Job summary

Commercial is an agile and dynamic team with a positive culture. We embrace change and drive continuous improvement.

The Department has grown significantly in recent years, leading to greater demand and need for procurement and commercial support. The Commercial Directorate has embarked on a transformation journey and continue to improve our systems, processes and capabilities to meet the needs of the Department.

The Commercial Directorate is made up of key pillars to provide cross-functional support to government programmes and policies: Assurance, Governance, Procurement, Policy, and Supply Chains.

This allows the team to successfully manage the commercial risk profile of the Department; deliver goods and services that demonstrate value for money; and implement government policy and initiatives to achieve social value.

We collaborate and engage with our Arm Lengths Bodies to support our key sectors.

Job description

The role holder will work within an integrated commercial functional team, working on delivering innovative commercial solutions. We work flexibly, within a project based, delivery focussed and dynamic environment. We work with pace and are creative, innovative and ambitious. The role holder will work cross-functionally, providing support in a specialised area and the main focus of the role will be in providing project and specialist support to the development of Supply Chain policy and strategy, management and delivery.

This will primarily involve:

• Collate and interpret market intelligence to support effective supply chain management and development of commercial strategies;
• Creation of processes to map and monitor supply chains in DCMS;
• Develop market and category reports, putting in place a process to embed this in BAU, and identification of risks escalating and providing recommendations/solutions as appropriate to protect DCMS key contracts and supply chains;
• Engage and influence Public Bodies to improve supply chain management capability;
• Work to increase SME and VCSE participation in DCMS procurements and supply chains.

Person specification

The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience.

Essential requirements:

• Have an understanding of Government Commercial policies and procedures, or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills;
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Be able to demonstrate experience in planning and managing processes.
• Be able to collate, analyse and present a variety of different datasets in various formats.
• Have experience and understand of supply chain management and risk processes.

Desirable skills:

• Hold a professional qualification i.e. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Membership (MCIPS) or have the equivalent experience covering procurement or contract management or other commercial experience;
• Be aware of Programme and Project Management techniques and experience of delivering results using these methodologies.

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Nick Bibby and will take place on: Wednesday 21st January at 10am

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please register your interest by filling out this Registration form by 3pm the day before the session is due to take place and you will be sent an invitation. Invites will only be sent after this deadline has passed. Please note that the session will not be recorded and will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk