Commercial Lead, Specialist Role

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Commercial Services
Kilburn, West Brompton, Westminster
KILBURN POLICE STATION , EMPRESS STATE BUILDING
Band U
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Job Title: Commercial Lead, Specialist Role

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.

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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 within the Commercial team, 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 MPS Commercial Function revised its operating model, establishing six Pillars which have overall accountability for activity covering the commercial life cycle, as well as relevant Business Partnering responsibilities across the wider business.

In this role you will be expected to lead on Category Management, contributing to delivering Commercial Excellence for the Met, 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 MPS’s key and strategic suppliers, driving value for money and risk management excellence across the category.

You will play an essential part in leading parts of the overall commercial life cycle, primarily focused on the key aspects of Category Management, including Strategy and Policy development, understanding needs and sourcing options, and the procurement process itself. This will be done through the development and execution of category management strategies, leading supplier negotiations, where needed, and delivering timely and effective support, guidance and expertise to the business. As a leader in the Commercial function, you will support rolling out commercial standards across the organisation.

The MPS Commercial Function is aligning its roles with the levels of the Government Commercial Organisation, which sits within the Government Commercial Function. The typical attributes of a Commercial Lead can be found in the Government Commercial Function People Standards.

A Commercial Lead is broadly defined as: Typically, a commercial manager who provides leadership and management to a small team and actively seeks to build their capability.


Key Responsibilities

What does the average day look like? Your core duties will include (but are not limited to):

  • Strategic delivery and management within a category
  • Understands relevant sourcing options and analysis, and delivers positive outcomes through the procurement process
  • Ensuring effective Commercial Contract and Supplier Management within the category
  • Building and maintaining key relationships across the MPS and with important external stakeholders
  • Enabling and developing the MPS
  • Performance and day-to-day management of category team where applicable
  • Deputise for Head of Category if required
  • Working within a secure environment upon sensitive projects as required

The MPS Commercial Services department is made up of 6 category pillars: Property, IT, Operations, CT & Covert, Vehicles and Corporate and Professional Services. These teams are enabled by the seventh team, Enablement & Performance.

The Specialist role, has responsibility for supporting the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in specialist operational technology / services that directly support policing operations. The accountability sits across the whole commercial lifecycle from category management to contract management including all of the Strategic contracts. The prime stakeholders are within the Met Operations leadership team. This will require an agile and highly capable individual to support the ambition set out to transform the way future commercial activity is delivered. This post requires a minimum vetting level SC/MV.

This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.

Additionally, this material is of particular sensitivity to the UK and its distribution must be restricted to UK nationals. In approved circumstances dual nationals (of which one element is British) may also be granted access. However, in the event that potential conflicts of interest cannot be managed the post holder will not be able to see the intelligence material and will not be able to perform their duties. For the purpose of safeguarding national security and in line with Cabinet Office Policy, supported by Section 82(2) to (4) of the Police Reform Act (2002), applicants who do not hold or acquire Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) OR Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and meet the nationality requirements cannot be offered the post.

Confidentiality Agreement

Applicants should also be aware of the need to sign a confidentiality agreement on taking up the post.

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.

Completed applications must be submitted by 11th 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.


www.metpolicecareers.co.uk


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:

  • Demonstrates strategic thinking, able to identify a vision along with the plans that need to be implemented to achieve the end goal
  • Extensive Category Management experience and knowledge
  • Ability to lead negotiations with suppliers, develop negotiation plans and strategies
  • Excellent understanding of sourcing and procurement methodologies, as well as relevant Public Sector processes, policy and governance
  • Highly effective communicator who can work with a range of senior stakeholders and managers
  • Ability to change and adapt in order to work effectively in a variety of situations
  • Ability to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives
  • Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. You can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workload whilst balancing both operationally urgent and important tasks to deliver to deadlines 
  • A good level of understanding across category discipline
  • Excellent written & oral communication and interpersonal skill
  • Excellent time management and delegation skills
  • Excellent report writing skills
  • Team management

 

Desirable:

  • Ability to understand commercial imperatives and trading relationships

Experience and Qualifications


Essential:


  • A successful career in procurement with typically 4 + years category management experience with demonstrable achievements centred of best value and efficiency via leading edge category solutions

  • A comprehensive understanding EU Procurement Legislation (Public Contract Regulations and Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations
  • Demonstrable ability of using MI from systems to inform decision making and deliver optimum commercial solutions
  • Experience of working at senior levels with internal and external stakeholders
  • Requirement for candidate to pass ADC at Commercial Lead (CL) level.

 


Desirable:


  • Ideally MCIPS/ IACCM or equivalent qualification or working towards

 Competencies


In line with the Government Commercial Organisation, Commercial Leads are 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

 





Commercial Pillar Director

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.

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