1699 - Commercial Manager

Commercial is responsible for coordinating procurement and contract management across the MoJ, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies. Commercial is organised into category teams, each with an interesting portfolio of contracts and diverse customers and suppliers to manage. We also have systems, programme management office, supplier relationship and risk management teams who work across all areas., In this role you will contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department's key and strategic suppliers, driving 'value for money' and risk management excellence across the category. You will lead and own elements of the overall commercial lifecycle, including strategy and policy development, understanding needs and sourcing options, contract and supplier management and the procurement process itself. You will work both independently and part of a larger team by drawing on your commercial experience to drive performance and manage setbacks. You will be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to deliver to deadlines, mitigate and escalate any emerging risks and to respond swiftly to changing operational demands. Key Responsibilities These roles are varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or level of complexity, value and risk within a category. Typically, key responsibilities for a commercial professional in this role may include (but are not limited to): Strategic delivery and management within a category:

• Understanding the department's commercial strategy and feeding into the planning process based on commercial approaches that deliver requirements in line with business needs, category strategies and market trends
• Feeding into the development of category strategies and delivery of sourcing requirement within commercial, as part of the team supporting business as usual and project activities
• Understanding demand by forecasting and planning requirements with internal stakeholders and suppliers
• Developing and maintaining category plans for key spend areas
Understanding relevant sourcing options and analysis, delivering positive outcomes through the procurement process:
• Leading on end-to-end strategic sourcing activities for the department and serving as a subject matter expert
• Working with key stakeholders to develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements, and supporting business units in articulating their commercial requirements
• Advising and providing professional guidance throughout the sourcing process, considering and evaluating a range of sourcing models
• Leading development of commercial input into business cases, demonstrating a project's benefits, 'value for money' and risk
• Influencing and shaping future procurement policy and standards across the department
• Identifying opportunities to develop collaborative partnerships with suppliers
• Providing a procurement service to the department which delivers demonstrable 'value for money' and compliant goods and services contracts as part of a team of procurement professionals on larger procurement activities, including driving productivity opportunities with existing supply base to deliver further savings
• Negotiating with third parties where necessary, using knowledge and experience relating to commercial negotiation techniques
• Understanding and being accountable for sourcing compliance and frameworks
Ensuring effective Commercial Contract and Supplier Management within the category:
• Evaluating the performance of suppliers against the specification and reporting regularly
  
  The Ministry of Justice has one of the largest and most complex spending profiles in central government. Each year we spend more than £5 billion with our suppliers and it's our job to help coordinate the sourcing of what we need. We support the management of our contracts across the department, its agencies and non departmental public bodies.