C2/SEO Commercial Business Partner
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,812 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44,812 - £50,213 (National) £46,926 - £52,583 (London) Please note that negotiations for the Insolvency Service 2024 Pay Award are still ongoing. We will update this information in future adverts once the pay award is finalised. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 408488/2 |
Summary
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!
Do you want to take your public sector procurement, contract management and commercial skills to the next level?
Do you want more scope in your role, more influence and ownership, accountability and visibility?
Do you enjoy working on a variety of different types of Technology contracts and with multiple suppliers in a distributed SIAM eco-system?
If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you!
Role title: DDAT Commercial Business Partner (1 role - Enterprise Technology and Licencing Category)
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. More information can be found here.
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.
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 office 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 facing exciting challenges across the Sourcing Pipeline, Contract Management landscape, Transforming Public Procurement (Procurement Act) and to drive best practice against the Commercial Functional Standards. A vacancy has arisen and any candidate who passes the interview but is unsuccessful in being offered this role, may be considered via the Reserve List for any other Commercial roles that may arise in the next 12 months.
We operate a Category Management approach within our Commercial Team, consisting of 4 Category Teams; Enterprise Technology & Licencing category; Digital & Operational IT 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!
If you’re interested in applying for this role, we’ll be running two meet and greet sessions 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 this fantastic opportunity. We’re planning on hosting these sessions on 09/06/25 and 10/06/25. See 'Further Information' below.
Responsibilities
The current vacancy sits within our Enterprise Technology & Licencing Category, which along with the Digital and Operational IT (DOIT) Category Team comprises the DDAT expertise within the Commercial function.
The Enterprise Technology & Licencing team is responsible for all enterprise wide IT commercial sourcing and contract management, supporting enabling technologies including for example Network Services, MFD (Printer) services, Document Repository services, Hosting, End User Compute, SIAM, Cyber Security, Microsoft Enterprise licencing. The team works closely with technology and business stakeholders, garnering market intelligence and maintaining key business and supplier relationships, working closely with DDAT colleagues in the DOIT team.
The Digital and Operational IT (DOIT) category team is responsible for all commercial sourcing and contract management in relation to 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 the DDAT space 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 and 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 with technology colleagues and across the organisation to support the underpinning business and IT strategies to improve our services to the public and the country, by providing commercial insight and expertise.
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