C2/SEO Contract Management and Procurement Commercial Business Partner
| Posting date: | 20 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,880 to £50,079 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £41,880 to £47,822 (National) - £43,856 to £50,079 (London - available only for Internal candidates). This role also attracts a Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £5,150 per annum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 345637/4 |
Summary
Do you want more scope in your role, more ownership, accountability and visibility?
Do you enjoy working with IT contracts and suppliers?
If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you!
About the agency
Part of the Department for Business and Trade, we are a government agency that helps to deliver economic confidence by supporting those in financial distress, tackling financial wrongdoing and maximising returns to creditors. We maintain the standards that help make Britain one of the best places in the world to do business.
The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
About the Directorate
The Finance, Commercial, Sustainability & Property Directorate is responsible for managing both the Insolvency Service’s finances and for all commercial related activities. We are a close-knit directorate, committed to supporting the agency’s operational business and objectives as well as its estates, sustainability and health & safety remit.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career.
The Commercial Team provide procurement, contract and supply chain management for the Agency. We are a small team of dedicated and highly skilled commercial professionals, performing at an exceptionally high level and based nationally across the Insolvency estate. The team operates on a flexible working basis, with a hybrid of remote and office-based working. The Commercial Team is embedded within the Government Commercial Function applying the Government Commercial Operating Standards, working in accordance with the People Standards for the Commercial profession and undertaking the Commercial Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework.
The Commercial team at INSS is currently expanding to meet the exciting challenges across the Sourcing Pipeline, Contract Management landscape, Transforming Public Procurement and to drive best practice against the Commercial Functional Standards. As a result, we’re currently recruiting multiple C2 (SEO) Commercial roles. Any candidate who passes the interview but is unsuccessful in being offered this role, may be considered via the Reserve List for one of the other Commercial roles.
We operate a Category Management approach within our Commercial Team, consisting of 4 Category Teams; Digital & Data category, Technology & Change category, Corporate Services & Operations category and Commercial Governance & Policy category.
Within the Commercial Team at the Insolvency Service, we believe there are huge benefits to working within a small Agency. Our Procurement and Contracts Managers (Commercial Business Partners) have the opportunity to lead/work on complex and strategic commercial matters, allowing them to develop and demonstrate their ability across a broad range of contracts, with greater ownership, responsibility and visibility than can be found in other Government commercial roles. The success of our leadership approach and commercial model is borne out by the fact that our leavers almost always leave on promotion!
If you’re interested in applying for this role, we’ll be running a meet and greet session so you can get to know more about the role, the Team, the Insolvency Service and to ask any questions you have. We’re keen to meet you and share as much as possible about this fantastic opportunity. We’re planning on hosting this session on Monday 25th March 2024 via Microsoft Teams at 11am. If you’d like to attend this session, please let us know by emailing Commercial@insolvency.gov.uk and we’ll invite you along. We look forward to meeting you.
Roles and Responsibilities
This role sits within the Commercial Technology and Change category. The team is responsible for technology procurement and contract management across all agency-wide IT products and services and pre-dominantly outsourced third party provisioned services/tools which are key enablers of the agency’s business. These include, for example, End User Compute services, Cloud Hosting (MS Azure), Services Integration and Management (SIAM), Network services, Unified Comms., Cyber Security, procurement of essential hardware and range of Microsoft and other software products. All of these along with Core Technology management service and more contribute to the wider agency IT eco-system that supports business delivery.
Reporting to the D2 (Grade 7) Head of Category, you will be responsible for leading on commercial activity within the Technology and Change category as part of the Insolvency Service’s Commercial Team. We operate a cross functional relationship model, and you’ll build relationships and manage stakeholders (often in more senior grades) across the agency, to provide them with commercial expertise and deliver their contracting requirements. Currently this role has a specific focus on the SIAM (Service Integration and Management) and Core Technology Management contracts which have strategic importance within the complex IT contract portfolio As well as ensuring supplier performance and compliance, and handling ongoing contract changes, you will need to work collaboratively with your commercial colleagues to identify and address impacts and dependencies across contracts and suppliers within the ecosystem. Our Commercial Business Partners are responsible for contracts through life, from requirements gathering, early market engagement and procurement to contract exit and transition.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work across the organisation and support the underpinning Digital Technology through the outsourced SIAM and Core Technology Management contracts, by providing commercial insight and expertise. In addition, you will act as a Commercial Business Partner for the Category, delivering sourcing and Contract Management for other key Contracts and Requirements across our key stakeholders, either directly or in support of other Commercial Business Partners.