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On behalf of the Intellectual Property Office, we are looking for a Commercial Manager - (Inside IR35) for a 12-month contract working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of 1 day attendance in the Newport office and for occasional team meetings.

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is the official UK government body responsible for intellectual property (IP) rights including patents, designs, trademarks and copyright. Our ambition is to be the best IP office, and we intend to achieve this by:

• Delivering excellent IP services
• Creating a world leading IP environment
• Making the IPO a brilliant place to work

We operate and maintain a clear and accessible intellectual property system in the UK, which encourages innovation and helps the economy and society to benefit from knowledge and ideas. We help people get the right type of protection for their creation or invention.

We are responsible for:

• IPO Policy
• educating businesses and consumers about IP rights and responsibilities
• supporting IP enforcement
• granting UK Patents, trademarks and design rights

We have a small office in the heart of London, but our main office is on the outskirts of Newport, South Wales.

About us - Intellectual Property Office - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are looking for an individual with experience of managing a Corporate Service category in a central government Arm’s Length Body setting. Examples of the categories of work are as follows:

• Research and policy procurement
• Intellectual Property tooling
• Travel & Fleet
• Workplace services
• Stationary

The individual will be expected to lead and oversee the full range of commercial activity including managing the category, running competitions, providing expertise and guidance as well as other best practice initiatives and ultimately drive value for money for the taxpayer.

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

• Maintain & develop a category strategy, undertake soft market testing, identify opportunities to develop effective supplier relationships, understanding costs, risks/ rewards, manage the category procurement pipeline and develops options for business cases, including articulating associated benefits and producing supporting arguments for the preferred option.
• Works with internal stakeholders to understand, guide and support commercial activity and decision making associated with third party engagement; including developing a comprehensive pipeline of activity.
• Provides effective line management of a Commercial Officer and able to work across Category teams to collaborate and solve wider Commercial challenges.
• Ensure across the team all commercial activity is captured where appropriate within the e-procurement system Atamis.
• Ensures the appropriate application of commercial policy and compliance to Procurement regulations across all team activities.
• Support refinement of requirements and evaluation criteria and develop ITT documentation for procurements.
• Support all stages of the procurement process in line with public contracts regulations.
• Manage release of the requirements through the e-procurement system, including uploading documentation and responding to supplier clarification questions.
• This list of responsibilities is not all encompassing and you will be asked to undertake further tasks which may not be listed.

To be considered for this role, please ensure your CV evidences the following essential criteria.

Essential Criteria

• All round Commercial background
• Experience of working within a category type structure
• Procurement within central government
• Experience of using procurement IT systems

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, IPO 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. 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".