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Assistant Supply Chain Manager

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 19 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog: £42,614 i £45,081 bob blwyddyn
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 06 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad: Leeds
Cwmni: Government Recruitment Service
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 410978/4

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For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.

The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.

Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.​

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.

DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

  • Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
  • Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
  • Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
  • Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
  • Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

  • OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
  • INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
  • SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
  • DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
  • THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.

This role will take ownership of the performance management of one of our estates suppliers This role will represent DWP Estates as the intelligent client against agreed performance metrics and will foster a collaborative relationship to drive innovation and identify improvement opportunities.

Key accountabilities

Performance and Governance

  • Accountable for supporting supplier performance management within the estates function providing ongoing performance and risk management against the agreed contractual performance obligations and ensuring contract management is effectively discharged. Overseeing the delivery of corrective actions to improve performance, working closely with DWP Estates Category Management (Commercial Team) on issues that require commercial input or escalation, as well as working closely with broader DWP Estates’ Teams to obtain operational insights.
  • Responsible for supporting performance management governance undertaking reviews of Management Information. Leading regular performance reviews, identifying any trends as part of the governance process to collaboratively develop early corrective actions within the estates Supply Chain.
  • Working across the DWP Estates’ portfolio to support development of Supply Chain Function reporting including supplier performance and risk management, ensuring alignment with functional governance and best practice. Support reviews of estates audits against contractual obligations.
  • Responsible for ensuring Suppliers deliver work orders in line with contractual and customer requirements, provide the required data to the systems, and working with DWP Cost Management team within Cost and Supplier Performance Management to ensure they are paid.

Relationship management

  • Effectively managing the supplier/client relationship across the Estates stakeholders, this role will lead translation of Estates’ business requirements into the services, and will support the DWP Estates Category Management team who will oversee the contractual relationship between DWP and the Supply Chain.
  • This role will work collaboratively to ensure Estates Control Framework and End 2 End processes are effectively embedded and articulated across the Supply Chain and monitor the performance of the Supplier and health of the relationships.
  • Building a strategic and collaborative relationship with nominated Suppliers to foster innovation and actively identify risks, continuous improvement opportunities to improve service, efficiencies and value for money.
  • Ensuring the estates supply chain delivers outcomes that our customers need and at the requisite service quality including management of the work order processes.

Change Management

  • Managing service or other change requests, validating operational / business requirements with the Estates stakeholders. Providing supporting information and undertaking contract administration activities and assurance against contractual requirements to support the DWP Category Management team to execute necessary contractual changes.
  • Maintaining records of all decisions made and instructions issued to nominated suppliers. Maintaining an auditable change control register.
  • Working closely with broader DWP Estates Teams, Service Delivery and Operations teams, to ensure change requests accurately reflect DWP requirements. Overlaying supply chain insight and operational information to determine required changes in scope, service and volume to accurately reflect DWP’s requirements.
  • Proactively identify areas for continuous improvement within the Supply Chain.
  • Supporting re-procurement activity through ensuring procurement documentation, including performance metrics / KPIs, accurately reflects the desired capabilities and requirements related to the estates Supply Chain and takes account of any previously identified gaps in service, operational insights or past performance trends.

Strategy

  • Implementation of Supply Chain category strategy and development plans as agreed by the DWP Estates Category Management team and the Estates stakeholders.

Health & Safety

  • Working with the DWP Estates H&S team to ensure nominated suppliers meet their Health and Safety obligations ensuring they carry out commensurate corrective action where necessary.

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