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
  • Access to flexible benefits such as salary sacrifice arrangements for childcare vouchers, and voluntary benefits such as retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
  • Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
  • Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

Networks


The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.


Working for the Civil Service


The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.


We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.


The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.


There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.


Eligibility


Staff on fixed term appointments must have been recruited through fair and open competition.


Expected Sift: Week commencing 25th March
1st Stage Telephone Interview (20 mins): Expected week commencing 1st April.
2nd Stage Interview (45 mins - 1 hour, including a short exercise and presentation, details of which will be provided on interview offer: Expected week commencing 8th April.

22/03/2019, 23:55 hours.

Closing Date: 22nd March 2019 at 23:55 hours

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@sscl.gse.gov.uk Please quote the job reference.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, please email: harry.fawbert@justice.gov.uk.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Candidate Information

You may be required to provide statements describing your skills and experience relevant to each of the selection criteria. We recommend that you structure any examples as Situation, Task, Action and Result. For more information about the recruitment process and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

In the event of a large number of applications, we reserve the right to undertake the following processes:


  • An automated online test where a benchmark must be passed to progress;
  • A sift on the lead selection criteria. If this happens, the lead criteria will be the first one listed in the advert.

During the selection process, you may be asked to undertake an additional assessment (such as written test). If this is applicable you will be notified of this when you are invited to interview.



if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance
Achieving Commercial Outcomes
Leading and Communicating
Collaborating and Partnering
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace
Seeing the Big Picture
MCIPS or IACCM qualification or relevant industry experience and a willingness to work towards gaining a qualification.

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

· UK nationals

· nationals of the Republic of Ireland

· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.