Companies and Commercial Projects Manager
| Posting date: | 03 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,026 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 March 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 394083/1 |
Summary
In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.
Within the Capital Directorate we’ve got a wonderful mix of teams. We manage the department’s c.£12 billion portfolio of capital investments; we set the long-term strategic direction for the NHS estate; we lead the department’s major projects, capital delivery and investment committee functions; we manage the department's interests in DHSC-owned companies and complex commercial projects; and we lead the department’s work on counter fraud. Based in DHSC finance, we are a multi-disciplinary function with staff from a range of professions including finance, commercial, project delivery, policy, property, fraud and private finance initiative (PFI) specialists.
The Companies and Commercial Projects team is at the heart of the department’s work to improve health and social care outcomes with responsibility for leading our support for, and assurance of, some of our most complex financial and commercial matters.
The Companies and Commercial Projects Team provides oversight of DHSC-owned limited companies. The team also manage a number of commercial and policy projects, including company transfers, property projects and the resolution of Covid-19 Personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts. This role will involve providing support across the team, both in sponsorship of DHSC companies and initially support to the DHSC’s work with the Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner. In this role you will be responsible for providing corporate and policy support across the portfolio of DHSC-owned companies and commercial projects. This involves building relationships with senior leaders of the DHSC owned companies, ensuring they have up to date framework agreements, schemes of delegation and other governance documents in place and performing checks against an assurance framework. you will be required to read and analyse comprehensive board packs and provide briefing to Shareholder directors. You will also be required to support with both assurance of DHSC company business cases and drafting of business cases across the property and Covid-19 PPE contract dissolution areas of the team as required. On 3rd December 2024, the Chancellor of the Exchequer appointed a Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner. This is a high-profile one-year fixed term appointment with the important aim of ensuring everything that can be done has been done to recover public money lost to fraud and under-performing contracts. The Commissioner reports directly to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and as well as working within HM Treasury, the Commissioner will need to work closely with the DHSC. A significant element of the Covid Commissioner's role is expected to examine Covid PPE contracts, and the team leads on the department’s engagement with the Commissioner and the wider supporting team. This role will include advising on the department's response to the Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner's work to ensure that everything possible is done in cases where money is lost to PPE fraud and underperforming contracts. This role will involve working closely with senior stakeholders within DHSC And wider government to ensure a joined-up departmental response to supporting the investigation of Covid-related PPE fraud and contractual disputes. The ideal candidate will be adept at working at pace to respond flexibly to the demanding workload of the team and working across multiple areas. |
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