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On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a Commercial Manager - (Inside IR35) for a 10-month contract working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of 3 days attendance in one of London, Durham, Manchester and Liverpool offices

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

Summary of Project / Programme:

Data Services and Analytics (DSA) is part of HO Digital. DSA’s current suite of Contracts provides the raw material from which all DSA Data products are built. DSA, using these products, provide data analytics services for Border Force to manage risk at the Borders (Cerberus/HO Intelligence), for Immigration Enforcement to undertake interventions, and for National Security agencies to prevent acts of terrorism and respond to emerging threats. The products are also used to increase productivity across UK Visas & Immigration and Immigration Enforcement through automated triage of case-working for those units.

Every day, DSA receives, processes, ingests, transforms and exploits between 50 and 80 million records from a combination of over 400 unique sources. This includes data regarding border movements for people and freight, suspicious activity reports under the Poisons Act, flight schedules, crime reports, casework updates, and many more nationally critical decisions.

The contingent worker will continue the support for procurement activity for in DSA as described above.

This role supports contract implementation and management, required to maintain services in DSA. DSA in turn uses the contracts this role will deliver, to provide essential analytics services to our border and immigration teams, and QAT contracts supports the testing of those services. Demand for DSA services within the HO is growing at pace, the resource will support management of contracts with a value in excess of 220M combined, which are in the course of being replaced by a new £350m procurement, requiring ongoing procurement support and then transition and implementation through 2026.

As a Commercial Manager - (Inside IR35), your main responsibilities will be:

• Leading and supporting procurements as required within DSA.
• Manage the procurement risks developing mitigations and lessons learned, escalating as necessary.
• Engaging across DSA partners to build relationships and work collaboratively to manage supplier performance.
• Support DSA in supplier negotiations to drive best practice commercial principles and pricing through the change control process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (Senior Responsible Officers, Project Managers, Finance, Commercial Finance, Cabinet Office and others) to deliver excellent outcomes, on time, and ensure contract management is successfully handed over to business area contract managers.
• Maintain accurate data procurement and contract date to inform the commercial pipeline and reporting.

Skills and Experience

• Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders to develop tailored strategies for their procurements and contracts to ensure delivery of the goods or services to meet business demands, performance, and cost, and provide clarity on commercial dependencies and obligations on all parties.
• Experience, in a contract management context, of building strong, productive relationships at all levels and with a variety of stakeholders with different backgrounds, perspectives and drivers, in a dynamic, fast-moving, commercially focused environment.
• Proven track record of providing expert commercial advice to others that draws on relevant procurement legislation and policy.
• Ability to ensure compliance with Public Procurement regulations and provide commercial advice, leadership, and guidance to the business and peers within the commercial team.
• Ability to deliver contract changes, ensuring change management processes are followed and commercial consequences of change are managed
• Experience in leading and supporting procurements, using CCS frameworks, following the Public Procurement Regulations, and following departmental governance processes, for example, Commercial Assurance Boards, Cabinet Office and Ministerial Submissions.
• Considerable procurement and commercial experience in a complex and policy-led environment, across the end-to-end lifecycle.
• Experience of managing contracts to ensure value for money is achieved, including use of KPIs and Service Credits. Demonstrating strategic thinking, flexibility, risk management, and resilience.

Essential

• SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance
• Contract Management experience
• Experience of leading and supporting on Procurements for high value contracts
• Experience of CCS frameworks
• Public Sector experience

Desirable

• MCIPS
• Experience of running competitions within IT

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".