Commercial Lead, Governance, Risk and Compliance
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Job Title: Commercial Lead, Governance, Risk and Compliance
Salary: Salary: £61,761 to £68,281 plus an allowance of £2,148 (Zone 1) or £1,341 (Zone 2) depending on Location. You will receive £61,761 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £68,281 will be via incremental progression.
Location: London
MORE CHALLENGES.
MORE EXCITEMENT.
MORE OPPORTUNITIES.
BE AT THE HEART OF A CHANGING SERVICE.
Background to the Role
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commercial Function are responsible for delivering end-to-end commercial lifecycle management and supporting the wider business in working with third parties.
The MPS spends about £800 million each year on a diverse range of goods and services and we aim to procure them in the most cost effective and compliant way, while satisfying often urgent operational needs. We proactively manage thirty large complex and operationally critical outsourced service contracts, to ensure that we receive the quality services we are paying for and achieve value for money through the entire life of the contract.
This is an exciting time to be working in commercial management for the MPS. The MPS Commercial Function are in the middle of a large-scale transformation, working to deliver the following strategic aims:
- Build a world class capability and team;
- Engage effectively with our markets and suppliers;
- Improving and simplifying how we work;
- Delivering outcomes through commercial policy.
In addition to large-scale transformation, there's the unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London. This means that there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest Police Service.
Role Description
This role is an integral part of Commercial Services. In 2020, the Met Commercial Function revised its operating model and identified the need for a bolstered Enablement and Performance Team.
In this role, you will lead the Governance, Risk and Compliance work-stream of the Enablement and Performance Team. You will be responsible for many aspects of MPS’s commercial control framework (e.g. policy, legislation, governance procedures). You will be accountable for analysing, managing and reporting on commercial risk for the MPS’s third party arrangements. You will also play a key role in the wider coordination and ownership of MPS’s IP through commercial arrangements, owning key governance-related relationships (e.g. with MOPAC), ensuring compliance with all relevant contracts and maintaining knowledge of all rules relating to and impacting commercial activity within MPS.
In this role, you would be expected to deliver on:
- Designing, implementing and leading a risk management strategy across the Commercial function
- Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders across the MPS Commercial team, the wider MPS business and outside of the MPS
- Overall responsibility for commercial compliance across commercial services and wider MPS business
- Ensuring management remain informed of regulatory, legislative and best practice changes and their obligations under these changes and how they impact the commercial services and wider MPS business
- Acting as a leader across the Commercial team, providing support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within the organisation
In addition to the above, you will be a leader within the Enablement and Performance team and expected to support the team’s growth and evolution.
Key Responsibilities
What does the average day look like? Your core duties will include (but are not limited to):
- Leading the setting and maintenance of internal policy and promoting across commercial services, ensuring they are regularly refreshed, drawing on best practice both within MPS and external bodies, and communicating key changes to the relevant teams
- Responsibility for governance, risk and control across all commercial activity
- Leading governance forums, responsible for decision making process across commercial and attending key MPS decision making forums beyond commercial services (where necessary)
- Dictating the structure, process, committees etc. for directing and administering the commercial operations of MPS in order to achieve desired outcomes, in line with internal policy and wider legislation
- Providing regular reports to boards and other relevant bodies detailing any current issues or information as required
- Ensuring regulatory and company requirements are met and that there is suitable evidence to support this
- Reviewing and maintaining controls, monitoring their effectiveness and enhancing where necessary
- Working with Pillar teams to improve commercial compliance and ensure application of the relevant regulations Maintaining the Commercial Risk Log, and driving the regular update and reporting on this, escalating risks and issues where needed to relevant stakeholders
- Driving a consistent risk management methodology across commercial and the wider MPS, working closely with Contract and Supplier Relationship Managers to reduce overall MPS risk
- Managing oversight of risk and promoting a culture of good compliance and risk awareness
- Management of a Governance, Risk and Compliance Team, ensuring the team delivers on activities within its plan
- Own and manage Business Continuity planning for the Commercial function
- Work with wider risk management teams to understand impacts of or perception of commercial risks e.g. external threats etc.
- Develop the cross-category Commercial pipeline and publish this, where appropriate
- Manage and support commercial database/ categories in maintaining the internal commercial pipeline
- Driving improvement and compliance across Commercial, sharing knowledge and best practice, drawing together key stakeholders and using relationships to achieve better outcomes for MPS
- Your key relationships will be with colleagues across the Commercial function. Other, internal Stakeholders will include MPS-wide finance and legal colleagues, and Police Staff and Police Officer colleagues, including Business Unit leads. External Stakeholders will include MOPAC officers
The Enablement & Performance Team are there to support and enable the MPS Commercial Team and wider Commercial Family. Owning key enablers such as data, systems, legislation/ policy implications that impact on Commercial practises. They will also ensure the processes that Commercial follow are compliant and optimized. The bolstered function will also drive improvement across the end – end Commercial capability through improved data, reporting and enhanced processes and systems, sharing best practice across the Commercial Function and MPS. The Enablement and Performance team is split into four sub teams, which drive consistency , efficiency and increased levels of support across the function, one of these sub teams is the Governance, Risk & Compliance.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
To apply, please visit our website to download a role-specific information pack. Applications will be via a detailed CV and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role.
Completed applications must be submitted by 14th December 2020.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
This role will need to be ADC accredited to Commercial Lead level - if you do not currently have this accreditation you will be required to sit and pass this course once in post
Essential
- A good understanding of the principles of end-to-end commercial lifecycle management
- Extensive knowledge of the key aspects of governance, commercial policy and relevant legislation
- Experience of designing, developing and rolling out compliance improvement programmes and initiatives
- Extensive experience of risk management
- Ability to influence others and move towards a common vision or goal
- Excellent communicator, with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholder and sponsors
- Ability to work efficiently in a high-pressured environment, problem solving and delivering to strict deadlines and targets
- Track record of team leadership and people development in a diverse and complex environment
- Experience in Business Continuity Planning
Desirable
- Knowledge of public sector and European procurement regulations
- Understanding of (or ability to assimilate quickly) public sector governance processes
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in fast-moving project and/or programme environments with numerous stakeholders
- Experience at using systems to generate management information/reporting to drive decision making
- Experience of working at varying levels with internal and occasionally external stakeholders
- Requirement for candidate to pass ADC at Commercial Lead (CL) level.
Desirable
- CIPS/IACCM/Commercial qualification
Competencies
The MPS Commercial Function is aligning its roles with the levels of the Government Commercial Organisation, which sits within the Government Commercial Function. In line with the Government Commercial Organisation, the role holder is expected to demonstrate the competencies listed below.
Seeing the Big Picture:
- Adopts an MPS-wide perspective to ensure alignment of activity and policy
- Bring together views and perspectives of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities and policies
Changing & Improving:
- Spot warning signs of things going wrong and provide a decisive response to significant delivery challenges
- Provide constructive challenge to senior management on change proposals which will affect own business area
Leading & Communicating:
- Clarify strategies and plans, communicate purpose and direction with clarity and enthusiasm
- Be open and inviting of the views of others and respond despite pressure to ignore, revert or concede
- Stand by, promote or defend own and team’s actions and decisions where needed
Collaborating & Partnering:
- Work as an effective team player, managing team dynamics when working across MPS Business Units
- Encourage contributions and involvement from a broad and diverse range of staff or stakeholders by being visible and accessible
- Seek constructive outcomes in discussions, challenge assumptions but remain willing to compromise when it is beneficial to progress
Building Capability for All:
- Coach and support colleagues to take responsibility for their own development (through giving accountability, varied assignments and on-going feedback)
- Ensure that individual and organisational learning and talent development opportunities are fully exploited in order to enhance organisational capability
Delivering at Pace:
- Clarify business priorities, roles and responsibilities and secure individual and team ownership
- Act as a role model in supporting and energising teams to build confidence in their ability to deliver outcomes
- Review, challenge and adjust performance levels to ensure quality outcomes are delivered on time, rewarding success
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
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