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Senior Strategy & Performance Manager

Job details
Posting date: 03 July 2024
Salary: £40,850 to £44,260 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 19 July 2024
Location: Glasgow
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 356517/1

Summary

Role Overview

The COHMT commercial team has recently undergone a change to its operating model and is now organised into spend category teams which are supplemented by business partners and embedded commercial teams in specialist areas and programmes. The directorate is supported by a central team responsible for the overall strategy and enabling functions.

You will support the Head of Strategy, Performance & CCS Ops to enable continuous improvement in commercial practices and adherence with Government Commercial Standards, helping the directorate realise its vision to be a top performing commercial function in government. You will also support specific ‘centres of excellence’ as defined by the Head of Strategy & Performance. These could cover contract management, governance and category management.

Team Information

The Cabinet Office and HM Treasury operate at the heart of the UK government. These iconic departments are responsible for ensuring the effective running of government, maintaining control over public spending and working to achieve strong and sustainable growth for the UK.

The Cabinet Office & HM Treasury (COHMT) Commercial team has a vision to be a top performing commercial function in government, setting best practices for others to follow. It offers a unique challenge to commercial professionals who want to work on some of the UK’s most important policy issues. The team works in partnership with all areas of the business, providing a commercial service that covers planning, commercial strategy, sourcing and contract management on circa £1bn of third party spend.

The COHMT Commercial team operates with our core values in mind which are:

We are Curious, Collaborative and Kind, we act with Integrity and are Focused on value for money.

We are looking for a Senior Strategy & Performance Manager to join our team, who will be instrumental in the development and implementation of a wide range of strategic projects across the directorate and wider departments to transform the commercial service to the departments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic support to senior commercial staff for transformation programmes and projects;
  • Work as directed by the Head of Strategy, Performance & CCS Ops to enable continual improvement and commercial capability development across the business unit and wider department;
  • Own and deliver discrete projects for functional improvement, including owning and championing specific policy areas for the department;
  • Assist in the review of transformation proposals and progress, providing advice and support to directorate staff in progressing their change initiatives through development and approvals;
  • Support in shaping engagement strategies for directorate staff, the wider departments and the Government Commercial Function to effect system, process, capability and cultural change;
  • Develop management reports and provide input into other requests for information as required;
  • Support senior colleagues in raising awareness and understanding of commercial transformation in a wider departmental and functional context.