Category Officer - Grants & Grants Prominent Programmes
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 24 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £34,765 i £41,375 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £34,765 - £37,080 London: £38,795 - £41,375 For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’. |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 442440/1 |
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- Support and lead the delivery of projects, grants, procurements and contract / supplier management roles across an allocated customer category.
- Support the management and development of key supplier relationships to deliver exceptional performance in cost, service and quality.
- Build and sustain effective relationships with category customers.
- Provide day to day advice on commercial issues and governance across the relevant category, taking full account of risk, exploiting commercial opportunities and maximising value of money and savings.
Defra Group Commercial (DGC) is part of Defra, the central Government Department responsible for growing the rural economy; improving the environment; and safeguarding animal and plant health. DGC is responsible for providing a commercial service to organisations within the Defra Network.
This role requires the post-holder to provide support to their customers to deliver value effectively and innovatively so that the customer organisation outcomes and objectives can be met alongside the achievement of key corporate targets.
The post-holder will be required to award and monitor high value, medium risk contracts and grants in accordance with Defra’s commercial policies and procedures. They will be expected to deliver propriety and value for money whilst applying commercial life-cycle principles.
The work will involve promoting commercial policies and procedures whilst influencing the final outcomes. It includes the provision of expert advice to the business on commercial issues and governance and operational support to the team.
The post holder will be expected to engage with colleagues across the country, building the Commercial network both internally and through the wider Defra network and Government Bodies.
- Deliver and support in the delivery of projects, grants, procurements and contract / supplier management across the full commercial life cycle providing functional / specialist input to improve ways of working and business change and efficiency.
- Be responsible for explaining specialist commercial guidance to operational teams to influence compliance with Defra policy / legislation / best practice ways of working and contribute to the delivery of business plans.
- Keep up to date on changing legislation / best practice externally, to inform internal priorities and appropriate alignment.
- Contribute to the development of Defra policy / process at national / local level and monitor and advise on effective implementation in the business, in line with environmental targets.
- Build and sustain effective relationships with operational customers to understand issues and provide effective response / steer for operational needs.
- Train and help others on policies, procedures, practices and techniques equipping them with the knowledge and skills to deliver their work in an effective and efficient manner.
- Support team members to deliver results on time, to required quality standards and cost to fulfil the business plan and achieve / support environmental goals.
- Support the delivery of contracts and grants such that sustainable impacts and opportunities are identified and managed throughout the commercial lifecycle.
- Manage your own resources to meet business needs, including electronic sourcing and contract management applications, to maximise the efficient and effective use of finances and people to ensure that all activities are completed to time, cost and quality targets.
- Support the development of Defra sub-category and category plans and develop your own market category knowledge and expertise.
- The provision of day-to-day advice on commercial issues and governance, taking full account of risk, exploiting commercial opportunities and maximising value of money and savings
The work that you will be doing
The Category Officer will report to a Senior Category Officer (SEO) and will undertake activities at the agreed level. This job description is generic and may apply to all Category Officer posts. The post-holder may be asked to work (at an agreed level) across several different commercial areas within DGC.
The post-holder will be accountable for:
- The provision of day-to-day advice on commercial issues and governance, taking full account of risk, exploiting commercial opportunities and maximising value of money and savings
- The provision of support and the delivery of medium risk procurements utilising the following core commercial processes:
- The preparation of initial sourcing strategies and contributing towards business plans.
- Supporting and helping to deliver market engagement exercises.
- Preparing pre-tender and tender documents in conjunction with customers.
- Running tenders in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, including all requests for information documentation and the management of evaluations.
- Running Grant Competitions in line with Grants Standards
- Preparing recommendations for tender outcome.
- Preparing contract management documentation in conjunction with stakeholders.
- The use of leading practice commercial tools to develop and implement commercial strategies.
- Supporting the management of more complex contracts including:
- Supporting the management and development of key supplier relationships to deliver exceptional performance in cost service and quality.
- Supporting the establishment and maintenance of excellent relationships within customer organisation and wider government with key stakeholders, raising the profile of commercial activity within customer organisations.
- Participating in the production of National/European Commercial standards and guidance to inform the business and improve commercial implementation, promoting commercial principles and applying policy where appropriate.
- Representing the Commercial team at meetings with internal stakeholders and deputising for the Senior Category Officer as required.
- Supporting colleagues, training them as appropriate to help support them with the knowledge and skills to deliver their work in an effective and efficient manner.
- The appropriate use of commercial and contract/grant management IT systems and applications.
- Your own continuous professional development by keeping up to date on legislation, best practice and developing industry knowledge and commercial understanding within a commercial category and using this knowledge to support development of the Category and Sub-category plans.
Financial Scheme of Delegation
All Category Officers have a delegated authority at all stages of the commercial process to:
- Sign-off of commercial strategies and contract/grant award reports up to £100k.
- Make commercial commitments up to £100k per commercial project.
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