5612 -Commercial Business Partner
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,463 to £52,040 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5612 |
Summary
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.
Role Summary
In this role you will contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department’s public bodies and functions, driving ‘value for money’ and risk management throughout.
You will work both independently and part of a larger team by drawing on your commercial experience to drive performance and manage setbacks. You will be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to deliver to deadlines, mitigate and escalate any emerging risks and to respond swiftly to changing operational demands.
Public Bodies Business Partnering (PBBP), Professional and Core Services Portfolio
The PBBP team sits within the Public Bodies Business Partnering, Professional and Core Services Portfolio. The team was created in late 2021 to provide commercial functional support to most of the thirty-five public bodies that MoJ sponsor, delivering critical and diverse outcomes, operating across all parts of the justice system.
This comprises of three Executive Agencies: the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) and the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) alongside other bodies such as the Youth Justice Board (YJB), Parole Board and Judicial Office.
Our aim is to lead our public bodies to be as commercially adept as possible. You will build and maintain strategic relationships between MoJ Commercial and a discrete number of public bodies and associated stakeholders. You will become a trusted partner for all things commercial. The role could be of interest to substantive SEOs seeking to broaden their business partner experience or those substantive HEOs looking for the next step on their career.
Key Responsibilities
These roles are varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or all levels of complexity, value and risk within a category. Typically, key responsibilities for a commercial professional in this role may include (but are not limited to):
Building and maintaining key relationships across the department and with important external stakeholders:
• Developing effective working relationships with your portfolio of public bodies. Devise and deploy effective and proportional commercial engagement and strategies to drive value for money, commercial compliance & enhanced commercial capability.
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders in wider MoJ Commercial, functional areas and across government.
• Provide commercial expertise and advice where needed including representation at project, contract and governance & assurance boards.
• Provision of commercial advice to stakeholders on all aspects of commercial.
• Working with key stakeholders to develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements, and supporting business units in articulating their commercial requirements.
Contributing to the improvement of commercial awareness and capability across the organisation to ensure best practice is applied through all phases of the commercial lifecycle
• Undertake commercial assessments to identify opportunities to improve the commercial awareness & capability of each public body. Proactively devise and implement activity to deliver this improvement.
• Understand and advise on the application of the latest commercial policies and best practice. This will be done in a proportional way reflective of the size, scale, nature and personnel of each public body.
• Create and maintain contract register and commercial pipelines to ensure forward planning for operational and commercial teams.
Enabling and developing the department:
• Championing procurement best practice and working collaboratively with others to create a proactive and intelligent function.
• Contributing to the maintenance and updating of systems throughout the commercial lifecycle.
• Playing a role in building capability of new starters and those on development programmes.
The possibility of leading/supporting sourcing and/or contract management activity, where requirements are not catered for within existing categories.
In addition:
• Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team
• Working within a secure environment on sensitive projects as required
• Leadership and line management of one Assistant Commercial Business Partner.
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.
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.
Role Summary
In this role you will contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department’s public bodies and functions, driving ‘value for money’ and risk management throughout.
You will work both independently and part of a larger team by drawing on your commercial experience to drive performance and manage setbacks. You will be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to deliver to deadlines, mitigate and escalate any emerging risks and to respond swiftly to changing operational demands.
Public Bodies Business Partnering (PBBP), Professional and Core Services Portfolio
The PBBP team sits within the Public Bodies Business Partnering, Professional and Core Services Portfolio. The team was created in late 2021 to provide commercial functional support to most of the thirty-five public bodies that MoJ sponsor, delivering critical and diverse outcomes, operating across all parts of the justice system.
This comprises of three Executive Agencies: the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) and the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) alongside other bodies such as the Youth Justice Board (YJB), Parole Board and Judicial Office.
Our aim is to lead our public bodies to be as commercially adept as possible. You will build and maintain strategic relationships between MoJ Commercial and a discrete number of public bodies and associated stakeholders. You will become a trusted partner for all things commercial. The role could be of interest to substantive SEOs seeking to broaden their business partner experience or those substantive HEOs looking for the next step on their career.
Key Responsibilities
These roles are varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or all levels of complexity, value and risk within a category. Typically, key responsibilities for a commercial professional in this role may include (but are not limited to):
Building and maintaining key relationships across the department and with important external stakeholders:
• Developing effective working relationships with your portfolio of public bodies. Devise and deploy effective and proportional commercial engagement and strategies to drive value for money, commercial compliance & enhanced commercial capability.
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders in wider MoJ Commercial, functional areas and across government.
• Provide commercial expertise and advice where needed including representation at project, contract and governance & assurance boards.
• Provision of commercial advice to stakeholders on all aspects of commercial.
• Working with key stakeholders to develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements, and supporting business units in articulating their commercial requirements.
Contributing to the improvement of commercial awareness and capability across the organisation to ensure best practice is applied through all phases of the commercial lifecycle
• Undertake commercial assessments to identify opportunities to improve the commercial awareness & capability of each public body. Proactively devise and implement activity to deliver this improvement.
• Understand and advise on the application of the latest commercial policies and best practice. This will be done in a proportional way reflective of the size, scale, nature and personnel of each public body.
• Create and maintain contract register and commercial pipelines to ensure forward planning for operational and commercial teams.
Enabling and developing the department:
• Championing procurement best practice and working collaboratively with others to create a proactive and intelligent function.
• Contributing to the maintenance and updating of systems throughout the commercial lifecycle.
• Playing a role in building capability of new starters and those on development programmes.
The possibility of leading/supporting sourcing and/or contract management activity, where requirements are not catered for within existing categories.
In addition:
• Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team
• Working within a secure environment on sensitive projects as required
• Leadership and line management of one Assistant Commercial Business Partner.
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.