Commercial Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Commercial Manager, you are likely to manage a small team and lead on a range of commercial activities. This is a dynamic and challenging environment, and you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with other members of the team and across the organisation.

Your role may support any of the following Commercial areas:

• Commercial Allocation & Triage: Overseeing the Sourcing & Delivery pipeline, evaluating new-front-door requests in order to prioritise, assess and allocate work to Sourcing & Delivery teams
• Commercial Sourcing: From pre-procurement to contract management, sourcing works across the end-to-end commercial lifecycle to deliver efficient, effective procurements or programmes. Provides crucial input across the commercial lifecycle, supplementing their commercial delivery responsibility through market analysis and engagement efforts, inputting into Sourcing Strategies and implementing procurement initiatives across Sourcing & Delivery to achieve cost efficiencies.
• Commercial Marketplace & Catalogue Management: As Commercial owners of UKHSAs Marketplace platform, the Marketplace & Catalogue Management team enables UKHSA Directorates to be self-sufficient in buying goods and services through continually updating and managing crucial self-serve channels and supporting guidance or relevant information.
• Major Commercial Programmes: Aligned to strategic programmes, Commercial Partners own and guide a portfolio of transformative change, in collaboration with project and procurement teams to shape, informing and assuring the delivery of programme business cases.
• Contract Management: Designated resource responsible for delivering efficient, effective contract management services aligned to policy and best practice.

Your role may include but may not be limited to:

• Leading a small team
• Delivering commercial solutions, being accountable for ensuring delivery to time and budget, in line with best practice
• Developing sourcing, contract management and category strategies
• Providing commercial advice to senior stakeholders as a business partnering function
• Managing competition exercises using the e-tendering portal (Atamis), including mini competitions, open competitions and if necessary direct awards or single tenders
• Leading on elements of contract and supplier management, using e-solutions to record contracts and manage contract changes
• Driving continuous improvement across categories and supplier contracts
• Comprehensive drafting of commercial documents, including tenders, contracts and contract change notes. Working closely with finance and legal partners where necessary
• Analysis of markets, suppliers and conducting due diligence, working with subject matter experts where necessary
• Leading on drafting business case documentation with commercial content, ensuring compliance with necessary approvals, working closely with stakeholders
• Development and reporting of Key Performance Indicators on progress status, issues and risks
• Publishing notices and opportunities in line with expected timescales, including redacted contracts
• Leading on the full compliance of data and data entry to ensure reporting is robust and accurate
• Ensuring all commercial activity is compliant with legislative obligation, UKHSA Standing Financial Instructions and Government best practice

In UKHSA Commercial we operate a hybrid working policy and have colleagues based all across the UK (offices located in Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Leeds), meaning you will have exposure to a range of experiences and a variety of work as you develop your commercial career.

Essential Criteria:

• Knowledge of public sector procurement legislation and commercial principles
• Experience working in procurement or contract management, delivering complex commercial solutions
• Experience of procuring goods and services
• Experience of working in a fast paced and ever-changing environment with conflicting priorities, delivering to deadlines and maintaining a high level of accuracy
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience of working with senior stakeholders

Selection Process Details

Stage 1- Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:

• an Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• a 750 word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how you consider your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application Form and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately, and you must pass both to move forward to interview.

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria
• Meets no essential criteria

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on: Knowledge of public sector procurement legislation and commercial principles.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates (see attached job description).

Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment

Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2- Interview

You will be invited to a single remote interview

Behaviours and technical experience will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating & Influencing
• Making effective decisions
• Developing Self and Others

Interviews dates to be confirmed.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Selection Process

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Eligibility Criteria

External:Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Person Specification

Application Form

Essential

• Application Form

Statement of Suitability

Essential

• Statement of Suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Managing a Quality Service (Lead Behaviour)
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Developing Self and Others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQs

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)