C2/SEO Commercial Business Partner
| Posting date: | 27 June 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: | 14 July 2024 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358830/3 |
Summary
Do you want more scope in your role, more ownership, accountability and visibility?
Do you enjoy working on a variety of different types of contracts and with multiple 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.
About the Team
The Commercial Team is a small team of dedicated and highly competent commercial professionals, performing at an exceptionally high level and dispersed nationally across the Insolvency estate. The team works on a flexible working basis, with a mix 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 Senor Commercial Leadership are members of the Government Commercial Organisation.
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 Function Standards. As a result, we’re currently recruiting against a number of 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 currently being recruited into.
We operate a Category Management approach within our Commercial Team, consisting of 4 Category Teams; Digital & Operational IT category; Enterprise, Technology & Licencing category; Corporate Services & Operations category; and Commercial Governance & Policy category. As such we are responsible for a whole lifecycle approach to commercial activities. This will usually include leading a requirement from inception, through the Commercial sourcing cycle, mobilisation and contract management, through to Exit and Transition.
Within the Commercial Team at the Insolvency Service, we believe there are huge benefits to working within a small team. We are able to give our Commercial Business Partners (Procurement and Contracts Managers) access to complex and strategic work which enables them to demonstrate their abilities and take on extra responsibility more than other roles. This is clearly demonstrated by the fact that our leavers nearly always leave on promotion!
Role title: Commercial Business Partner (2 roles: 1x Corporate Services and Operations; 1x Digital and Operational IT)
If you’re interested in applying for either of these role, we’ll be running two 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 these fantastic opportunities.
We’re planning on hosting these sessions on Thursday 4th July for the Digital and Operational IT role, and Friday 5th July 2024 for the Corporate Services role, both sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams.
If you’d like to attend the Digital and Operational IT session, please let us know by emailing james.edlin-benwell@insolvency.gov.uk.
If you’d like to attend the Corporate Services and Ops session, please email james.leadbeater@insolvency.gov.uk.
We will then invite you along and answer your questions about the exciting opportunities to develop your Commercial career. We look forward to meeting you!
Responsibilities
These roles sit within either our Commercial Corporate Services and Operations Category Team or the Digital and Operational IT Category Team.
The Corporate Services and Operations category team is responsible for sourcing and contract management of everything across the corporate services sector (such as Legal Services, Document Management/Post, Travel and Conferencing), as well as supporting our operational colleagues for their wide ranging and unique requirements. We’re also in the unique position of supporting our Official Receivers in their work, which supports some of the biggest National Interest Cases (such as British Steel, Thomas Cook and Carillion). Our Commercial activity is varied, our stakeholders unique across Government and you will need to use and develop your commercial skills across the full commercial lifecycle.
The Digital and Operational IT category team is responsible for commercial sourcing and contract management to support the delivery of IT-related services specific to our operational teams, such as the delivery and development of the agency’s case management system (CMS), key Customer Digital Services such as the Debt Relief Orders, Redundancy Payments and Breathing Space services as well as managing licensing and applications development and integrations for our operational colleagues’ Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software solutions. The category is also responsible for undertaking commercial activity in support of some of the agency's leading-edge activities in areas such as Generative AI and Automation.
Reporting to one of the Grade 7 (D2) Heads of Category, you will be responsible for leading on a portfolio of commercial activity within either the Digital and Operational IT or Corporate Services and Operations Category Teams in the Insolvency Service’s wider Commercial team. We operate a cross functional relationship model and you’ll build relationships and manage stakeholders across a directorate or the agency, in order to provide them with commercial support for their varying requirements and existing and future contracts.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work across the organisation and support the underpinning strategies to improve our services to the public and the country, by providing commercial insight and expertise.