Commercial Contracts Manager
| Posting date: | 31 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £53,400 to £59,700 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | G2 8HS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 354457/2 |
Summary
Your role:
As the Contract Manager, you will be responsible for the transition to, and delivery of, the newly procured (multi-million pound) contract.
You will ensure that all contractual commercial outcomes are achieved, ensuring that robust processes are in place to manage supplier performance and safeguard the delivery of critical services. To do this, you will engage regularly with Supplier(s), GPG stakeholders (including members of the Senior Leadership Team) and other government departments to ensure that transition and service delivery issues are identified and resolved.
We are looking for someone who has experience of managing a service delivery contract, including monitoring supplier performance.
Experience of working with government’s Model Services Contracts would be preferred, but not essential.
You will have a sound understanding of commercial and/or procurement processes, with the confidence to lead, influence and negotiate with stakeholders, in particular contractors.
You will have experience of collaborating with other organisations to drive improved value for money in the delivery of contracted services.
You are a natural problem solver and lookout for ways to make improvements. You are not afraid of a challenge and enjoy an environment that encourages you to think outside the box.
This role is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to make a real impact in a significant transformation programme. We enjoy enabling people to find meaningful jobs, and teams to find great colleagues - contributing to a diverse culture that reflects the diversity in the UK.
Our team: Our team is made of technical and digital delivery multidisciplinary professionals (Service Owner, Product and Delivery Managers, User-centred Design, Business Analysts), project and programme management, and we are closely supported by the Cabinet Office Commercial function. You will be embedded in the delivery team, with close support from the Commercial team.
What you’ll work on:
You will join our cross-functional agile delivery team focusing on transforming Civil Service Jobs, and helping to redesign how the service should be delivered in the future.
Civil Service Jobs is used by over 3 million candidates per month to find and view vacancies across the Civil Service. Each year it handles over 2 million applications and advertises 140,000 posts. The live service is used by 211 organisations to advertise their vacancies and manage their recruitment processes. Currently, Civil Service Jobs is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provision that has been configured and enhanced to meet Civil Service recruitment, digital and security standards.
Along with the live service, we are running a Recruitment Transformation programme, looking at what the future service should look like. We’ve completed our Discovery and Alpha phases, where we did extensive user research and prototype design, to explore our user needs and potential solutions for the biggest areas of improvement.
We’ve decided that our service needs to procure rather than building our own, so we’ve now moved into the Beta procurement phase, followed by a build and migration phase to be completed by the end of 2026.
The Department:
Government People Group (GPG) is a large business unit of the Cabinet Office with around 610 staff bringing together back office services across government. It supports the Civil Service with high-volume HR and finance processes, aligning with the Government's modernisation agenda. Established in August 2020, it covers Shared Services, Government Recruitment, Civil Service and Royal Mail Pensions, and the Platforms and Services to support these. GPG delivers services for around 480,000 civil servants across government, it supports 1.5m pension scheme members alongside Royal Mail and provides recruitment services for around 70% of all Civil Service recruitment.