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4623 - Assistant Commercial Manager – Procurement Manager
| Posting date: | 02 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,140 to £42,019 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £34,140 - £37,105, London salary range is £38,661 - £42,019. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 April 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4623 |
Summary
Job Title Assistant Commercial Manager – Procurement Manager
Job Grade HEO
Job Location National
Contract Type Permanent
Business Area Ministry of Justice Commercial
Working pattern Full-time
Number of Posts 1
Commercial
The Ministry of Justice has one of the largest and most complex spending profiles in central government. Each year we spend more than £5 billion with our suppliers and it’s our job to help coordinate the sourcing of what we need. We support the management of our contracts across the department, its agencies and non departmental public bodies.
Commercial is responsible for coordinating procurement and contract management across the MoJ, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies. Commercial is organised into category teams, each with an interesting portfolio of contracts and diverse customers and suppliers to manage. We also have systems, programme management office, supplier relationship and risk management teams who work across all areas.
Rehabilitation Services in Community
The probation arm of His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) supports more than 243,000 individuals a year in their joruney to rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation portfolio leads on the procurements of all outsourced probation related services, such as accommodation, education and finance, and unique services such as dependency and recovery. HMPPS contains a diverse set of regionally based clients that each pose their own unique set of commercial challenges and opportunities. As such, no day looks quite like the other and we’re always ready to be responsive to an emerging need.
Day-to-day the successful candidate can expect themselves to be working within a fast-paced environment, supporting the Senior Commercial Managers in delivering our £1.4billion core services contracts, and taking ownership of lower-value, less complext procurements. The role holder will be working with a wide and diverse set of stakeholders and will need to bring new ideas to help shape the way the team works, promoting continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Role Summary
In this role you will contribute to the procurement process, delivering commercial excellence for your department and providing a customer-focused service. The role is varied as you will be expected to operate within relevant frameworks in order to contribute to all stages of the procurement process, from gathering requirements from across the business in line with market research, through to the handing over of the contract to contract and supplier management.
You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.
Key Responsibilities
Typically, the key responsibilities in this role will include (but are not limited to):
• Working effectively with senior staff in the supplier organisation and establishing appropriate governance and relationship arrangements
• Applying the organisations and government-wide key performance indicators (KPIs) and measures supplier performance against them
• Briefing and training evaluators in the use of e-sourcing tools (e.g. managing supplier correspondence)
• Developing the bidders’ packs including reviewing and clarifying the specification, drafting appropriate tools and considering optimal pricing and incentivisation mechanisms for simple low value purchases and procurements
• Leading and managing the end to end tendering process
• Debriefing unsuccessful suppliers
• Participating in strategic and business negotiations in order to deliver the agreed strategy and comply with the procurement process
• Leading supplier engagement across a variety of stages within the procurement process
• Using methods and strategic relationships to manage risks and foster high quality, reliable and on time delivery of products and services, which are only available from one supplier
• Working effectively with the contract management function as part of the contract management mobilisation phase
• Applying a strong visual project management approach to procurement projects
• Identifying and communicating perceived and relevant areas of risk (to include cyber, personnel and physical risks) and gaining agreement on how best to manage/mitigate
• Using cost models and associated commercial and security concepts
As part of your own personal career development in the Commercial team, there could be opportunities to move roles at the same grade. In some circumstances, we may need to move you on to business-critical priorities at the same grade to meet business need.
Essential Criteria
Procurement Process: Has some practical experience in carrying out elements of the procurement process with support for low value and low risk contracts.
Commercial Focus: Has an understanding of elementary economics factors that may determine a market shape, dynamics and models, the changes in the business needs of an organisation and is familiar with key commercial tools.
Job Grade HEO
Job Location National
Contract Type Permanent
Business Area Ministry of Justice Commercial
Working pattern Full-time
Number of Posts 1
Commercial
The Ministry of Justice has one of the largest and most complex spending profiles in central government. Each year we spend more than £5 billion with our suppliers and it’s our job to help coordinate the sourcing of what we need. We support the management of our contracts across the department, its agencies and non departmental public bodies.
Commercial is responsible for coordinating procurement and contract management across the MoJ, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies. Commercial is organised into category teams, each with an interesting portfolio of contracts and diverse customers and suppliers to manage. We also have systems, programme management office, supplier relationship and risk management teams who work across all areas.
Rehabilitation Services in Community
The probation arm of His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) supports more than 243,000 individuals a year in their joruney to rehabilitation. The Rehabilitation portfolio leads on the procurements of all outsourced probation related services, such as accommodation, education and finance, and unique services such as dependency and recovery. HMPPS contains a diverse set of regionally based clients that each pose their own unique set of commercial challenges and opportunities. As such, no day looks quite like the other and we’re always ready to be responsive to an emerging need.
Day-to-day the successful candidate can expect themselves to be working within a fast-paced environment, supporting the Senior Commercial Managers in delivering our £1.4billion core services contracts, and taking ownership of lower-value, less complext procurements. The role holder will be working with a wide and diverse set of stakeholders and will need to bring new ideas to help shape the way the team works, promoting continuous improvement, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Role Summary
In this role you will contribute to the procurement process, delivering commercial excellence for your department and providing a customer-focused service. The role is varied as you will be expected to operate within relevant frameworks in order to contribute to all stages of the procurement process, from gathering requirements from across the business in line with market research, through to the handing over of the contract to contract and supplier management.
You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.
Key Responsibilities
Typically, the key responsibilities in this role will include (but are not limited to):
• Working effectively with senior staff in the supplier organisation and establishing appropriate governance and relationship arrangements
• Applying the organisations and government-wide key performance indicators (KPIs) and measures supplier performance against them
• Briefing and training evaluators in the use of e-sourcing tools (e.g. managing supplier correspondence)
• Developing the bidders’ packs including reviewing and clarifying the specification, drafting appropriate tools and considering optimal pricing and incentivisation mechanisms for simple low value purchases and procurements
• Leading and managing the end to end tendering process
• Debriefing unsuccessful suppliers
• Participating in strategic and business negotiations in order to deliver the agreed strategy and comply with the procurement process
• Leading supplier engagement across a variety of stages within the procurement process
• Using methods and strategic relationships to manage risks and foster high quality, reliable and on time delivery of products and services, which are only available from one supplier
• Working effectively with the contract management function as part of the contract management mobilisation phase
• Applying a strong visual project management approach to procurement projects
• Identifying and communicating perceived and relevant areas of risk (to include cyber, personnel and physical risks) and gaining agreement on how best to manage/mitigate
• Using cost models and associated commercial and security concepts
As part of your own personal career development in the Commercial team, there could be opportunities to move roles at the same grade. In some circumstances, we may need to move you on to business-critical priorities at the same grade to meet business need.
Essential Criteria
Procurement Process: Has some practical experience in carrying out elements of the procurement process with support for low value and low risk contracts.
Commercial Focus: Has an understanding of elementary economics factors that may determine a market shape, dynamics and models, the changes in the business needs of an organisation and is familiar with key commercial tools.