Commercial Enabling Adviser

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Location

Andover

About the job

Summary

Building a strong Commercial Function in Government, and with it the right commercial capability, is at the heart of a far-reaching programme of Civil Service reform.

We are building a cadre of commercial talent in all Government departments; people who can manage our commercial portfolios, who can lead our most complex and novel programmes and projects, people who have the gravitas and depth of experience to work alongside our policy and operational leaders to develop innovative commercial arrangements, whether through joint ventures, outsourcing or best-in-class contracts.

The Government Commercial Organisation is an employer which is truly committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and are able to perform to their potential. We understand the importance of diversity and inclusion and strive for a workplace that reflects the communities which we serve. We especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, candidates with a disability and candidates with gender-diverse identities. Appointments will be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.

We have already made significant progress through the establishment of the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), our single employer of senior commercial talent across government. This role will sit within the GCO, but based in our MOD commercial team delivering departmental objectives.

Job description

Following work to review the Army Commercial Operating Model one. recommendation was to establish Commercial Enabling Advisers to be
embedded in the Army’s largest customer teams, Field Army is one of those teams. This will be the ‘Go To’ commercial expert within this
parts of the organisation, responsible for early engagement and forward
planning of commercial activity, provision of commercial advice, and the
development of commercial awareness and acumen.

Excellent commercial skills, coupled with the ability to build relationships with a range of military / non-military stakeholders are key components of the role
 

Responsibilities


  • Providing commercial advice to Army customers, including routes to market, engagement with other Commercial Delivery Partners, commercial approvals and on commercial purchase to payment systems exploitation;

  • Generating ideas for securing better value for money in meeting Army capability requirements through support to requirement setting and development of commercial strategies;

  • Identifying, developing and testing innovative commercial models with Army customers;

  • Facilitating engagement with wider Army Commercial colleagues, supporting the Army customer in developing greater innovation in its capability solutions particularly at early stages of capability and requirement definition. Enabling industry engagement in the pursuit of innovation;

  • Developing, maximising and sustaining improved commercial awareness across the Army customer;

  • Understanding the customer’s procurement pipeline;

  • Exploiting commercial Management Information and Business Information to help the customer make more informed procurement decisions;

  • Being an active member of the customers internal Boards as appropriate;

  • Being an active member of the Army Commercial Senior Leadership Team, working collegiately with peers to deliver the Army Commercial leadership objectives and the Defence Commercial Functional Plan;

  • Contributing to the GCO and Army Civil Service leadership objectives through mentoring, team development events and master classes.


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Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Commercial Focus - In-depth procurement knowledge that has delivered outstanding value for money and great commercial outcomes.
  • Builds Relationships - Proven experience influencing senior internal and external stakeholders, effectively communicating commercial information to specialist & non specialist audiences.
  • Decisive - ability to resolve commercial situations in a manner which may not be a key stakeholders preferred way forward.
  • Market insight - The ability to use specific market knowledge to resolve commercial problems.
  • Resilient - experience managing large workloads, and overcoming commercial challenges.

Benefits

As a valued employee of the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), you will have access to all the benefits the centre has to offer; including flexible working, generous benefits, Career Coaches, Mentors, L&D, a Commercial College, active talent management and, most importantly, access to commercial projects that will far exceed the scale and complexity on offer elsewhere in the UK.

For existing Civil Servants: For full details of the impact on any move across the civil service on your existing terms and conditions, please read the candidate pack. Please note that any move across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to continue to claim childcare vouchers.

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

For full details of our process, and a likely timeline, please read the explanation provided in the attached candidate pack.

Throughout our selection process, we will make decisions about your capability to do the job, based on evidence you provide against the essential criteria for the role which are detailed in the attached Candidate Pack.

Your application will be reviewed by a panel and should you be successful at sift we will invite you to attend a Virtual commercial Assessment and Development Centre (VADC). The panel will review results of the VADC and determine which candidates will go through to a subsequent final panel interview

IMPORTANT: If you do not receive an acknowledgement of your application within 2 working days please contact: commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UKs
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Stephen Sharpe

Email : commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

 

Recruitment team :

Email : commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact Helen Mallison (helen.mallison@cabinetoffice.gov.uk) in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission via the following web page: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

Job ID
63
Job Title
Commercial Enabling Adviser
Start Date
01/21/2021
Application Deadline
February 21, 2021
Salary Range
$61000.00 - $74000.00
Job Location
Andover, UK,
Website
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=am9ibGlzdF92aWV3X3ZhYz0xNzA0MTI3Jm93bm 

Contact Information

Name
Hooper, Barry
Email
Barry.Hooper@justice.gov.uk 
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